The first rule of push-up club
is don’t mention it on a blog. Doh.
At work a few co-workers and were talking about push-ups and we decided to hold a contest where the first person who can do 100 push-ups in a single set will win the grand prize consisting of $5 from everyone that enters (similar to Eric’s, although now that I re-read and saw his is $20 a person, I feel cheap). We are going to start a baseline test in two weeks where everyone will do push-ups until failure. Every Monday we will run another test, and whoever has made the highest percentage gain over their previous max will get $1 from everyone. This way it keeps people motivated even if there overall numbers don’t lead them to be in the running for the big prize.
I’ll consider it a personal victory if I can eventually hit 50, since the most I’ve done as an adult is 40. I did 20 push-ups today while we were talking about the contest. I didn’t quite go to failure, but I am pretty sure I couldn’t have gone past 25. As a historical footnote, I did 55 push-ups once in high-school Spanish class, to avoid administrative punishment for having skipped a class. I had trouble moving my arms for the rest of the day.
January 3rd, 2009 at 3:16 am
This is awesome man. I’m curious to see how it goes for you. I’m up to 28 as of last Sunday. But, I test again this Sunday and I’m guessing I’ll be in the mid 30′s. Now that I’m in a contest, I’m actually doing them very consistently. I hope it has the same effect for you.