HundredPushups.com

I took a look at the website HundredPushups.com (that my friend mentioned in the comments of one of my previous posts). The site looked interesting. It's marketed as a 6-week program to do 100 consecutive push-ups (which seemed like a scam to me), but if you read in the details, it specifies that you will probably have to repeat weeks multiple times. I decided to do the initial test yesterday and was able to do 10 consecutive push-ups. This put me in group 2 to start. I figured I would give it a shot.

One thing to note, though. It's better to be able to do a max in the upper range of your group. If you can do a max of 6-10, you're in group 2. But, if you could only do 6, how are you supposed to do sets of 7-7-5-4-5? How can you do 7 in a row if you can only do 6? So, while I see some flaws in the plan, on the whole, the idea is good. I don't care about being able to do 100 in a row. But, 20 would be nice to be able to do. And, maybe 30 one day. It would be a great morning routing to do 20 push-ups each morning.

So, today I started day one of the program, and I successfully completed it (7-7-5-4-5). I'm going to try to do push-ups on Mon, Wed, and Fri mornings. One issue, though, is that on the 4th set my left wrist started hurting. I went ahead and finished up anyway, but I'm going to have to figure something out. I might need to modify the program or something. I might try to find a message board online about it to see if there are things to do for that. Surely I'm not the first person to experience it.

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Hmmm... Found a good site: http://forum.bodybuilding.com/archive/index.php?t-2899201.html

I might try some forearm/wrist curls, doing push-ups from dumb bells, or knuckle push-ups. Probably, I'll start with knuckle push-ups while wearing gloves and will incorporate some wrist curls in my strength training. I'll see if that helps.