The TFP Push-Up Challenge!!!
 

Somebody gave me an idea this week and I think there are probably some TFPers around here who will join me in this:

Let's collectively do 10,000? No... 50,000?? No... 75,000??? NO... 100,000?!?! NO!!! The approximate number of years the earth has been around push-ups by the end of 2025!

(I think this will be one hell of a quarter century.)

Now, my roommate and I are trying to do this just between the two of us in our own End-of-the-Lease 10,000 Push-Up Challenge, so I'm going to be churning out as many as my little body can produce.

I did some today, so the current total is 60.

Who's with me??? Huh? Huh??? :D :thumbsup:

35...

i think im gonna have a heart attack.

im doing my own personal challenge... NOT have a heart attack by the end of may.

or maybe the 10,000 twinkie challenge..... mmmmmmmmm twinkies

I've been doing 100 per day for the last... 15 years-ish.

When did/does the counting start?

I'll be doing some more at 18:30 (GMT)

50 more. This thread seems like it will be a nightmare to count.

Count me in. I should have some to tally up for tomorrow.

Cool Idea :thumbsup:

anyone on my twinkie count?

im at 3.

Put me down for 130. I will do more each time I see this thread.

40 knucklers. I either need to do this more often or give up completely. :)

Do girl-pushups count? I'm still on my knees.
Ooo, that is gonna cause a fervor.

85 this morning

419 + 85 = 504 so far!

23 more.

It's kind of embarrassing to be doing pushups in your office and have someone walk in and have to tell them that your web forum has a pushup challenge.

I think it was only 415 (those twinkies didn't count) + 85 =500

+ frogza's 32 = 523 so far!

(Thanks for helping with the count, will. Maybe everybody could post the total along with their own contribution to keep the adding manageable?)

:lol:

They most certainly do count, astrahl. Do whatever kind of push-ups you can... it's just important that you're doing them! Please join us!! :)

Also, there are enough people already participating to make the goal number bigger, so 50,000 it is!

50 so far today.

500 + 50 = 550

I just did 50 more.

Oops, guess I need to work on my reading comprehension :p 623!

Way to go! (btw, It's 623)

/me runs off to add to the count...

+200

I've been doing 100 per day for the last couple days and a bit more in the past week (don't know how many though). This is a great thread because I recently started doing push ups fairly intensively. One of my long term goals is to be able to do 100 pushups in one set (Already up to 50. Yeah. I have a small body).

so were @ 623 + Soma's 200 = 823
I just did 27 so:
823
+
27
=
850!!!!


I like this
can we add a situp challenge as well?

Maybe pullups too! I did 50 pullups today.

Okay, I just did a really sad (but difficult) 10. I usually do them with my arms a little wide, but I'm trying to do them off of push-up bars (actually, it's my doorgym on the floor) so that I can get deeper... and that makes my arms have to be closer together than I'm used to. This should get interesting.

NEW TOTAL: 860

Let's make separate threads for the sit-up and pull-up challenges. :)

I did 30 more.

890

Screw doing pullups and crunches though, I hate doing them :p

Another 30, and...yesithinkthatllbeitfortoday.

Situps? At what point does this become abuse? :)

Goddam, i'd totally help out if my shoulder wasn't shot.. :(

When it gets better i'll totally join in.

25 more, but i claim to have spent 2 hours at the gym doing chest and arms so i'm sore, and shit.

so 945 methinks

awesome idea, add another 50 for me :)

995 after Etarip

55 from me brings us to

1050

pretty good for one day

I just did a quick 25 more.

1075

90 for me.

1165 total.

-Tamerlain

knocked out a quick 50. TOTAL=1215

50 here, 1265

125 more

1390

EDIT: I just did 10 more to make it an even 1400.

1400 + 100 = 1500

did 10 out of the goodness of my heart (imagine what my arms could do):
[B]1510

Muscle failure at 38... I blame the previous 5.5 hours working at FedEx Ground. :)

50 more. 1598 total. Ow. I predict a reduced participation tomorrow.

Ow. This gets harder and harder. Just squeezed out 27. May have to give myself a day or two to recover...

1598 + 27 = 1625

1625 + 85 = 1710

Hah! It stops hurting so much when you switch to decline or incline and use different muscles.

1710 + 20 = 1730

ha! 1730+100=1830

1830+200 = 2030

2030+50=2080


47920 to go :)

2080+30=2110


47890 to go.

Oh my God. I haven't done pushups in..well, I don't remember the last time I did pushups. I just did 35, even though they were girl ones :p

2145 now.

I know what you mean.

35 more. 2180 now. I'll be very happy to get beyond the first week.

30 more. 2210 now.

2210 + 140 = 2350

Great job everyone!!! Glad to see everybody rising to the challenge.

2350 + 50 = 2400

2400 + 30 = 2430

I'm wore out today. :lol:

13 then drank a twelve pack. nice

2443

2443 + 40 = 2483

Oomph.

2483+50 = 2533

2533 + 30 = 2563

Hopefully, each day I can do 10-20 more and then I will be like the Incredible Hulk, without the green and the insane rage problem.

:lol: That's the idea!

Did a quick 10 before bed last night -->

2563 + 10 = 2573

We here at chez Nakamura are doing out part to support this worth cause!

Gilda: 0 [broken arm]
Sissy: 2 [can't build upper body strenght]
Grace: 48 [stopped there to give the household an even number]

Total: 50

Gilda

PS: This being my account, I get credit for all 50 :D.

Add 5 pushups for me... that's as far as i got :)

sweetpea

+102

2730

a passing 20 for the round number.

2750

50 more.

Making 2800 the running total.

45 more = 2845

I can add another 100 for Friday. Saturday and Sunday are my days off.

2945

+55

3000!

+30.....

3030

+40 = 3070

did 1 today, i'm skyiing.

3071

I did 29
wo were at
3100

yikes, forgot update, see below

Me=0
Sissy did one--couldn't quite get number two all the way back up.
Grace=49
Total=50

3100+50=3150

Gilda

53 more. Tried going past 50 and didn't get too far. Damn arms are too long. :)

3203

20 more, arms sore from gym yesterday, 21 and over just not happenin...

3223

3223 + 50 = 3273

I'll try to add some more before bed.

3273+27

3300

3300 + 6

i got farther than 5 today :p

3306

sweetpea

34 more... saving the rest of my energy for work tonight. :P

3340

i do 430 push ups 4 times a week, so if you count last night and tonight that's 860 more for a total of 2430

(in case you are wondering i do 10 sets of 35 pushups and then immediately do a round of bicep curls, take a 15 to 30 second break and then do the next set. when i am done the 10 sets i then do 10 sets of 10 with a 10 to 20 second break between sets (5 deep breaths between each set) it hurts but its good)

edit: i didn't get to the end of the thread so adjust the count accordingly, whoops!

3340 + Kewpie Dan's 860 = 4200

Only 30 for me today & yesterday, bringing the current total to 4230!

25 more.

4255

Did a quick 5 here at the office. I just feel the need to participate :D

4260

4260 + 140 = 4400

You animals!
+30 = 4430

I'll hit it again after I get some coffee. *grog*

+30 - I'll send some more your way tomorrow!

+30 for shoegirl and +150 for me = 4610

Oops! Forgot to post over the past 5 days...let's see 85 x 5 = 425.
4610 + 425 = 5035

5035+35= 5070

5070+50 = 5120

30 for me

5150

20 quick ones for me

5170

Another 40.
5210

i did 25 more
so now were at
5235

5235 + 300 = 5535

I just did 45 more so....

5580

man where do you all get the time to do 200+ a day?
are those all in one sequence? or spread throughout the day?

Temporary_User: i do 'em all in a row, usually just before i go to bed. mind you it takes me 45 minutes to get through the whole thing though, but it's been something i've been working up to for the last year or so.

Me=1 (Grace held me up so I could at least get one in)
Sissy=1
Grace=48
Total=50

5580 + 50 = 5630

Gilda

5630+50=5680

+45 = 5725

+5

I am lazy today.

5730

The lazy bug is hard to fight off sometimes...

20 for me so far today.

5730 + 20 = 5750

40 for me
5790

7 more. (better than 6... ) :D

5790 + 7 =

5797

sweetpea

+10. my arms are sore from the gym!

we're up to 5807!

another 430 for me.

for a grand total of ....6237!