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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???

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barenakedladies

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

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jwoody

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)

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Toaster126

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

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samcol

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

Cool Idea

barenakedladies

anyone on my twinkie count?

im at 3.

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frogza

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

cyrnel

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

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astrahl

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

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Willravel

85 this morning

419 + 85 = 504 so far!

frogza

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.

Supple Cow

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?)

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Supple Cow

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!

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Carno

50 so far today.

500 + 50 = 550

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Carno

I just did 50 more.

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

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Supple Cow

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

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

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soma

+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).

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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?

Carno

Maybe pullups too! I did 50 pullups today.

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Supple Cow

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.

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Carno

I did 30 more.

890

Screw doing pullups and crunches though, I hate doing them

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cyrnel

Another 30, and...yesithinkthatllbeitfortoday.

Situps? At what point does this become abuse?

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Siege

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

When it gets better i'll totally join in.

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qweds

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

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Etarip

awesome idea, add another 50 for me

ubertuber

995 after Etarip

55 from me brings us to

1050

pretty good for one day

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Temporary_User

I just did a quick 25 more.

1075

Tamerlain

90 for me.

1165 total.

-Tamerlain

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Bobaphat

knocked out a quick 50. TOTAL=1215

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Paq

50 here, 1265

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Carno

125 more

1390

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

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soma

1400 + 100 = 1500

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sentimental_arm

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

Toaster126

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

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cyrnel

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

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Supple Cow

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

1598 + 27 = 1625

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Willravel

1625 + 85 = 1710

Supple Cow

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

1710 + 20 = 1730

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Etarip

ha! 1730+100=1830

samcol

1830+200 = 2030