One Hundred Push Ups: The Final Test (Take Tre)

Push Ups (max out on every set):

30

(5 min break)

40

(5 min break)

50

(5 min break)

65

(6 min break)

40

(10 min break)

62

(7 min break)

42

Sadly, no personal records were broken tonight. The heart was there. But the body was not. I actually didn’t start to give it my all until the 4th set (which would explain the 30, 40, 50 set pattern). By then, I just kept going further and further, waiting for that endurance magic to show up so I could kick it into overdrive. But alas, it never came. So in the end, I just went for a personal cumulative high: 329 in 7 sets.

I don’t know what went wrong. Maybe I should have gone 100% in the first 3 sets as well. Or perhaps I shouldn’t have eaten all of that poutine an hour before I took the test (all of the dreamy fat and grease may have made me a bit sluggish). Either way, nothing of significance to report tonight. My all-time high in consecutive push ups is still 80. I’m afraid it might stay there for a little while.