100pushups

I think that's pretty good. Even when I was young and in shape I couldn't do many straight pushups. My arms have always been weak in comparison with the rest of my body, no matter how much weight lifting I do. - Spidra Webster

I'm with you on the weak arms. :-( A few years ago I could do 4 sets of 10, though. 100 seems crazy, though. - Jeanine W.

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I'm so sore today! - orionstarr

for the record, I did 4 pushups in my initial test. - Nathalie

How is it going so far? :) - Lix

um. well. I haven't started. I suck. - Nathalie

Did 30 last night before running, will add 10 more tonight. - orionstarr

Because doing push ups, or weight lifting helps build your chest muscles, also helps expand your lungs. In turn helps with your running. Make sense to you? I thought you were being sarcastic with me:) - orionstarr

Good on you! I've forgotten to do mine since last Friday by the looks of it. Keep it up! - Andrew Trinh

There's also the push ups logger below, which will help with you keeping track of your progress. - Andrew Trinh

Oooh, ta Andrew! - Bec Rowe @d0tski

Cool! 26 is pretty good for the initial test. Good luck. :) - Erica Mauter

You are inspiring me. - Russellreno

I'm glad, give it a shot and you can only get better! - Andrew Trinh

Wow! I hit a hundred push ups in my last set! I was doing them in groups of 20, pause then continue. Pushing on (no pun intended) for another 2 weeks to try and do 100 straight push ups. - Andrew Trinh

You're gonna hit that 100 no problem. You could probably do it now. - Erica Mauter

FWIW, I did the whole thing doing knee push-ups. - Erica Mauter

well that would work too! i start holding my breath around 15. - Krista K

Knee push ups are still better than no push ups at all! Keep it up and work on it, soon you'll be able to do them all off your knees! - Andrew Trinh

Nice job! - Erica Mauter