December Pushup and Sit-Up Challenge

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  • djspacecaptain
    djspacecaptain Posts: 366 Member
    1,500 crunches takes about 25 to 30 minutes. I do them 500 at a time 3 times in between my workout
  • dawnbgethealthy
    dawnbgethealthy Posts: 7,894 Member
    Dec 01 - 25 push-ups
    Dec 02 - 25 push-ups
    Dec 03 - 25 push-ups
    Dec 04 - 25 push-ups
    Dec 05 - 25 push-ups
    Dec 06 - Missed!
    Dec 07 - 25 push-ups
    Dec 08 - 25 push-ups, the last 5 were a real challenge! (still from my knees, maybe getting down a bit lower)
    Dec 09 - 25 push-ups
    Dec 10 - 25 push-ups
    Dec 11 - 25 push-ups
    Dec 12 - 25 push-ups - I really am not getting better at this.
    Dec 13 - 25 push-ups
    Dec 14 - 25 push-ups. I sure can't get very close to the ground!
    Dec 15 - Totally meant to do them after Zumba class yesterday (15th) but never got around to it.
    Dec 16 - 25 push-ups
    Dec 17 - 25 push-ups.
    Dec 18 -
    Dec 19 - Pretty sure that I missed yesterday, so I did 50 push-ups today
    Dec 20 - 25 push-ups
    Dec 21 -
    Dec 22 -
    Dec 23 -
    Dec 24 -
    Dec 25 -
    Dec 26 -
    Dec 27 -
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  • nossmf
    nossmf Posts: 11,630 Member
    Very glad to see every poster in this thread working to improve themselves. Doesn't matter if you are doing 10 or 10,000 per day, if you keep doing what you can you are moving one step closer to the person you want to be. As Benjamin Franklin once said,

    "If you do today what others won't, you'll do tomorrow what others can't."

    Even small amounts add up over time. Dawn is lamenting "I really am not getting better at this" yet she really is, whether she realizes it or not. Is she doing 100 at a time? Of course not, yet she has already logged 450 this month alone, which is probably more than she's done in a long time combined! Just like a diet will have many internal impacts before anything is seen externally, so too are each of you improving in ways you may not be able to see but are every bit as real.

    Thank you to machavin for citing me as an inspiration, but I will raise a glass to each of you as also being inspiring in turn. (Hmm...glass of water for a fitness forum? Glass of eggnog for the holiday season? lol So many choices!)
  • dawnbgethealthy
    dawnbgethealthy Posts: 7,894 Member
    Dec 01 - 25 push-ups
    Dec 02 - 25 push-ups
    Dec 03 - 25 push-ups
    Dec 04 - 25 push-ups
    Dec 05 - 25 push-ups
    Dec 06 - Missed!
    Dec 07 - 25 push-ups
    Dec 08 - 25 push-ups, the last 5 were a real challenge! (still from my knees, maybe getting down a bit lower)
    Dec 09 - 25 push-ups
    Dec 10 - 25 push-ups
    Dec 11 - 25 push-ups
    Dec 12 - 25 push-ups - I really am not getting better at this.
    Dec 13 - 25 push-ups
    Dec 14 - 25 push-ups. I sure can't get very close to the ground!
    Dec 15 - Totally meant to do them after Zumba class yesterday (15th) but never got around to it.
    Dec 16 - 25 push-ups
    Dec 17 - 25 push-ups.
    Dec 18 -
    Dec 19 - Pretty sure that I missed yesterday, so I did 50 push-ups today
    Dec 20 - 25 push-ups
    Dec 21 - 25 push-ups
    Dec 22 -
    Dec 23 -
    Dec 24 -
    Dec 25 -
    Dec 26 -
    Dec 27 -
    Dec 28 -
    Dec 29 -
    Dec 30 -
    Dec 31 -
  • dawnbgethealthy
    dawnbgethealthy Posts: 7,894 Member
    nossmf wrote: »
    Very glad to see every poster in this thread working to improve themselves. Doesn't matter if you are doing 10 or 10,000 per day, if you keep doing what you can you are moving one step closer to the person you want to be. As Benjamin Franklin once said,

    "If you do today what others won't, you'll do tomorrow what others can't."

    Even small amounts add up over time. Dawn is lamenting "I really am not getting better at this" yet she really is, whether she realizes it or not. Is she doing 100 at a time? Of course not, yet she has already logged 450 this month alone, which is probably more than she's done in a long time combined! Just like a diet will have many internal impacts before anything is seen externally, so too are each of you improving in ways you may not be able to see but are every bit as real.

    Thank you to machavin for citing me as an inspiration, but I will raise a glass to each of you as also being inspiring in turn. (Hmm...glass of water for a fitness forum? Glass of eggnog for the holiday season? lol So many choices!)

    Thanks for that nossmf : - )
    I have always been fairly strong in the lower body (skating etc.) but I really do suck at push-ups : - )
    It is good to have this challenge to get them in every day. I definitely feel lots of spots getting stronger from doing them, but I do them from my knees and don't get even close to the ground. If it weren't for this challenge I would never do them.
    Fitness forum or otherwise, I will soon be making a big pot of mulled wine for over the holidays, so cheers!
  • djspacecaptain
    djspacecaptain Posts: 366 Member
    Yesterday : 0

    21st : push ups 200
    Crunches 1,500

    Total : pushups : 950
    Crunches: 9,000
  • djspacecaptain
    djspacecaptain Posts: 366 Member
    22nd : pushups 200
    Crunches 1,500

    Total : pushups 1,150
    Crunches 10,500
  • dawnbgethealthy
    dawnbgethealthy Posts: 7,894 Member
    Dec 01 - 25 push-ups
    Dec 02 - 25 push-ups
    Dec 03 - 25 push-ups
    Dec 04 - 25 push-ups
    Dec 05 - 25 push-ups
    Dec 06 - Missed!
    Dec 07 - 25 push-ups
    Dec 08 - 25 push-ups, the last 5 were a real challenge! (still from my knees, maybe getting down a bit lower)
    Dec 09 - 25 push-ups
    Dec 10 - 25 push-ups
    Dec 11 - 25 push-ups
    Dec 12 - 25 push-ups - I really am not getting better at this.
    Dec 13 - 25 push-ups
    Dec 14 - 25 push-ups. I sure can't get very close to the ground!
    Dec 15 - Totally meant to do them after Zumba class yesterday (15th) but never got around to it.
    Dec 16 - 25 push-ups
    Dec 17 - 25 push-ups.
    Dec 18 -
    Dec 19 - Pretty sure that I missed yesterday, so I did 50 push-ups today
    Dec 20 - 25 push-ups
    Dec 21 - 25 push-ups
    Dec 22 - Not sure if I got them in yesterday after Zumba class or not, I really have to post immediately to be sure.
    Dec 23 - 25 push-ups
    Dec 24 -
    Dec 25 -
    Dec 26 -
    Dec 27 -
    Dec 28 -
    Dec 29 -
    Dec 30 -
    Dec 31 -
  • salleewins
    salleewins Posts: 2,308 Member
    10 pushups, 100 crunches/ab work
  • salleewins
    salleewins Posts: 2,308 Member
    On the 21st== 10 pushups, 200 ab work/crunches
  • djspacecaptain
    djspacecaptain Posts: 366 Member
    24th : pushups 200
    Crunches 1,500

    Total : pushups 1,350
    Crunches 12,000
  • dawnbgethealthy
    dawnbgethealthy Posts: 7,894 Member
    I do dance abs, which amounts to many crunches, albeit standing/dancing. I don't count them as I do them, one of the trainers that I follow sometimes says things like "we have already done the equivalent to 500 crunches".
    Adding in push-ups is really great.

    Dec 01 - 25 push-ups
    Dec 02 - 25 push-ups
    Dec 03 - 25 push-ups
    Dec 04 - 25 push-ups
    Dec 05 - 25 push-ups
    Dec 06 - Missed!
    Dec 07 - 25 push-ups
    Dec 08 - 25 push-ups, the last 5 were a real challenge! (still from my knees, maybe getting down a bit lower)
    Dec 09 - 25 push-ups
    Dec 10 - 25 push-ups
    Dec 11 - 25 push-ups
    Dec 12 - 25 push-ups - I really am not getting better at this.
    Dec 13 - 25 push-ups
    Dec 14 - 25 push-ups. I sure can't get very close to the ground!
    Dec 15 - Totally meant to do them after Zumba class yesterday (15th) but never got around to it.
    Dec 16 - 25 push-ups
    Dec 17 - 25 push-ups.
    Dec 18 -
    Dec 19 - Pretty sure that I missed yesterday, so I did 50 push-ups today
    Dec 20 - 25 push-ups
    Dec 21 - 25 push-ups
    Dec 22 - Not sure if I got them in yesterday after Zumba class or not, I really have to post immediately to be sure.
    Dec 23 - 25 push-ups
    Dec 24 - 25 push-ups
    Dec 25 - 25 push-ups
    Dec 26 -
    Dec 27 -
    Dec 28 -
    Dec 29 -
    Dec 30 -
    Dec 31 -
  • dawnbgethealthy
    dawnbgethealthy Posts: 7,894 Member
    I do dance abs, which amounts to many crunches, albeit standing/dancing. I don't count them as I do them, one of the trainers that I follow sometimes says things like "we have already done the equivalent to 500 crunches".
    Adding in push-ups is really great.

    Dec 01 - 25 push-ups
    Dec 02 - 25 push-ups
    Dec 03 - 25 push-ups
    Dec 04 - 25 push-ups
    Dec 05 - 25 push-ups
    Dec 06 - Missed!
    Dec 07 - 25 push-ups
    Dec 08 - 25 push-ups, the last 5 were a real challenge! (still from my knees, maybe getting down a bit lower)
    Dec 09 - 25 push-ups
    Dec 10 - 25 push-ups
    Dec 11 - 25 push-ups
    Dec 12 - 25 push-ups - I really am not getting better at this.
    Dec 13 - 25 push-ups
    Dec 14 - 25 push-ups. I sure can't get very close to the ground!
    Dec 15 - Totally meant to do them after Zumba class yesterday (15th) but never got around to it.
    Dec 16 - 25 push-ups
    Dec 17 - 25 push-ups.
    Dec 18 -
    Dec 19 - Pretty sure that I missed yesterday, so I did 50 push-ups today
    Dec 20 - 25 push-ups
    Dec 21 - 25 push-ups
    Dec 22 - Not sure if I got them in yesterday after Zumba class or not, I really have to post immediately to be sure.
    Dec 23 - 25 push-ups
    Dec 24 - 25 push-ups
    Dec 25 - 25 push-ups
    Dec 26 - 25 push-ups. They really felt good today. Nice to work all of those under-used muscles. I know that I will get stronger if I continue this daily.
    Dec 27 -
    Dec 28 -
    Dec 29 -
    Dec 30 -
    Dec 31 -
  • alexmose
    alexmose Posts: 792 Member
    Is there a January thread for this already?
  • djspacecaptain
    djspacecaptain Posts: 366 Member
    26th : pushups 220
    Crunches 1,500

    Total: pushups 1,570
    Crunches 13,500
  • djspacecaptain
    djspacecaptain Posts: 366 Member
    26th : pushups 220
    Crunches 1,500

    Total: pushups 1,570
    Crunches 13,500
  • dawnbgethealthy
    dawnbgethealthy Posts: 7,894 Member
    Dec 01 - 25 push-ups
    Dec 02 - 25 push-ups
    Dec 03 - 25 push-ups
    Dec 04 - 25 push-ups
    Dec 05 - 25 push-ups
    Dec 06 - Missed!
    Dec 07 - 25 push-ups
    Dec 08 - 25 push-ups, the last 5 were a real challenge! (still from my knees, maybe getting down a bit lower)
    Dec 09 - 25 push-ups
    Dec 10 - 25 push-ups
    Dec 11 - 25 push-ups
    Dec 12 - 25 push-ups - I really am not getting better at this.
    Dec 13 - 25 push-ups
    Dec 14 - 25 push-ups. I sure can't get very close to the ground!
    Dec 15 - Totally meant to do them after Zumba class yesterday (15th) but never got around to it.
    Dec 16 - 25 push-ups
    Dec 17 - 25 push-ups.
    Dec 18 -
    Dec 19 - Pretty sure that I missed yesterday, so I did 50 push-ups today
    Dec 20 - 25 push-ups
    Dec 21 - 25 push-ups
    Dec 22 - Not sure if I got them in yesterday after Zumba class or not, I really have to post immediately to be sure.
    Dec 23 - 25 push-ups
    Dec 24 - 25 push-ups
    Dec 25 - 25 push-ups
    Dec 26 - 25 push-ups. They really felt good today. Nice to work all of those under-used muscles. I know that I will get stronger if I continue this daily.
    Dec 27 - 25 push-ups. Didn't feel like it today, but banged them out.
    Dec 28 -
    Dec 29 -
    Dec 30 -
    Dec 31 -
  • djspacecaptain
    djspacecaptain Posts: 366 Member
    27th : pushups 220
    Crunches 1,500

    Total : pushups 1,790
    Crunches 15,000
  • djspacecaptain
    djspacecaptain Posts: 366 Member
    28th : pushups 220
    Crunches 1,500

    Total : pushups 2,010
    Crunches 16,500
  • salleewins
    salleewins Posts: 2,308 Member
    crunches-30. Can't do push-ups for now, even on the wall as they are bothering my neck into the shoulder where I am being treated for a 20 year or so old pinched nerve as a result of an injury. So I will try to strengthen other ways.
  • salleewins
    salleewins Posts: 2,308 Member
    alexmose wrote: »
    Is there a January thread for this already?

    Not that I know of. Just jump in if you want!
  • dawnbgethealthy
    dawnbgethealthy Posts: 7,894 Member
    Dec 01 - 25 push-ups
    Dec 02 - 25 push-ups
    Dec 03 - 25 push-ups
    Dec 04 - 25 push-ups
    Dec 05 - 25 push-ups
    Dec 06 - Missed!
    Dec 07 - 25 push-ups
    Dec 08 - 25 push-ups, the last 5 were a real challenge! (still from my knees, maybe getting down a bit lower)
    Dec 09 - 25 push-ups
    Dec 10 - 25 push-ups
    Dec 11 - 25 push-ups
    Dec 12 - 25 push-ups - I really am not getting better at this.
    Dec 13 - 25 push-ups
    Dec 14 - 25 push-ups. I sure can't get very close to the ground!
    Dec 15 - Totally meant to do them after Zumba class yesterday (15th) but never got around to it.
    Dec 16 - 25 push-ups
    Dec 17 - 25 push-ups.
    Dec 18 -
    Dec 19 - Pretty sure that I missed yesterday, so I did 50 push-ups today
    Dec 20 - 25 push-ups
    Dec 21 - 25 push-ups
    Dec 22 - Not sure if I got them in yesterday after Zumba class or not, I really have to post immediately to be sure.
    Dec 23 - 25 push-ups
    Dec 24 - 25 push-ups
    Dec 25 - 25 push-ups
    Dec 26 - 25 push-ups. They really felt good today. Nice to work all of those under-used muscles. I know that I will get stronger if I continue this daily.
    Dec 27 - 25 push-ups. Didn't feel like it today, but banged them out.
    Dec 28 - Not sure if I got them in or not.
    Dec 29 - 25 push-ups
    Dec 30 -
    Dec 31 -
  • djspacecaptain
    djspacecaptain Posts: 366 Member
    29th : pushups 220
    Crunches 1,500

    Total : pushups 2,230
    Crunches 18,000
  • dawnbgethealthy
    dawnbgethealthy Posts: 7,894 Member
    Dec 01 - 25 push-ups
    Dec 02 - 25 push-ups
    Dec 03 - 25 push-ups
    Dec 04 - 25 push-ups
    Dec 05 - 25 push-ups
    Dec 06 - Missed!
    Dec 07 - 25 push-ups
    Dec 08 - 25 push-ups, the last 5 were a real challenge! (still from my knees, maybe getting down a bit lower)
    Dec 09 - 25 push-ups
    Dec 10 - 25 push-ups
    Dec 11 - 25 push-ups
    Dec 12 - 25 push-ups - I really am not getting better at this.
    Dec 13 - 25 push-ups
    Dec 14 - 25 push-ups. I sure can't get very close to the ground!
    Dec 15 - Totally meant to do them after Zumba class yesterday (15th) but never got around to it.
    Dec 16 - 25 push-ups
    Dec 17 - 25 push-ups.
    Dec 18 -
    Dec 19 - Pretty sure that I missed yesterday, so I did 50 push-ups today
    Dec 20 - 25 push-ups
    Dec 21 - 25 push-ups
    Dec 22 - Not sure if I got them in yesterday after Zumba class or not, I really have to post immediately to be sure.
    Dec 23 - 25 push-ups
    Dec 24 - 25 push-ups
    Dec 25 - 25 push-ups
    Dec 26 - 25 push-ups. They really felt good today. Nice to work all of those under-used muscles. I know that I will get stronger if I continue this daily.
    Dec 27 - 25 push-ups. Didn't feel like it today, but banged them out.
    Dec 28 - Not sure if I got them in or not.
    Dec 29 - 25 push-ups
    Dec 30 - 25 push-ups
    Dec 31 -
  • djspacecaptain
    djspacecaptain Posts: 366 Member
    30th : pushups 200
    Crunches 1,500

    Total : pushups 2,430
    Crunches 19,500
  • djspacecaptain
    djspacecaptain Posts: 366 Member
    31st : pushups 120
    Crunches 1,000

    Total : pushups 2,550
    Crunches 20,500
  • Machafin
    Machafin Posts: 2,988 Member
    Hey guys! Back from my hiatus, finger is doing much better. About to create a new thread for 2019! Keep up the good work!