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Old 1st February 2018, 22:52
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Default Re: You up for it? 100 push ups and 50 pull ups a day for 1 month challenge

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@AJF79 Sounds great. How are you finding the running, has it got a lot easier over time? How long does it take you to do 5 miles? Don't wait 20 years. I'm assuming this is when your retire, is there anyway you can do it sooner?
I am from the country so enjoy hiking in the hills/mountains. In winter months, the treadmill is handy. Exercise is good, and certainly makes you feel good, both physically and mentally! I can walk five miles in 1hr 15mins and can run 5km which is around 3 miles in 30 minutes. I also drink 2 litres of water per day which is easier said than done, roughly four pints. I can go now! I have the money but I have family needs to sort out first, e.g. parents getting old and I want to get daughters through university and settled first before I think of myself.
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Old 3rd February 2018, 12:39
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I finished this on wednesday. Honestly, my body is crying out for a break. In the end I was doing 150 push ups, 60 pull ups, and 100 squats daily. I took 3 days off in total. The workout itself isn't hard, but doing them every day was tough. Especially in the winter mornings, that was crazy. And I think I've got a non-w@nking related wrist injury. But once I completed them each morning, I genuinely felt great afterwards.

I've reduced my body fat, that is clear to see. My upper body muscles are feeling fuller.

I'm going to take about 5 days break, then on monday im going to continue with my heavier weighted calisthenics routine.

@Change87 - Thanks for your support in this thread, it didn't go unnoticed.

@candlelight - I used to do sprint HIIT back in the day, I wish I could go back to doing them, they are by far the most brutal workouts I've ever done, I've puked up after on a couple of occassions. I feel like vomitting just thinking about them. They are by far the best exercise for shredding body fat and getting super fit in a relatively short space of time. It's the king. Hill sprints too.
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Old 5th February 2018, 14:44
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I went to an athletics track this morning and ran a 400m sprint. And I signed up to their gym.
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Old 2nd March 2018, 17:42
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I've been getting into doing press-ups this week. I started with 4 a few times at the start of the week, now up to 6, doing them every 1:30-2 hours
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Old 2nd March 2018, 21:50
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^ Cool bro. You should Google 'grease the groove'. It's not about w@nking, I swear. A lot of people have had great success with this method, and it works really well with press ups.
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Old 3rd March 2018, 05:00
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Oh yeah I remember hearing about that years ago, it's actually what I'm doing I just didn't realise that's what it was
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Old 5th March 2018, 03:16
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Wearing spandex........Check

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Ok, let’s do this!!!!!!!!!!





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Old 5th March 2018, 05:04
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Old 26th December 2018, 16:14
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Anyone up for this (or something similar/something more suited to your individual level) starting 1st Jan for 30 days straight (or even 5-6 days a week for 4 weeks)?

I like to start the year with some solid conditioning work to counter the mega Xmas binge.

Who's up for it?

No gym required.
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Old 26th December 2018, 16:28
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i'll do what I can
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Old 26th December 2018, 16:48
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I'll be up for that, definatly need to counter the christmas binge. How many push ups per set and how many sets etc?
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Old 26th December 2018, 16:55
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^ Sup to you really. Because you're doing it daily, no need to reach failure on any set. As long as you reach the daily target. For example, 10x10 or 5 x20. Or if you find push ups really hard you can do 20x5 if you really want to.

Personally I'd say each set do about 50-70% of your 1 set max. (If you can do 30 Push ups max on a single set, aim for around 15-20 push ups each set).
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Old 26th December 2018, 16:58
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Okay what bout rest days in between or is there no need?
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Old 26th December 2018, 17:02
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It's up to you. Personally I'm going to aim to do this 6-7 days a week. But listen to your body, take day off if you feel it. Or if you can power through it, then do, as it's only a 30 day challenge.

I'm gonna be doing the same as last year....

100 Push ups
50 pull ups
100 squat tuck jumps.

Daily.
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Old 26th December 2018, 17:26
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I want to start a daily workout as I'll no longer be walking to and from work or running up and down stairs, so I'll be short of 11k steps per day and I'm getting fat as it is.

I think I'll do 30 days on my rowing machine, since this has always been the most difficult exercise for me, I don't think I've ever managed more than 3-4 minutes. I'd like to try to build it up.
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Old 26th December 2018, 17:45
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I want to start a daily workout as I'll no longer be walking too and from work or running up and down stairs, so I'll be short of 11k steps per day and I'm getting fat as it is.

I think I'll do 30 days on my rowing machine, since this has always been the most difficult exercise for me, I don't think I've ever managed more than 3-4 minutes. I'd like to try to build it up.
That's awesome, rowing machine is tough. I got a 30 day challenge for you....

Day one do your rowing for 3 mins and increase it by 1 min each day. So day 2 do 4 mins, day 3 do 5 mins, etc... So by day 30 you'd be doing it for 32 mins, which is actually insane for a rowing machine, but you'd have made tiny incremental increases each day, your body can easily adapt to 60 secsonds increases each day, and you become fitter after only 30 days, which is a really short time.

And imo, rowing for 20-30 mins is tougher than running for 20-30mins.
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Old 26th December 2018, 20:12
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That's awesome, rowing machine is tough. I got a 30 day challenge for you....
Sounds like a plan, let's see if I can make 3 minutes lol
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Old 1st January 2019, 09:04
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Anyone starting today?

Not gonna lie, I can't be @rsed. Plus I need a couple more days to recover from a neck injury.
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Old 1st January 2019, 14:38
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I did some cardio and rowing the day before yesterday, but couldn't manage any yesterday, so did weight lifting instead. I'll see if I can do some more today.

I've started logging all my food intake and am working to 2000cals, 60g fat, 200g protein and maybe 200-300g carbs. I put in a big Tesco delivery today that should be good for this split.
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Old 1st January 2019, 18:47
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^ Got your macros figured, you ain't f'king about bro. Nice one. I agree with the calories as well if fat loss is your primary goal.
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Old 4th January 2019, 13:19
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Just did 1600 meters in one 6 minute period on the rower.

I'm so pumped, I've been failing to hit 3 lots of 2 minutes rowing 500m with 3 minute breaks, so this is awesome to me.
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Old 4th January 2019, 16:41
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^ Nice one mate. Really glad to hear that.
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