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The premise is that 1) Push ups are good for you, and 2) if you stick to it, you can eventually do 100 push ups in a single sitting. 100 push ups sounds kinda intimidating, but it's a nice round goal to shoot for.

Of course I realize push ups are good for you, but, I've always had low upper body strength, and now that I'm older, fatter, and have a sedentary desk job, I have REALLY low upper body strength. But, the more I read through the site, the more intrigued I became. It's nothing new really, you do your push ups in stages, building little by little until after about 6 weeks or so, you should be able to rattle off 100. The site has the entire 6 week program laid out in PDFs that you can download and print if you desire.

It's fairly straight forward, you rattle off as many good ones as you can to start with, and that sets your baseline level. Then based on that, you follow a preplanned sequence for 2 weeks, 3x/week. After the second week, you again test and see where your new baseline is, then that sets the tone for the next 2 weeks. Rinse and repeat for weeks 5-6. At the end of 6 weeks, your test is to try to do 100 in a setting. At any of the test points if you can't do the minimum baseline for the next set of weeks, you go back and redo the previous week until you can. Each set consists of anywhere from 5-8 sets of push ups with prescribed rest periods anywhere from 30-120 seconds between sets.

So, yes, I'm going to try this challenge. I'll try to see it all the way through. I'm not expecting a miracle, but what the hell, it costs me nothing but my own sweat, and I've got nothing to lose but a few pounds, and a lot to gain. There is one caveat though, I'm gone to Japan from July 23-August 3, which would kinda cut right into weeks 3-5, but I figure I can either pick up where I left off, or start again, but I figure starting now is worth it rather than waiting another month and a half to start.