I try to rope/shame some friends to join me every few years to work on their core strength with me at the start of the year from Jan 1 to Apr 10 by doing 100 push ups per day. You can do 100 in one shot, so 10 session or 10 through the day whenever it is convenient, 100 sessions of 1…does not matter, just add up to 100, but you can’t skip days or not reach your 100, you have to get all 100 done daily.
Anyone else wanting to join in. Last three years, I slacked off and its showing in core strength decline.
This year my general plan is more weight training and resistance training, but minimally this forces me to have resistance training as part of the portfolio.
If you are starting 3 days late, just go with 103 per day to get to 10,000 by April 10.
Any of you interested. We can reply back to this thread. It’s a different type of 100x100 that requires no time (ten sessions of 20 seconds through day if you are time limited).
Those of you who are advanced can do 100 in one shot on a stand up paddleboard in 6 foot waves…I am sticking to solid ground and 10-30 at a time
My thought on benchpress vs pushups, is push ups is more of a core engagement exercise, and transfers better to running and swimming form. Benchpress does not transfer as well to triathlon (or any sports involving using legs)
Bench press you can target the non core part of the pushup with way more resistance but that’s likely not transferring that well to triathlon racing. Good for other things though. I tend to view pushups more like a core and leg stability thing vs the actual arms and chest part
A few years ago I trained for the 100 push ups plus 50 pull ups for time. You can break them up however you want so i went with 7-20-7-20-7-15-7-15-8-15-7-15-7
As I had to jump around 3/4 foot vertical to get up to the bar and grab it, that also added to the load. Initially I did it around 8 min then got it down to 7.xx and felt I could break 6 min. I ended up at 6:08 but my heart rate got super high for a long time, and at the time I was 56 not 26 and I felt the risk was too high of giving myself a heart attack so I left it at that number and never broke 6 !
Anyway, it turned into the hardest cardio set I ever did in my life. I took 7 months to build up to that. A few weeks ago I did 4x4 pullups, and allthough my lats and shoulders could do more, I had very limited hand and bicep strength to hang onto the bar, and was sore for multiple days after just a few days of doing that, so I am working back with lat pulldowns and doing 5x20 hanging knee raises to work the hand strength while actively using core (which I think is more useful than a dead hang and I hope it also helps a bit with my swim catch since you have to hold the water while engaging the core connection to the feet)
Grip strength is a significant limitation on me doing longer hanging or pull up work. As part of developing a program for yourself - Have you done any squats with full or modified bodyweight and what do you find the benefit of those to be relative to push up etc
I want to think that I have to jump in excess of one foot to get to the bar, and grab them like a monkey, but I fear that it really is only around 8 ft max. May hands reach around 5 inches above a standard door, so that should be around 7 ft, so if the bar is 8 ft high, then I am jumping a bit less than foot. As pathetic as it sounds, doing that jump 7 times inside the set just add the cardio load, but ironically, I am literally the only one i have ever seen at that gym inclusive of all the 19-34 year olds that jumps up and grabs the bar. Everyone else is using a reebok step to get attached.
For context in my youth, I was never able to dunk a basketball, but i could dunk a volleyball, so I could get my entire hand plus another inch above the 10 ft rim. I seriously doubt I could ‘dunk’ a volleyball over that chin up bar !!!
I just did an internet search for vertical jump degradation by age, and I can’t really find anything useful but google gemini is giving me the following:
Thanks I am doing deep squats with just body weight, but it is totally random. Sometimes I will go up and down 5-15 times, other times I will just try to sit there and watch TV. It has helped my calf, glute and lower back tightness and it seems to be helping my pathetically weak breast stroke kick. Basically from standing down to this position (random pic from internet) and back up:
Earlier last year (like in June) I could not do it without knee, calf and back discomfort due to really tight glutes and no hinging capability . Started with holding onto a table in front of me.
