1/31/2026
Hey look I got an 8 minute buffer for next month!
Monthly totals besides minutes:
945 miles
35892 feet of ascent.
1 month down, 11 to go.
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You climbed Mauna Kea from the ocean floor and another 2k for good measure. Strong work!
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A little more than halfway up Mons Olympus on Mars
Working on minimal sleep, just the reps today
100 / 100 / 200
Cumulative:
Pushups: 2,100
Body weight squats: 2,250
Abs/core reps: 4,500
1/31 - day 30
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Yesterday, 1/31:
45 minute spin. Finished 32 consecutive days of spinning for 30 minutes or more.
200 pushups
200 core reps.
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2/1: 30 minute strength
100 core reps
1 mile treadmill walk
Week totals:
1,100 core reps
4 hours and 20 minutes of spinning
200 stairs climbed
4 strength sessions
29 day total core reps = 5,616
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How do you structure your pushups? I rarely do more than 40 at a time to start (55-60 with good form is likely my max). I typically do 40/20/20/20 alternating hand placement and muscle region focus.
Different ways depending on the day, workout, and how my elbows are feeling.
If I am alternating them with core or some type of kettlebell or exercise band movement I will do sets of 50.
Some days after a spin I will see if I can do 200 in under 4 minutes. When I do this I try to do 40-40-30-30-30-30. It doesn’t always work out that way and I sometimes break down the last two sets of 30 into whatever I can manage before failure.
Occasionally I will try to max out my first set between 75-100 then do whatever I can to get to 200.
At the gym I hold onto 25 lb dumbbells to get a deeper stretch.
I don’t mix up my hand placement as much as I used to. If go out much wider than my shoulders it hurts my shoulders. So traditional and close grip is what I mainly concentrate on.
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I recently started using our yoga blocks for this, and for deeper stretch on kettlebell deadlifts. Gives maybe 5” more depth with stability and a soft surface for hand placement.
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For me, I find playing with different ways to modify push ups keeps my workouts fun and interesting…
different hand placements - close, wide, staggered;
sidestep movements - “walk a step” sideways, pushup, walk back, pushup, etc.
different leg placements - put legs elevated on a step, then elevated up on 2 steps, etc.; Or do pushups alternating with one leg elevated.
different movements - tyson pushups, into/out of down dog, into/out of side plank with extended arms, etc.
Mixing and matching all of the above never gets tiring. Actually, I do get tired.
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Well didn’t get this month off to a good start. Life got in the way so nothing done. Hurts cause weekends are dose to be my “big” days!
Good job getting the work in. You too @sphere !
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Came in to work at 7am Friday and haven’t left since, 1.5h left before home. But I did get two solid workouts in despite working five 12h shifts in 3 days. Tomorrow (today?) I’ll sleep at least 12 and get back on schedule.
The last 12h stretch: 100 pushups, 100 squats, 200 core reps, three emergent responses, four code blues, seven procedures, two intubations, one chest tube thoracostomy to relieve a tension hemothorax in cardiac arrest, two massive transfusion protocol initiations and eight admissions. And lots of flights of stairs but I wasn’t keeping count.
Cumulative:
Pushups: 2,200
Body weight squats: 2,350
Abs/core reps: 4,700
2/2 - day 32
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Things happen and sometimes an unplanned rest day is a good thing.
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You may be a superhero. A long 3 days for sure but what an incredible way to live your life.
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That’s one word for it.
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2/2:
30 minute easy spin
40 minute strength
50 flights of stairs followed by .75 mile walk on the treadmill at 8% incline. That hurt.
20 minute post dinner yoga for golfers.
210 core reps.
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Cool dog. What breed?
I live with these three knuckleheads. Two of which are attached to my lap whenever I sit on the couch.
2/2/2026
You are a beast sphere. I would be a zombie with that schedule.
Good job getting your reps in @gfd You were right, a rest day was good. I will slowly make up the time. 
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Sproodle, half springer spaniel, half poodle, full goofball.
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