Hi everyone,
As some of you may or may not know, I've been unable to be particularly physically active over the last month or so due to having had some minor surgery done.
However, for the last couple of weeks, I've been able to grease-the-groove my one-arm pushups, and have got pretty good at them; my GTG sets mainly consist of sets of 5 on the ground (pretty easy - could probably do about 8-10 reps if I wanted), and sets of 3 with my feet elevated on a box that is just under 1ft off the ground (tougher - could probably do 6 reps). All my reps are very strict; feet shoulder-width apart, chest parallel to the floor, and with my chest (or chin/chest for the feet-elevated sets) brushing the floor on every rep.
So, as something of a challenge for myself, given that I can't do a huge amount else with my body, I'm aiming to do a total of 100 OAPU reps per arm (just classic reps; feet and hands on the ground) over the course of one day (probably Saturday or Sunday), broken up into sets of 5 (so 20 sets in total), with at least 15 minutes of rest between sets.
Honestly, I don't imagine this being too taxing physically (more of a time management task really, as I'd need to keep reminding myself to do them and keeping a note of them), due to my current strength levels (and also because, without counting, I think I'm probably doing about 10-15 sets every day anyway), but I'm hoping that banging out that much volume in one day, probably followed by a rest/very easy day, will act as a springboad to boost my OAPU strength even further (I have a goal to one day be comfortably doing regular sets of 5 with my feet on a chair about knee/thigh height). Also, '100 one-arm pushups in one day' sounds pretty cool to me .
If I find it to be very doable, I may up the ante and set myself a 150-200 rep challenge for a later date.
I shall keep you all posted on how it goes.
Harry
As some of you may or may not know, I've been unable to be particularly physically active over the last month or so due to having had some minor surgery done.
However, for the last couple of weeks, I've been able to grease-the-groove my one-arm pushups, and have got pretty good at them; my GTG sets mainly consist of sets of 5 on the ground (pretty easy - could probably do about 8-10 reps if I wanted), and sets of 3 with my feet elevated on a box that is just under 1ft off the ground (tougher - could probably do 6 reps). All my reps are very strict; feet shoulder-width apart, chest parallel to the floor, and with my chest (or chin/chest for the feet-elevated sets) brushing the floor on every rep.
So, as something of a challenge for myself, given that I can't do a huge amount else with my body, I'm aiming to do a total of 100 OAPU reps per arm (just classic reps; feet and hands on the ground) over the course of one day (probably Saturday or Sunday), broken up into sets of 5 (so 20 sets in total), with at least 15 minutes of rest between sets.
Honestly, I don't imagine this being too taxing physically (more of a time management task really, as I'd need to keep reminding myself to do them and keeping a note of them), due to my current strength levels (and also because, without counting, I think I'm probably doing about 10-15 sets every day anyway), but I'm hoping that banging out that much volume in one day, probably followed by a rest/very easy day, will act as a springboad to boost my OAPU strength even further (I have a goal to one day be comfortably doing regular sets of 5 with my feet on a chair about knee/thigh height). Also, '100 one-arm pushups in one day' sounds pretty cool to me .
If I find it to be very doable, I may up the ante and set myself a 150-200 rep challenge for a later date.
I shall keep you all posted on how it goes.
Harry