How much do you think I did 😁

thats it.

Where are my heat brothers and sisters at?

When I do sets longer than ~20 reps, I feel pressure and tingling in the head towards the end of the set. I read it was a matter of holding your breath and not breathing properly, but even when I do reps slowly and really focus on my breathing it still happens. Anyone else has this problem?

If so what do I need?

I managed to eek out 25 push ups on my first try which skipped me to week three. I managed days 1 and 2 fine but day 3 was very hard.

On the last set (max out (at least 21)) I had to stop 3 or 4 times to recover. Does this mean it would be best for me to retake this week or should I continue on as is?

I'm also confused as to how I'm supposed to be able to 16 push ups then 21, 15, 15 and then 21 again when only a few days earlier I could only max 25. I guess its supposed to really push you but it feels like a massive step up!

I just finished my initial test and got 35! I am super excited about that but I'm wondering where to go next. Should I start at the beginning of the program? Or jump straight into week 4?

So what's the deal with this community? Is it just the nature of the 6 week program, that people don't linger here? I see that there's nearly 8,000 subscribers. I'm really just curious, as I'm normally a lurker in all my subreddits as well. (W1D1 complete! LOL).

Hey guys! I think we can all agree that when working out consistency is key, but I always had trouble with that. I would always get bored and could not keep up the habit of working out. Recently, I decided to change that, and having a coding background, I created an app to build a work out habit.

When I started out I would struggle to do 10 pushups in a row, but now I can comfortably do around 20-25, and 50 in total. I was doing pushups daily, increasing it by 2-4 each day. I created a streak tracker in my app, so every time I would miss a day I would loose the streak, which for me was a great motivator. How are you guys keeping yourself accountable when working out?

Welcoming discussion on consistency of working out, building good habits and suggestions for the app if anyone is into that :)

So looking at the side bar of /r/C25K I found this subreddit and so I though I would try it out as I've never really done any fitness regimes or anything like that. I was surprised that I could pull off 36 consecutive push ups! So today I'm going to rest because I'm frikkin exhausted from the initial test and tomorrow start Week 3. This should be a great new experience!

At the start of this year I challenged myself to do 1 pushup for every day of the year. I made it up to 220 pushups before my shoulders started clicking and I got a pan in my left shoulder (couldn’t raise it from 0 degrees to 90 without pain). I also never reached my goal of being able to do 50 in a row. Only got to 36.

I rest and did some ChatGPT physical therapy and now think it’s because I didn’t do enough shoulder and upper back strength/stability movements.

Any thoughts? I loved the daily challenge and how it transformed my upper body so I want to try again but the injury set me back pretty bad from my other routines

Or are they too similar to push-ups in the muscles they exercise (excuse my ignorance)?

I'm excited about starting this program, but have a question. When I'm doing the initial test, does it need to be constant all the way through? Or would mini midset breaks still count? I'm just talking stopping at the top of my plank for a couple breaths. Does that skew my max count?

Can you wait one day before going onto the next week?

Also if you fail a day, can you just wait a day and repeat it instead of redoing the entire week?

Thanks

I went to the initial testing and it seems that it's mainly only for older picture of the age 40+. Is it still possible for me to follow this program?