So me and my boys made a new years resolution to do 1 pushup every day for a week, and then each week, we add one more.

Just one more.

So week one, we did 1 pushup every day M-F for the week. Laughably easy. Just one.
Week two, we did 2 pushups each day, M-F all week long.
Week three, 3 pushups a day, etc.

And we all always have to have a witness, one of us, that we did them or it doesn't count. I think this part was key to sticking with it.

The thinking here was that at the end of the year, we'd be doing 52 pushups, and we'd never even realize that we were putting forth any effort, because it would be so slow of an increase, our bodies would just acclimatize to the minuscule increases in effort...

However, this week is 35 pushups, and the "we won't even notice the effort" is not quite the case. It actually IS some effort - but we're actually doing it!

The boys and I couldn't do 20 pushups in a row to save our lives before this.

Now we're doing our 35 and we're all like, "yeah, I could have done 1 or 2 more" which gives us continued hope for the next week.

At this point, while I now know it will feel like effort, I'm confident the strength will be there. Should be at about 50 pushups for this Christmas, and for Christmas 2027, we will - God willing - be opening up a can of 100 pushups.

Thought maybe this might inspire somebody, or some families/friends to make the pushup pact, improve your health, and maybe bring each other a little closer together.

Today was day 3 and sadly due to the pain of previous days, my chest muscles are sore and hence I could only do around 5 knee pushups...the journey is gonna be a long one but I don't plan on giving up !!!

Today is day 2, I'm not strong enough to do normal pushups just now, but I managed to do 4 knee pushups today which I feel were great..

I don't know why but I think my form is slightly incorrect because while holding I feel a little pressure on my chest, yeah like on the bone which doesn't feel right, I downloaded an app to check my form but it doesn't count knee pushups xDD

How can I improve my form ???

Today was the first day of my BRING SALLY UP challenge, and uh for those who don't know what this is, this is basically a song which has a pushup challenge and Ive started that from today

It has I think a total of 42 pushups and I've started it from incline pushups with my bed as the starting height and when I make it to 20 incline pushups, I'll start them on the ground..

I'm thinking of posting my progress here everyday, and I hope this is the appropriate sub for this ?? (If not pls tell me which one to post on)

I'm rlly motivated to do it this time and WISH ME LUCK GUYS :DDDD

I’m training to tryout for a peace officer and one of the physical agility tests is to do 19 pushups in 1 minute, with good form. So far I can do about 13 pushups in 45 seconds with proper form, and then my form starts to fail. My test is on September 12, 2026, so a little less than 3 weeks from now. I would like to do 20 pushups in a minute. How can I train to improve my pushups? I feel like I haven’t progressed with my training.
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Pretty sweet alarm that gets me up every time! 💪🏼
It’s Pushy- push ups alarm. You can also do squats if you can’t do push ups yet!

I can do 36 push ups to failure. Im stuck here for 1 month. I GTG for 20 reps for 8 sets throughout the day. Then increase reps weekly. Is this too much or too little? I am male 23yo 70kg.

I'm week 13 into a program to get to 100 unbroken pushups. I could do ~30 at start. Slowly making progress toward the goal!

Hitting my PR...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SXp-fau1IGc

Whenever i do over about 10 pushups, i feel shocks in my left arm, like electric shock, so obviously my nerves are weird, but this only happens when i do a push up or bench press heavy, i cant find anything like it online, does anybody else struggle with this? Is there something i can do or should i just chop my arm and stick a pole in the stub?

When I manage to get upto 100 pushups a day, should I focus more on improving the quality of each pushup so to speak or reduce the amount of sets required to get the 100? I started about a month ago while struggling to do 10 and have already reached 60 each morning as 3 sets of 20.

I’ve been trying to increase my push up max for a long time but I just haven’t made any progress. I’ve managed to do 27 for my max but I end up collapsing and I’m out of breath. I want to increase it to about 45 and above.I have access to a great gym. I would really appreciate any daily workout recommendations to help improve my pushups. Along with the amount of reps and how long I need to do them in order to really improve.

is this usefull ?

Hey folks.

I recently went from 15 squats, 15 push-ups, 8 bicep curls (backpack), and 60sec plank, repeated a total of 3 times to

33 squats, 33 push-ups, 33 rope inverted rows, and a 90 second plank - repeated for a total of 3 sets. Today, just now in fact, I finally killed it! Hit failure point on pushup #s 25, 28, and 30 of final set (left side collapsed to floor) but took a breath and kept at it.

Ive got some ground beef a sizzling, and just wanted to share a moment of personal victory with you all. Best wishes o7

Week 11 was an added Specificity week as I failed to meet the 75 rep milestone. Still a way off! I'll be adding on at least another loading week to keep pushing. It's working though as I'm getting PRs and my 3 sets near max load is continuously increasing. Just takes time - I'm old 🙃.

How much do you think I did 😁

Lessons from the Training Floor – Tenday 23 – The Longevity Athlete

Fifty days since my last post, but the journey never paused. What changed was my perspective. I picked up Atomic Habits by James Clear and realized I’ve been applying its principles all along without knowing it.

The 1% rule showed up in the slow accumulation of reps. Starting with wall pushups and wall pullups. Building a system around the 25‑minute circuits and stacking the four muscle‑group workouts. Using the goldilocks rule to keep the training challenging but sustainable. Tracking the work. And experiencing breakthrough moments like full pushups and full pullups.

Even the purchase of the pull‑up and rings gym, which at first looked like the Diderot effect, became part of the daily circuits. It wasn’t an impulse; it was an integration.

Tenday 23 marked something new: the emergence of an identity-based habit.

The Longevity Athlete

• The sport is my future self.
• The competition is entropy.
• The victory condition is physical strength and capability at any age.

Daily physical discipline becomes the practice. Structured, progressive, sustainable, and tracked. Not for performance. For longevity. Where the future self becomes the scoreboard: Capability at 60. Mobility at 70. Strength at 80. Independence at 90.

This is the long game I’m training for. And it's the identity that now drives the system.

My goal right now is go through August

Do you guys use any sort of apps to track how many pushups you did in x day or calories expended or just to note down how many you did for accountability purposes etc? I have a general idea of how many press ups I do a day but it'd be nice to look back and see my rep increase

100 pushups a day is pretty boring, I'm currently only up to "40-45 in one go" which is fine but wonder what random additions you guys do to make the process fun.

So in my case I occasionally play "pokemon showdown" it's a game where you battle pokemon usually 6v6 and I go with "10 pushups per loss on your team and 5 pushups per time opponent loses one" so ideally you win and do less but still you can get good numbers from this

Have you guys made little games for this ?

Edit: another one I tried is 20 pushups per minute.. drops to 10 per 30 seconds but still at peak doing 100 in 5 minutes is insane.

Week 9 was a regression — dropped to 48 from my old best of 50. Week 10 I bounced back with 55 unbroken, a new personal best. I'm documenting every step of the road to 100 unbroken push-ups, the good weeks and the bad ones.