I did my third exhaustion test today and got 46 consecutive push ups in less than one minute. The most ever in my life!
My soundtrack was Rocky's "going to fly now." As cheesy as it sounds it never fails to get me pumped up every time. I just love the story of the Rocky movie and the soundtrack puts it all into one song which acts like my fuel.
To reflect, I started the push ups program back in mid January, aiming to reach 100 push ups in seven weeks. It is now 10 weeks later and I have made it to week 4 of the program. Sounds like a failure right?
Not at all. It is quite the opposite. I've noticed a very simple trend that I often overlooked because I let my emotions look for me. When I started something I really wanted to do I always stopped at, or shortly after the first failure.
It wasn't until I found out I studied Mandarin Chinese for almost three years with huge success that I discovered the reason I was successful was because I stuck with it and refused to give up.
My push ups program has now turned into a case study on how dogged determination and letting go of fear can = success (and pecs).
On the Push ups logger website if you look closely there are 16,778 people on week one, 2,282 people where I am (week 4 day 1) and just a few hundred on the final week. I intend to join those on the final week. :)
If you want to track my progress and look at my fun loving comments for each work out day they are all logger on the above site. You can search for my username: ouyang.
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