Progress! Progress! Progress! 💪🏽 This one word has been the highlight of my push-ups sessions since the day I experienced my breathing and rep strategy. Looks like it is paying off big time, as I cut down ⬇️ the time for the 100 push-ups along with increasing 🆙 the maximum number of push-ups in a single rep.
Gosh, it feels good to finally see the amazing results of your constant hard work. 😎

You will find out the numbers in a few minutes ⏱, but reflecting upon my performance just a few days ago, I am being humbled 😊 to see how a few “correct techniques” can positively affect your body and confidence; It motivates 🧘🏼‍♂️ you to perform better and be the best version of yourself. #motivation #inspiration because, why not!

Now, it is time to check out the Time-Lapse from December 14, 2019. When I started with this attempt, I did not realize I would be able to exceed my goal and crack 04:05 for the 100 push-ups. It was not on my mind, I was just happy 😊 to get better every single day; But, cutting down almost a minute and a half is a huge feat and I am glad I could do it 🙌🏽. Achieving 39 push-ups in a single rep just goes on to show you that with enough practice, you can master anything. 🤓 I know, I still have half a month to go and you never know what can happen during that time. So, just hope for the best and keep working! 🤞🏽

I am excited to show you the daily progress tracker. 👇🏽

What an achievement to cut down almost 100 seconds for the 100 push-ups in the span of five days. Trust me, it was not an easy task. 🚫 It was the sweet fruit of a lot of sweat and hard work; And, I am glad, I reached there! 😼

As this is the mid-month check-in. Let us take a look at a couple graphs and track my overall progress.

• Maximum Push-ups per repetition

I have made tremendous progress in this department. I almost quadrupled 4️⃣ my performance in this category.
The first day, I could barely complete 10 push-ups in the first rep; whereas, by the last day of the second week, I increased that number to 39. Isn’t it amazing? 39 push-ups represent my personal best in this category. 😁

Here’s the graph for maximum push-ups in a single rep till mid-December 2019.

• Total time taken for 100 push-ups

Last week when I checked my performance in this category, I was not “very” pleased, but, during the second week, I took control of myself and surprised myself with the progress I made. 🤗
I still remember the first day I started this activity. I took a good 08:25. I cut this down to 06:25 at the end of the first week. Second week is where I could really started improving the speed and took only 04:05 to finish my 100 push-ups. I have more than halved my total time, and I could not be happier. I am so so glad with my performance. 😸
As promised here’s the graph to showcase my progress.

Ending this week and the post on a high note!

Byeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee!

With one day to go for the mid-month check-in, I feel good that I am on the right track. Today’s session was the testimonial of this very fact. Today is the day I started feeling better about myself after starting the 100 push-ups.

You will see in the coming sections how I killed these 100 push-ups. I did not have a specific goal in mind for today. I just wanted to listen to my body and see what’s it telling me. Turns out, when you do these 100 push-ups for a long time, your body gets used to it; And (wait for it) without you even realizing, it accomplishes the task that you once thought was out of your reach.
Every day, I am fortunate enough to learn new things about myself and the magic of human persistence. #motivation #michaelscott

If you compare today’s workout with yesterday’s, you will find that I seem to be more relaxed during today’s session. The reason behind this, as I already stated, is that I was just doing 100 push-ups without aiming for any goal. Surprisingly, it paid off. IMO, the reason that happened is because my body has built up enough stamina and is ready to take on this challenge quite lightly. I might be wrong, but this is something that I believe in right now.

Take a look at the Time-Lapse from December 13, 2019 and see for yourself. My biceps are getting bigger and am feeling stronger every day. My breaks have dramatically reduced and the number of push-ups have increased for each rep. In the video, you can also see me pushing myself to go for more even when I feel tired.
The point I am trying to make here is that I am in the rhythm right now, and I am pretty sure nothing can stop me right now!

If you looked at the video above, the one thing that I find which needs more improvements is the number of breaks. I think I am capable of cutting down that number, so my next goal is that. Let’s see how it goes.

The numbers part of the post is here. My daily tracker. 👇🏽

Looking at the tracker above, you can see that I easily cut down 30 seconds from the total time taken for the 100 push-ups and I hit my new personal record of the 35 push-ups in a single rep. This is worth celebrating! #humblebrag

Tomorrow, we will reflect upon my progress in the last two weeks. Its going to be filled with charts and numbers and may be some inspirational and motivational quotes. WHO KNOWS!

Bidāẏa!

I finally cracked the 5-minute target for the 100 push-ups. 😎💪🏽✌🏽😌🥳

Today’s Milind is happier 😊 than the Grumpy 😡 Milind yesterday. I am so glad that I did use that “failed” strategy yesterday; It helped me achieve this goal and let me tell, things are only going to get better from here. 😇 #markmywords

Taking all the required learnings from yesterday’s session, I had only one goal in mind – “BEATING 5-MINUTES FOR 100 PUSH-UPS”. Before actually starting the push-ups, I told myself I must do this whatever it takes. I think the fire 🔥and spark 🧨 that I was missing since day 1, finally came to light today and was enough to lift 🏋🏼‍♂️ me up and achieve my highly coveted target 🎯. If you want to use one word to describe this feat, it will be “FOCUS”.

I think I did not aim for beating the maximum number of push-ups in a single rep. I believe it was the byproduct of the strategy that I used to reduce my time below 5 minutes. Funny how things work. One thing that I learnt today was apart from the breathing technique and the posture for the push-ups, we also need focus to accomplish this “mammoth” 😰 task. If you think about it, the first two are physical aspects of this challenge, whereas the latter one is the mental 🧠. It is very important to be mentally prepared for achieving something in life, coupled with the physical characteristics for it. I guess, I let myself be a little motivational there. 😝

I have only one learning in this session – 🟢 FOCUS, FOCUS, and more FOCUS.

We must have a tunnel vision in life what we want, and should go all in to achieve that. I have had used it before, and am still using it, and it seems to be working for me so far. 🙌🏽

Time to pay close attention to the Time-Lapse from December 12, 2019. Here, you can see the tunnel vision that I talked about in my eyes (well, if you can reduce the playback speed 🤪). I am happy with this feat.

All the way happy with the tracker. 👇🏽

I would like to take the learnings for the last 12 days and improve upon it. I remember when I started off, I thought 5-minute mark was impossible. And, here we are! So, why don’t I go for 4-minutes. Seems far fetched, but if I progress like this, I am sure that day is not far from today. 👀

Let us see how it goes and hope for the best. 🙏🏽

I am so happy 😊 to end this session on a happy note! tạm biệt ✌🏽 ✌🏽

A failed strategy! 👎🏽😾😑😭😤😡
These three words are enough to describe today’s 100 push-ups. I chose this day very carefully to try a couple of new things and boy, I failed miserably 😡 trying those techniques. The reason for trying new things was obvious to me. Unless I try new things and technique, how I am supposed to be a better version of myself every passing day? The reason my strategy did not work because it was just not good enough. 👎🏽

If you remember, yesterday, I was on the verge of breaking a 5-minute mark for the 100 push-ups, only a 5 second more than my desired target; Therefore, instead of going for it, I gave a shot to a new technique. The strategy was – “instead of going all out during the first rep, I should preserve my energy and do only 10 push-ups each rep, consuming lesser energy, which I can use during the latter reps”. I must tell you, I WAS SO WRONG!

As you will check out my Time-Lapse video later in the post, I could not “preserve” that energy ⚡️ and was hardly able to keep up with the usual pace. My arms were sore doing more reps and I found myself out of breath most of the time after 50-60 push-ups. It was a bad gamble and I am not afraid to say that I lost it all.

At the end of this session, instead of being disappointed, I was a happy person, and, I think I should be. I tried a new thing and I failed, and that’s okay; Because, I learnt something new about myself, my body, and the way it responds to the 100 push-ups.
I think the below pointers might help you guys.

1. 🟢 Instead of limiting yourself, you must go all in and push yourself at times to achieve your goals. 🤘🏽
2. 🔴 I held back and did not let my body work at its full potential, which did not help me achieve my goal and beat my previous record. A lesson well learnt! 👨🏽‍🏫

For those of you who are waiting for the Time-Lapse 📹 from December 11, 2019, here you go. As you can see I could not keep up the 10 push-ups per rep for more than 3 reps. During the fourth rep, I realized my mistake, but went ahead with it anyway. By the end of the 80-90 push-ups, my arms were super tired 🥱; I just wanted it to finish. 🏁

The tracker does not paint a good picture regarding today’s attempt.👇🏽

Though I am disappointed with the result, I am not upset about it. I would remember this lesson and work harder on myself to further improve my performance and finally crack that 5-minute barrier. 💪🏽 #likeaboss

Today was not a good effort! Let us hope for a better tomorrow! It is “officially” goodbye time! ✌🏽

As I told you yesterday, beating your previous record helps you so much you sometimes surprise yourself with the results. This is exactly what happened with me today, and I cannot express how happy I am with it.

I think I paid enough attention to the learnings from the previous session. I got the beat which I needed to last longer during the first rep of the 32 push-ups. I remember as soon as I reached 30 push-ups, my arms were telling me to give up; But, I convinced myself to push for one more push-up and one more after that. This is the reason, I could better previous best of 30 push-ups by a couple more. Felt like a true athlete! 🤪😝 #humblebrag

Few points to note –

1. 🟢 I should push myself like this every single day. It will help me beat my goal and set new ones.💪🏽
2. 🟢 More focus should be given to posture and my body movement. I am sure it will help me improve further.

Here’s the Time-Lapse from December 10, 2019. Even though I made some progress compared to yesterday, I think it can be further improved by taking less breaks and I will be able to do that if I further improve my breathing technique.

As usual, the documentation/record tracker is given below. 👇🏽

Looking at the result above 👆🏽, you cannot help but inspire yourselves in more ways than you imagine! Cutting down 20 seconds from this session helped me inspire so much that I think I can finally crack down the five-minute barrier. I am so looking forward to it!

Can’t wait to share tomorrow’s progress! Take care!

I was pumped-up for my push-ups looking at the results from yesterday. One week into the routine, I had no problems getting up from the bed and start stretching for these push-ups. I was like “I am the BOSS” & “Let’s do this”!
I know it sounds corny; but, that’s just the way I felt.

The biggest surprise for today’s push-ups was the timing. I know I was aiming to cut down my time by some margin; but, when I saw that I did cut down an entire minute from the total time, I was all over the moon. I had struggled with cutting time down in the first week and was glad to find out I finally did what I wanted to using the learnings from the previous sessions. It bolsters my belief in “Everything is possible with the right technique!”. Who is ready for another challenge? Answer- This guy 🙋🏽‍♂️😎

Talking about improving the maximum number of push-ups in a rep, I improved in that area by three more push-ups and tied for the previous best of 30. I was convincingly happy with this performance 💪🏽 and felt like a bonus when I was trying for cutting down the time.

I greatly learnt the importance of proper technique and breathing pattern during today’s session and found out 🙇🏽-

1. 🟢 I should inhale a big breath before starting off with the push-ups.
2. 🟢 I should push myself a little harder when I think that I am done with the push-ups, getting those 1-2 extra push-ups in a rep.
3. 🟢 keep improving like this and you will see some more great results! 😎

You can see the difference in attitude while I attack these push-ups. The Time-Lapse from December 09, 2019 is below.

Here’s the tracker to document the progress. 👇🏽

A minute improvement in the total time taken and increasing the maximum number of push-ups in a rep by 3 makes me wanna say – “BRING IT ONNN!” 🤜🏽

All right then, see you until next time!

The first day of the second week! I think this was motivating enough for me to excel in today’s 100 push-ups; And, that’s what I did. I beat yesterday’s performance (not by much), but it was very important for me to start the week on a high note – driving me to work even harder to beat my last session.

As I have a plan now, my goal is to stick to it and execute it daily. If I could do that, I would be a better version of everyday – which is my ultimate goal.
I was glad to see a 5 second improvement in the total time taken to finish the 100 push-ups. Plus, I did improve the max push-ups in a single rep by 4. This was a huge thing for me as I did not finish the first week on a high note. You can term it as a “Moral Booster”.

As always, the learnings are the most important part for me in these blog posts. The one key takeaway from all these attempts is that the breathing technique is more important than you think for any workout. So, my focus is going to be improving that to increase my performance levels.

1. 🟢 Finished the 100 push-ups 5 seconds in advance. 🤞🏽
2. 🟢 For the first time, I came back stronger after falling behind in terms of number of push-ups in a single rep. I must tell ya, it is a good feeling. 🤘🏽
3. 🔴 I improved the breathing technique, with more room for improvements. Also, I should myself a little bit harder to improve my performance just by a tiny bit.

Here’s the interesting part of this blog post – the Time-Lapse from December 08, 2019. I improved a couple reps by breathing properly and pushing myself for the last push-up in each rep. A positive 🕉 change I did after a week’s efforts.

Here’s the tracker to document the progress.

A slight increase in performance and starting the week #2 in the right fashion. I understand this week is crucial for me as I would be up for a mid-month performance comparison and would be super depressed if I do not show up with good numbers.

Instead of thinking about that right now, the more important thing for me to focus on each day at a time and try to give my everything in those 100 push-ups.

All good for today, then! Baibai!