Push Up Challenge

The 3rd Mini Challenge of the Current Fitness Challenge is PUSH UPs!!!  5/4/12 - 5/17/12  For the Love of Push Ups! 

Phase 1:  For every stage of Push Ups you advance give yourself 15 points.  Meaning that if you are on the Wall now with push ups and progress to Negative push ups, you would earn 30 points (from Wall to Kneeling would be 15 points plus Kneeling to Negatives would be another 15 points for a total of 30 points).  The stages of push ups we will use for this particular challenge in order will be:  Wall, Kneeling, Negative, Full, Inclined, Progressions (3 counts down, hold for 3 counts, up in 3 counts), Declined, Stability Ball Declined, Phase 2.  In order for you to consider yourself ready to advance a stage you need to do a minimum of 10 good form versions of the stage you currently find yourself (total possible points 120).

If you can already do all of these particular push up forms (10 of each), then you get to give yourself 50 points and move on to Phase 2 of this Challenge.  (total possible points 50)

Phase 2:  In addition to your workouts (in other words your workout push ups do not count towards this), set a timer to 15 minutes and in that timeframe with as many breaks as your body requires, count how many push ups you can do in full form (triceps push ups, arms by your side/elbows pulled in full plank form down and up push ups).  If you hummingbird speed through these you will actually not work all of the necessary muscles....so you have to go slow and controlled for these to count.  If your body is flailing and you are not performing in good form, then it doesn't count.  You can only count a good form push up!  You will have a total of two sessions a week you can attempt this from 5/4-5/17 so get cracking if you are in Phase 2 because you will get a whopping 10 points for each push up you can do in each 15 minute session (max total possible points 4,000).

Phase 3:  From 5/18/12 - 6/28/12  If you spent the 14 days of this mini challenge in Phase 1, keep on progressing because you will get 10 points for each stage you advance (total possible points 80).  If/when you find yourself in Phase 2, you will get a total of 50 points for each set of 50 push ups you do every week in addition to your workout push ups (again, workout push ups do not count towards this total) with a maximum of 2 sets a week of these 50.  Same form rules as Phase 2 above, good triceps push up form and only good form counts.  Can't get to 50?  You can still get points: 25 push ups will get you 25 points and between 26-39 push ups will get you 30 points and between 40-49 push ups will get you 40 points.  (total possible points 600)