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5,001 press-ups in 2020

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flyingfinn Jan 2020 12:11pm, 10 Jan 2020 1,386 posts	0 flyingfinn It won't last Homer. I'm around the house quite a bit at the moment and just ticking over on the running. So plenty of opportunity and energy at present plus routine. Once the mileage kicks up and I start being out and about/away more it will be more random. It was very noticeable last year how the big months for this type of activity were at the beginning and end of the year. When I was spending a lot of time away in the hills there was a distinct drop off!
Homer Jan 2020 12:17pm, 10 Jan 2020 13,659 posts	0 Homer Makes sense. Nice to be out on the hills though
Wriggling Snake Jan 2020 6:34pm, 10 Jan 2020 25,275 posts	0 Wriggling Snake 50 amongst more core
Velociraptor Jan 2020 7:26pm, 10 Jan 2020 44,754 posts	0 Velociraptor 4 x 20. My upper arms wouldn't have coped with sets of 25 today. Day off tomorrow.
MovingAlong Jan 2020 8:02pm, 10 Jan 2020 67 posts	0 MovingAlong Bootcamp again tonight, and next day in the press up challenge - so 67 (12,15, 12,12,16)
Muttley Jan 2020 9:01pm, 10 Jan 2020 554 posts	0 Muttley Another 50, this time in sets of 10 rather than 5. Felt good!
Columba Jan 2020 9:52pm, 10 Jan 2020 19,037 posts	0 Columba Following ER and Chell's exchange about placement and positioning of hands, it occurred to me that the arthritic joints at the base of my thumbs might be one of the things making it difficult for me to do "proper" press-ups from floor level. Doing them from the arm of a chair gives me a nice soft (but not too yielding) cylindrical shape to grip. Experimented a bit and discovered that by gripping the sides of a low stool (considerably lower than the chair arm) I can indeed cope with a few press-ups, more demanding than the chair-arm ones. So that's what I'll do from now on.
alpenrose Jan 2020 10:04pm, 10 Jan 2020 42,607 posts	0 alpenrose Always good to hear of improvements/progressions Columba.
Chell Jan 2020 6:39am, 11 Jan 2020 396 posts	0 Chell Nice one , Columba 😀👍
NDWDave Jan 2020 10:16am, 11 Jan 2020 11,022 posts	0 NDWDave I’m going aiming for 20 on most days. It is keeping me on track