I am doing 50 pushups a day for August 2023. My goal is to do 50 pushups in a single set. So far I have made it to what I call the faux 50, where technically I do 50 pushups without resting but my form is sub-par. Today I backpedaled and did two higher-quality sets of 25 pushups, for only 50 quality pushups in total! I think this is the best approach overall to be able to do a real set of 50 by the end of August.
I did a 5-minute breath work session between the two sets and that is available to view after the two sets of pushups. In this video, I mention that during the breath work, I had an image come to me that I am in this house, and I hear the house creaking because I am being silent. I am in the house, the house is settling. That is a metaphor for myself being in my body and settling. It is not the deepest realization and there is no direct link between the house and me and then me and my soul. However, the image was strong in my mind that finding time for silence allows you to settle and find a state of calm. All you need to do is sit and breathe and let the thoughts flow. In the video I mention how I did breath work in “Voice for Stage” and then forget why I brought it up. It is because in that class we ran laps around the theater seats before we did breath work. This is the same as the pushups.
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Video Transcript
I’ve been doing some breath work in between sets to try and reset my muscles feed them some oxygen and also tell my system everything is okay now perceive body as a cage or as something that limits me but more as an enabler this is my vessel that’s carrying me carrying my soul carrying whatever I am whatever you can believe us to be we’re definitely more than flesh and Bone we’re definitely more than mud don’t know what but there’s something going on I have electricity flowing from brain to my fingers something’s going on right but it was really nice to hear the creaking of the house listening to house settle as a metaphor right I’m in the house the house is settling in me is myself trapped in my body but if my body is settled then there’s less of this feeling that I’m trapped in my body right foreign hello this is David Comer for improvement Dave day 22 of my 50 push-up day challenge for St Jude Research Hospital really thought I had my new microphone figured out and I’m building slowly building a Blog with a video about this this journey I could be posting that Asi go but I’ve decided to just accumulate all the video together and you can look at all my Misadventures and all my learn your learn years all my learning from failure on that post I think I’m this close I have a very nice camera that plugs right into my tripod there but I’m not there yet so I’m in this big booming room you’re hearing this wonderful echo through the microphone on my camera which is it’s where I’m at today so I’m being consistently not the best but at least I’m being consistent at least I’m owning it okay set one right yes it is really difficult because I just carried a 40 gallon water heater up a flight of stairs on a dolly my dad did help so thank you Dad he did admit that mostly he was steadying it and I was the one pulling it up the stairs which was fair it’s my it was my rental property uh it was my water heater and it was my responsibility so thanks Dad I really appreciate your help their big shout out to my dad Thanks so much Couldn’t have done it without you but literally physically and intellectually probably would have just paid said one thousand dollars to put in that 500 water heater so I spent a whole day of time but I saved a lot of money on honestly an asset that’s generating income every month so it’s a win all right enough about me let’s talk about some push-ups set one we’re gunnery and do at least 25 here and we’re looking at quality not quantity right I know I got up to 80 at one point but those were not those were not push-up foreign[Music]you two three four five two seven[Music]hey[Music]everything[Music]thank you are these push-ups I think they are yes they are16.17.18.[Music]turn your mind[Music]if I don’t take these little breaks I’m not going to make it back up you know[Music]25[Music]7I’m touching the ground a lot there Iwas kept hitting my belly and I think I just have to but it would be more like real push-ups I hadn’t done that if I hadn’t done that thank you it does feel really good you know I am going to keep this up I think my buddy Scott Costa said his name right that time ask he you’re going to keep it up yeah You’re Gona Keep doing video I don’t know that’s a good question so should I keep doing video probably this is the only way I really hold myself accountable is I have to post every day I want to do this for the rest of my life that’s scary I have to be in like one long take these separate takes where I I’m not I’m not more on that later[Music]all right this is David Coleman with Improvement Dave working on set two I just finished five minutes of breathwork in between the sets that you can catch after this recording of this next guess I did 27 so I don’t have to do a full 25 here but we’ll see what I Amable to muster with these muscles that I’ve developed over the last 21 days it could be bigger but they could be smaller I’ve been eating a lot of protein and I’ve been doing my best and that’s what’s important during the breath Mark I had a lot of thoughts about metaphors around breathwork and meditation and I just remember back to my time at Millikin University Mean you don’t know I studied theater Did a lot of breath work a lot of yoga maybe even some meditation I’m not sure if that was part of it or not it kind of depends on what you define as meditation either way I was reminded of the breathwork that I did early in the morning at certain class called voice for stage just these concepts of breathing and it really is a powerful asset to my life and I even had a point that I was going to bring up something that I learned from that class but that’s totally looted Meum I think it was just nice to get back into this practice a little bit and on that a bit and have a way of communicating to my body to myself that everything’s all right I don’t need to be in a constant state of stress and anxiety the way that the I guess the marketing and the advertising industry of the United States maybe even the media want me to be in right because if you’re scared if you’re worried your body breaks down you need to buy stuff you need to buy medicine you need to buy little cushions and heaters to make yourself more comfortable but if you’re already comfortable in your body and you’re at peace with yourself and your environment you don’t need all that stuff in fact this wall behind me used to be full of stuff right a week ago two weeks ago or even before that when I was traveling through Thailand this entire wall was filled with junk my wife and I have not touched for what since 20192023 now it was like four years Haven’t touched any of that junk and I did keep some of the books I kept some of the CDs because that’s memorabilia some printed photos but the rest of it we pretty much got rid of minus the camping supplies because camping’s awesome so sorry for that little rant I just wanted to reconnect with why I’m doing this this concept of being consistent has really triggered something in me 50push-ups a day it seems like a lot to some people to other people doesn’t seem like much at all it’s really interesting when I talk to people what they say they’re like oh that’s not that much Ido 200 or wow 50 push-ups a day I don’t know if I could do five I don’t know if I could do one but for me 30 push-ups a day is a lot I’ve been working out a lot this year and still 50 push-ups has Beena lot especially 50 consistently 50quality push-up that has not been easy so thanks for listening I really appreciate you lending your ear on this side of the camera it feels good to just kind of offload some of these thoughts and I think vlogging is a little bit more of my style than blogging right I’m a bit more of a talker than a type[Laughter]I need some of that well what is it audio to text okay push-ups let’s talk about some push-ups set two Improvement Dave here Improvement Dave that’s how I say it every time now right mess it up everything I consistently say Improvement Dave David Kolmer for Improvement Dave I kind of like that all right. I was at 27 let’s see if I can at least another 25 one two three-oh [Music] six seven hey [Music] fourteen [Music]15 16.17.okay [Music] do you want me it’s harder when you don’t touch the ground but I want to make sure I go all the way down so let’s catch 22. some comments here help me outlet’s switch the best for you could probably just go read on WebMD Do helpline or something21.22.2324 I already hit 50.ohoh man that was 52 and that was difficult as I said halfway through my stomach keeps touching the ground I guess that’s okay I don’t know tell me uh send me message call me out hold me accountable her name is Improvement Dave actually my name is David Kolmer for improvement Dave have a great day I believe it’s Tuesday over here whatever day it is for you have a good one[Music]okay this is actually what I did between two sets of push-ups looks like I made it up to 27 today in the first set and Then followed up with I don’t know yet in the second set because it hasn’t happened yet so we’re kind of traveling through time here a little bit with Improvement Dave my name is David Coleman hey how’s it going yeah everything’s great everything’s good it’s all good I’ve been doing some breath work in between sets to try and reset my muscles feed them some oxygen and also tell my system everything is okay also a count of four in holds before and for four I’m already a minute into this so let’s get started on the breath Park[Music]it’s already there I held in for eight which felt pretty good I might just keep doing that foreign okay doing a hold for eight in an exhale for 12 and an in for six is working really good for me right now foreign that was five minutes on the built-in Microsoft alarm clock a little bit nicer than the online Google alarm that I heard the other day I didn’t actually record that session that’s funny it happened but you didn’t witness it only did while I was doing that breath work I thought maybe this is the best part of these push-ups is this well let’s just call it breath work meditation that I’m doing in between sets I feel like I’m gaining a lot more clarity overall if that’s possible and I think it is it’s quite possible in addition to that I’m thinking of maybe processing this video without any audio so we can hear the sounds of the house kind of creaking and settling that really spoke to me in this session for some reason as I’m sitting here Maslow breath is telling my body to relax my calmness my emptiness my silence my connection with my breath is helping me relax telling my mind relax really want to turn that video off or that that alarm but I’m not going to Donita’s not going to do that I want to really bad but it was really nice to hear the creaking of the house listening to the house settle was a metaphor right I’m in the house the house is settling in me is myself trapped in my body but if my body is settled then there’s less of this feeling that I’m trapped in my mind right because my body can walkout that door over there that you can’t see just outside of your field of vision of the door can go out that door so in the same way if you believe in anything esoteric maybe ask for projection or the concept that the soul isn’t necessarily Tethered to the body I can potentially leave my body and not perceive my body as a cage or as something that limits me but more as an enabler this is my vessel that’s carrying me carrying my soul carrying whatever I am whatever you can believe us to be definitely more than flesh and bone with nothing more than mud I don’t know what but there’s something going on I have electricity flowing from my brain to my fingers something’s going on right thanks so much for tuning in this is David Kolmer for improvement Dave it’s been a pleasure on this side of the campground and you have a great day[Music]good[Music]foreign[Music]
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