I am happy to say that I did 50 (or more) pushups every day for August 2023. It was not as easy as I thought it would be to VLOG about 50 pushups for 31 days straight.
This all takes way more time than it looks like. There were times when my family missed me and I had to step away from this to tend to them. I learned a lot from this challenge and I am proud to say that I completed it. It forced me to learn how to generate “PNG” files with a transparent background and even apply those custom artifacts over video footage. I am at a different place than I was 31 days ago, (mostly I am just better at doing pushups. HA! 555+) but this has forced me to grow in more ways than one and for that, I am very grateful. Consistency is not easy but once it becomes a habit it is not difficult either. I will miss this daily grind, but at the same time, I am so glad it is over!
My goal WAS to do 50 pushups every day for August 2023. My stretch goal STILL IS to do 50 quality pushups in a single set. Today I did two higher-quality sets of 25 pushups, for only 50 quality pushups in total! I think this is the best approach overall to do an actual set of 50 by the end of 2023.
I did a 5-minute breath work session between the two sets as preparation and a reset for the second set of 25 pushups. This video is available to view after the two sets of pushups. In this video, I do the basic 4-count in, 4-count hold, and 4-count exhale. Then when that feels comfortable I up it to 8-counts for all three. Normally I would do a 4 or 8-count hold after the exhale but having just done pushups and preparing to do more pushups I do not tend to hold on the exhale very often.
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I am feeling better today than I did yesterday. It got down to 65 degrees here in Saint Louis, MO so I decided to do the pushups outside. I am trying to trim the videos down shorter now so there is less dead time and less talking time.
My goal is to do 50 pushups every day for August 2023. My stretch goal is to do 50 quality pushups in a single set. Today I did two higher-quality sets of 25 pushups, for only 50 quality pushups in total! I think this is the best approach overall to do an actual set of 50 by the end of August.
I did a 5-minute breath work session between the two sets, which is available to view after the two sets of pushups. In this video, I do the basic 4-count in, 4-count hold, and 4-count exhale. Then when that feels comfortable I up it to 8-counts for all three. Normally I would do a 4 or 8-count hold after the exhale but having just done pushups and preparing to do more pushups I do not tend to hold on the exhale.
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I am not feeling very well today. In this video, I declare, “That is the thing about consistency, you still show up even when you are not feeling well. I am going to give my 100% even though I don’t have 100% to give. I am going to give my full 83%.) My kids both got Hand Foot and Mought Virus over the weekend, and as our Nurse Practitioner warned, there is now a strain that adults get. Maybe it is the offspring of the Omnichrom Carona 19 virus. I am not pro-vax or anti-vax.
It seems to me like just getting the virus is a vaccination in its own way. Probably more risky than a vaccination but it’s cheaper! and I love a good value! Still, I’d rather just get a vaccine if I can afford it and it doesn’t make me sick. So, now that I have polarized my reader base, let’s move forward to the video where I try to do pushups even though I am not very fit and I am sick!
My goal is to do 50 pushups every day for August 2023. My stretch goal is to do 50 quality pushups in a single set. Today I did two higher-quality sets of 25 pushups, for only 50 quality pushups in total! I think this is the best approach overall to do an actual set of 50 by the end of August.
I did a 5-minute breath work session between the two sets, which is available to view after the two sets of pushups. In this video, I do the basic 4-count in, 4-count hold, and 4-count exhale. Then when that feels comfortable I up it to 8-counts for all three. Normally I would do a 4 or 8-count hold after the exhale but having just done pushups and preparing to do more pushups I do not tend to hold on the exhale.
Please Donate to The Children
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It was especially nice outside so I decided to do my daily 50 pushups on the deck behind our house. It was windy and I got a lot of pops and clicks on my microphone. I had the foam wind guard on my mic so I am wondering if it was the wind that caused that. I have never had that issue before.
My goal is to do 50 pushups every day for August 2023. My stretch goal is to do 50 quality pushups in a single set. Today I did two higher-quality sets of 25 pushups, for only 50 quality pushups in total! I think this is the best approach overall to do an actual set of 50 by the end of August.
I did a 5-minute breathwork session between the two sets, which is available to view after the two sets of pushups. In this video, I do the basic 4-count in, 4-count hold, and 4-count exhale. Then when that feels comfortable I up it to 8-counts for all three. Normally I would do a 4 or 8-count hold after the exhale but having just done pushups and preparing to do more pushups I do not tend to hold on to the exhale.
In this video, I brought my small digital kitchen timer to help time the breathwork. I have been using my laptops for timers but that is cumbersome and a few times I have left the computer in random spots in the house and then not known where it was. I recall my time at Wat Chom Thong, in Thailand’s Chiang Mai province where I did a 10-day Vippisana Meditation retreat. We used timers like these at that meditation center. More information about that center here: https://northernvipassana.org/en/
After the breathwork, I place my hands together and raise them to my forehead, and as I do that the church across the pasture rang its bell for 2 PM. I was not anticipating that but for some reason it tickled me. I went on a tangent about how small moments of coincidence or magic like that should be allowed to make us happy. All things are connected in ways we can not understand. I go on to claim that the world is a single organism and we are like the microbes living in that organism. I then made a statement that there are more bacteria in the human body than human cells, but I edited that part out because I looked it up and technically it is not true. If you take into account the red blood cells, the human body is 50% bacteria and 50% human cells. If you think about that, that’s still incredible. The mass of the bacteria is smaller than human cells, so the mass is not 50/50 but the number of human cells to bacteria is estimated to be about half half.
Today again was a very rough day of doing 50 push-ups a day for Saint Jude. I make a good point in this video that you know if I was just healthier and if I had been doing this since I was young, this would be easy. I then get on my soapbox and preach how it’s never too late to start.
I’m going to be honest my cheat day has turned sort of into a cheat weekend. Saturday night, I had a couple beers, and a glass of wine and didn’t eat very well (Pizza, ice cream, Peach cocktails, etc.).
Normally, this really wouldn’t affect push-ups the next day, but since I am old, and I have been eating, very healthily and not drinking alcohol, I can really tell the difference when I do add these things back into my routine. You will notice that in the second set, my kids come down to help in my first set. You can hear them screaming upstairs in the bathtub, but please don’t worry my wife was watching them.
I did a 5-minute breath work session between the two sets, which is available to view after the two sets of pushups. In this video, I do the basic 4-count in, 4-count hold, and 4-count exhale. Then when that feels comfortable I up it to 8-counts for all three. Normally I would do a 4 or 8-count hold after the exhale but having just done pushups and preparing to do more pushups I do not tend to hold on the exhale. In this video, I didn’t do the full 5-minute breathwork because I was very pressed for time.
I am doing 50 pushups a day for August 2023. I am now including all my breathwork in these daily video updates and owning the fact that this is a form of meditation. I am sharing my experience with the practice and the benefits I receive from it.
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I am doing 50 pushups a day for August 2023. My goal is to do 50 pushups every day for August 2023.
I completed an iteration of my new logo so I added that to this video.
This is my first time using a PNG file with a transparent background of a logo I designed over video. So, all pretty exciting for me on this side of things… I am feeling incredibly good about it. I also found some very good open-source music from the Psych Rock group Kruingbin for the breathwork session today.
I did a 5-minute breath work session between the two sets, which is available to view after the two sets of pushups. In this video, I do the basic 4-count in, 4-count hold, and 4-count exhale. Then when that feels comfortable I up it to 8-counts for all three. Normally I would do a 4 or 8-count hold after the exhale but having just done pushups and preparing to do more pushups I do not tend to hold on the exhale.
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Yesterday I mentioned in my blog that as I am creating videos to post on my Vlog of my doing my 50 pushups a day for St. Jude, my camera on my phone keeps crashing or shutting down. Sometimes this happens when an alarm goes off, but other times I’m not sure if it crashed or if I failed to hit record.
Last night I went to bed asking myself, “How can I solve this issue without buying a stand-alone camera or a new phone that I only use for making these videos?” … I really like how my phone connects with iCloud and then later the videos are just on my computer or easily available for download on the cloud web page. (That reminds me I need to delete all that raw video that I have processed and posted on YouTube.com)
The Power of Your Subconscious Mind
I have spoken about this book before and I will speak about it again.
The method of this book is asking yourself a question a few times before you go to bed. Then, have a good long night’s sleep, (or not, I mean that is not as good but you do you.) […On the side, hey you should really prioritize your sleep. No, seriously, sleep cures stress and stress kills you.] While you sleep your subconscious mind works through the details and provides you with the best possible solution or solutions based on what you know and remember. Really you are tapping deep into your subconscious, so you really are using the power of things you don’t know that you know. The book gets even deeper still and basically labels this as an unlimited resource not dissimilar from getting messages from “The God”. Honestly, if you adhere to the research and proof of the Collective-Subconscious then this really isn’t that far-fetched.
Ask yourself a question a few times before you go to bed. Ask your subconscious to solve the problem. You will have solutions when you wake up.
So, when I woke up I was staggering around my bathroom in the dark. I hadn’t had any coffee yet and I was going to brew a cup. Then I realized I had an idea. When I record I could simply put the phone in airplane mode. That would disable all the phone calls, text messages, and alerts. I am not completely convinced it will disable the alarms set, (which really do cause the biggest problem), but there is only one way to try it out and that is to test it. Today was Saturday so Science failed for today… HA! but Monday isn’t that far away.
Also, I could not do my fucking pushups when it is time to take my son to school … …so there is that. [Com’on Improvement Dave. Get it together… Seriously! Improve, make a better plan…that’s like your thing. When it is time to take your kid to school don’t do pushups and record them with your phone, and post them to YouTube.com]
So, there you have it. It is not complicated, but it works every time if you take it seriously. Right before you sleep ask yourself the same question over and over. Meditate on what it is and what you know about it. Then fall asleep.
I made the mistake of looking at YouTube on my phone right before recording this. The YouTube Channel for Improvement Dave was reporting zero traffic on my phone. So, I recorded my video with the sub-context of “nobody watches any of my videos. This is futile. I have to be consistent anyway.” Now that I have had a moment, I logged in on my laptop I see that people are watching the videos and..
SHAT! I got a few likes. Not the reason I am doing any of this, this is mostly practice for me. This is about me being consistent. I am posting for the sake of consistintly posting. However, the main point of this is to hold myself accountable for doing the work. If I was not posting these videos I would have stopped doint the 50 pushups a day, and that is the point. Still, I was hoping that someone had at least watched a single video! Funny how our minds react so quickly on such a visceral level to people paying any attention to our work. I know that I am insignificant in the universe especially when you add the 4th dimension of time… but it still burned like hell.
Burned like hellfire.
Knocked Me Off My Game
What is especially interesting to me is on this day when I felt creating was futile my production was absolute garbage. I failed to record the preparation. I also failed to record Set 1. and Set 2 was cut in half. Was this a user error or were these alarms that popped up on my iPhone? Or was it both? I do not know. I do know that I should stop using my phone, which I also use in my life, to generate this content.
What is all this, Anyway?
I am doing 50 pushups a day for August 2023. My goal is to do 50 pushups every day for August 2023. My stretch goal is to do 50 quality pushups in a single set. Today I did two higher-quality sets of 25 pushups, for only 50 quality pushups in total! I think this is the best approach overall to do an actual set of 50 by the end of August.
I did a 5-minute breath work session between the two sets, which my iPhone filed to capture. In this breathework session, I did the basic 4-count in, 4-count hold, and 4-count exhale. Then when that feels comfortable I up it to 8-counts for all three. Normally I would do a 4 or 8-count hold after the exhale but having just done pushups and preparing to do more pushups I do not tend to hold on the exhale.
I’m Doing more than 1,550 Pushups for St. Jude – Please donate to my fundraiser!
I am doing 50 pushups a day for August 2023. My goal is to do 50 pushups every day for the month of August 2023. My stretch goal is to do 50 quality pushups in a single set. Today I did two higher-quality sets of 25 pushups, for only 50 quality pushups in total! I think this is the best approach overall to do an actual set of 50 by the end of August.
I did a 5-minute breath work session between the two sets, which is available to view after the two sets of pushups. In this video, I do the basic 4-count in, 4-count hold, and 4-count exhale. Then when that feels comfortable I up it to 8-counts for all three. Normally I would do a 4 or 8-count hold after the exhale but having just done pushups and preparing to do more pushups I do not tend to hold on the exhale.
I have a new process where I publish my video to YoutTube.com and then wait for that amazing platform to generate a transcript. Then I copy that transcript, run it through another amazing platform called Grammarly, respell my name from Calmer or Cohlmer to Kolmer, and then paste the transcript to my blog post. (Wouldn’t it be cool if my last name was “Calmer”. Not sure I could live up to that…) You can toggle the transcript on this video or read below while the video plays, or just read below because that is probably the fastest.
Please help me reach my goal
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this is Improvement Dave I’m David Kolmer thanks so much for tuning in you might notice that I have better things to say or I even say them better after the breath work and that might inspire you to give it a shot and it’s not rocket science you sit down you take some deep breaths if you have a thought you say oh I have a thought and then let it go down the river send it off it goes down the stream no serious meditator is going to never have had the thought that I can’t meditate I don’t know what I’m doing there’s a lot of stigma around it right but it’s a lot easier than we think it’s just about taking some deep breaths and being present and if you have the thought you let it go down the flow just don’t hold on to the thought and it’s that action or actually you could say that inaction that empowers you then to accept what’s happening react to it honestly and find a nice calm passive way to work with it I had been cutting back on carbs and then when I started these push-ups I added the carbs back in so I’ve been eating sugar and waffles and whatever I want before I do the push-ups and I really haven’t seen much better performance in the push-ups but I have seen some weight gain so I’m going to go back to more of the intermittent fasting not I haven’t eaten anything today except for a coffee I did add some cream into the coffee but that probably didn’t raise my glycemic index very much so I’m not that worried about the cream but if I really want to increase the weight loss I’ll probably cut that cream back out and then for the rest of the day I’m just going to eat fruits and vegetables high protein high fat I obviously will have some sugar some carbs at some point but really going to minimize that whenever possible also the microphone so I have a new microphone I couldn’t really tell the difference I put on my fancy headphones last night and it tasted I mean tasted tasted it when I put the microphone in my mouth it tasted the same the sound actually tastes sounded the sound actually was the same so I took the wind guard off the mic and I’m hoping that’s going to make a difference if it doesn’t I mean maybe I was just really excited um and expected more or maybe the microphone on my phone is just already really good either way I’m going to keep using the mic because it just makes sense I have the mic it plugs in um I should do a simple test to see if it’s actually working I think I’m going to do that on one of these recordings tap the phone and then tap the mic and make sure that it’s working anyway I’m here to do some push-ups so let’s go ahead and do the first 25 push-ups
Here we go, Oh another thing things I did some research on push-ups and I learned that I’m breathing wrong so I’ve been exhaling as I go down and then inhaling as I come up that’s actually backward it was easier for me to kind of say the number was I went down but apparently that’s wrong so I’m going to make an effort to save the number as I raise back up so I’m doing the exhale as I go up also I don’t know if I was doing this wrong but keeping the hands kind of closer to the body so what I’m on day 23 24 and I’m only now researching how to do push-ups laughs
but you know never stop improving right that’s how that’s my thing so I just wanted to share that wait maybe I’ve been doing this wrong okay is that one so breathe in as I go down what I think I have my hands in the right place there
1 2 This is pretty good isn’t it Three [Music]
Four I think it’s kind of like being up here and holding my breath and I could probably still do that [Music] but is that still a full sets
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[Music] soon
I’m living [Music] it is more difficult for me pretty soon as I go down [Music]
Wow, so I definitely had some thoughts racing through my head while I was doing that. Honestly, this is where I am today I’m trying to do quality push-ups I definitely started doing much less quality. Right those first couple days weren’t push-ups those were me trying to do push-ups I felt like that was 25 solid push-ups and I had this goal where I wanted to do 50 push-ups in a set and I ran that through the AI when I was riding on my blog and the blog hey I have said well you should maybe share the significance why is doing 50 push-ups so significant to you and I thought about it and then I didn’t really have anything to write… and then it also said share the significance of why you’re doing breath work I had plenty to say around that because it’s obvious. Why do I have this arbitrary goal of doing 50 push-ups in one set when the actual goal is just 50 push-ups a day? Well, it’s I guess it’s more of a long-term goal and maybe I won’t make that by the end of August and that’s fine. What I am going to do is do 50 push-ups a day every day in August. That’s definitely gonna happen unless I have something you know maybe it would be something you know something happens. there’s a word I’m fishing for that I can’t find it less anything significant negatively happens it’s gonna try to say it was a more eloquent way to say that I think I’m gonna hit that goal but if I don’t hit the goal of hitting 50 push-ups every I mean 50 push-ups in a single set but what I would consider quality push-ups that’s okay that was a stretchful so just wanted to share those thoughts it was kind of discombobulated I haven’t eaten yet today and maybe that’s why but I can speak further on that you know I I last month I consistently didn’t eat any sugar in fact I would say this year I have consistently not eaten any raw sugar the past five months I have consistently not eaten any carbohydrates ever and by that I mean processed carbohydrates Bagels Donuts bread cake I wasn’t eating any of that I was only eating broccoli carrots cauliflower brussels sprouts those are my carbohydrates and when I moved over to that obviously it was a lot more fiber there my body had to adjust but I noticed I would get full really quick I just need a handful of broccoli and Brussels sprouts and I’d be good for hours and that led to upping the fat upping the protein to a point where I would only eat one time a day the rest of the day was intermittent fasting and as long as you’re doing a ketogenic diet I found that easy right I should say as long as I was doing for my experience a ketogenic diet that was simple I lost maybe 30 pounds in a couple months and felt really good about myself I feel like I’m using these push-ups maybe as a excuse or a crutch to get back into eating children’s cereal for breakfast and that paid the price right I have headaches I crash every day now I want coffee in the afternoon I’m irritable and I’ve kind of been blaming that back on the 50 push-ups oh I have extra testosterone in my system so I’m an irritable jerk really I mean you were working out before Dave why is it now just no it wasn’t the push-ups it’s not these push-ups it’s me eating junk food again that’s what made me backslide into the afternoon crash right wanting more sugar that’s the problem with sugar it’s not necessarily that sugar is bad for you it really is but once you start eating it you crave it you want more because it’s that short-term burst of energy your insulin just gets jacked up and then all of a sudden you’re hungry again
so more to come on that I think I’m going to start writing more about health benefits because I’ve been doing a lot of research listening to a lot of very smart people on podcasts reading some books and really trying to get a handle on this whole Health thing and I don’t think that there’s any one thing that’s going to solve it for everyone I really don’t believe that ketogenic might not work for everyone I didn’t see really good results with that and I’d like to get back into that so that’s just something that’s on my plate moving forward okay I’m gonna do the breath work now I probably kind of already did it talking to you right now and right next uh right next next up you’re going to see me doing set two of push-ups and then if you want to hang around after that you can watch me do my breath work because what’s more exciting than Improvement day of doing breath work
Set 2
This is Improvement Dave I’m David Kolmer and I’m going to do another 25 push-ups probably just saw set one right I just finished set one I was a little bit hurried a little bit flustered trying tand o figure out my technique and then I did a whole lot of talking after that I did some breath work which you can watch after this video segment and see how I’m trying to get into a better perspective better approach through breath work and meditation
going to continue to use the advice on how to do push-ups better
20 six 27. 40. 43. oh we’re ready nice
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50 all right that was 50. and I feel like it’s the best quality I’ve ever done so I’m really happy with that not going to say I’m not proud I’m pretty proud right now As I mentioned I waited 23 days to actually research how to do push-ups I’ve been doing them for 23 days now and I’m finally reading up wait maybe I’m doing them wrong and I and I was and that’s fine I was breathing wrong right so yeah breathe in on the way down breathe out on the way up keep your hands kind of close to you I don’t think I had my hands in the wrong spot or my feet I was trying to keep my body as straight as possible but something else I read I found a really good blog or post for boxers they’re like all boxers do push-ups all the time because it’s a really good way to keep your up your up Ear upper body strength going but not really a good way to add extra muscle so I found that to be really interesting I was thinking aren’t these push-ups getting much easier like why don’t I really feel like
your day-to-day they stated that you don’t really gain much muscle from just doing push-ups if you want to do that you got to hit the gym well I kind of stopped hitting the gym when I did this because it was just wearing me out I didn’t feel like I was you know able to do the gym and this so with that in mind I might start doing my my what is it the five four hour body for our body I think that’s it yeah the guy who wrote the the four hour work week he also wrote the four hour body and think of his name right now Dan Harris I just had to ask my subconscious and there it came Dan Harris wrote this book and he has really good calisthenics either way either way I’m gonna get back into that I’m also going to start going back to the gym and we’ll see if I can build up the muscle mass to get back up to 50 quality push-ups I say get back up to to actually be able to do 50 quality push-ups and what I would call a single set all right this is David Comer with Improvement Dave thanks so much I am Improvement Dave and this is David Comer I need to get a rhythm for that don’t I don’t have a plug yet but these are kind of preparation videos if you haven’t noticed right I’m still getting my microphone together I’m still kind of I don’t have a logo really for real but I’m using my old logo from when I was a painter I still paint but not not like I like to and now I’m rambling so if you’d like to stay tuned watch some of the breath work I definitely encourage you to do so thanks so much for watching
don’t wanna leave without having my cup right you need this coffee cup
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Preparation – Breath Work
All right so taking some time uh five minutes to be specific to intentionally do some breath work in an intentional manner using a lot of meditation verbiage here just to allude to the fact that actually, this is a form of meditation I was running away from that before so I’m trying to embrace that now and just say yeah I meditate
not as much as I’d like and I’m not where I’d like to be on it but that’s I think that’s the whole point It’s like learning how to play golf OR garden an acre of land which I’m pointing to my yard I can show you that in a minute it just never ends there’s always room for improvement you just have to take that first step to what choose to improve yeah that’s a good plug I like that all right here we go
so I do a four-count in I hold for four and then exhale for four and then when that becomes comfortable I raise the count so I can count here with my hands so you kind of know what I’m doing and therefore I don’t have to talk while I’m doing the active breath
all right so that was about five minutes I do like using the microwave as a timer because then when it’s done it just turns off whereas um my laptop just beeps indefinitely I also don’t like the sound of the Google online timer because it’s obnoxious so take that to your algorithm Google I hope you find the transcript that I’m now adding to this blog and notating that a little bit your alarm is very obnoxious so I understand that you probably won’t get anything out of just watching me do my breath work or just viewing some improvement Dave online guy meditating or doing his breath work in between sets of push-ups but what I hope you might get out of it is the idea you might notice that I have better things to say or I even say them better after the breath work and that might inspire you to give it a shot and it’s not rocket science you sit down you take some deep breaths if you have a thought you say oh I have a thought and then let it go down the river send it off it goes down the stream it’s not complicated it is time consuming it does take time right and I think you don’t understand the value of it unless you’ve done it so there’s kind of a catch-22 there and a lot of people think that they’ve tried to do it but then didn’t do it but if you’ve tried to do it you’ve done it
it’s that simple I was listening to a podcast 10 happier Dan Harris I believe I probably got butchered his name I’m really bad with names I’m going to own that and he was interviewing a local Democratic senator who just lost how to how to fail with Grace was the title of the podcast if you want to look it up and something really resonated with me they said well you know I have these thoughts that I’ve tried to meditate and I don’t know how to meditate and the reaction from the other person was well that’s that’s a sign that you meditate no serious meditator is going to never have had the thought that I can’t meditate I don’t know what I’m doing there’s a lot of stigma around it right but it’s a lot easier than we think it’s just about taking some deep breaths and being present and if you have a thought you let it go down the flow just don’t hold on to the thought and it’s that action or actually you could say that inaction that empowers you then to accept what’s happening react to it honestly and find a nice calm passive way to work with it it’s not reactionary it’s not this happened we’re in crisis mode Let’s yell at the kids which happens and I’m not proud of it but if we can find a calm way to approach our life and approach it with gratitude humbleness acceptance then every time we reach a better outcome every time
Okay now this is just a quick test I’m going to tap the phone a little bit [Music] tap the phone on the other side and now I’m going to tap the mic tapping the mic so I just kind of want to test here that the mic is actually working….
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I am doing 50 pushups a day for August 2023. My goal is to do 50 pushups in a single set. Today I did two higher-quality sets of 25 pushups, for only 50 quality pushups in total! I think this is the best approach overall to do an actual set of 50 by the end of August.
In this video, I share that we had a recent death in the family. This caused some truncated schedules, so I got straight to work. I do not waste the opportunity to remind us that we should all be grateful for the lives and loved ones that we have. Give your loved ones an extra hug or phone call, tell them you love them all the time, and don’t forget to be thankful for what you have.
I did a 5-minute breath work session between the two sets, which is available to view after the two sets of pushups. In this video, I do the basic 4-count in, 4-count hold, and 4-count exhale. Then when that feels comfortable I up it to 8-counts for all three. Normally I would do a 4 or 8-count hold after the exhale but having just done pushups and preparing to do more pushups I do not tend to hold on the exhale. You will notice that in this video the breathwork is cut short. An alarm actually goes off on my phone turning off the video recording. I would say this is both bad and good because the alarm is to remind me to take my son to school, which is a top priority. However, on this specific day, he asked to attend the funeral we had for a family member, so the alarm was not critical. It still reminded me I have things to do today so start PUSHING UP DAVE!
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his is David Kolmer for Improvement Dave Hello you’re watching Improvement Dave This is David Kolmer with Improvement Dave this is day 23 from my understanding I do have my new microphone working so you might notice a difference in sound quality if you’re watching these back to back I have a feeling maybe people aren’t watching them back to back but just so you know I got a new mic so that’s cool I’m gonna go ahead and do 25 push-ups for the first set if I can do a little bit more that’s great if not well I’ll still get up to 50 in one day and all of us will get to heaven on time set one
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n=Not terrible right had a few pauses not too bad pretty good form As I said I have a lot to do today I had a lot going on today so fresh breakfast and added carbs back into my diet I was only eating ketogenic just fat and vegetables and fruits so I added carbohydrates back in because of these push-ups and I just ate like two pretty good sized waffles about 30 minutes ago and ideally I would have waited an hour or two but you know my privilege has been diminished today because I have a funeral to go to so rid of passing in the family
so it’s kind of a sad day
Okay so the breath work was diminished because I had another alarm go off it’s time to take my son to school so I need to knock these 25 push-ups out as fast as I can and then get things moving
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oh that was the end of the set too it was 50 push-ups total thanks so much for tuning in this is Improvement Dave and today I’m just reflecting on the fragility for agility of life and being thankful that we still have life cherishing the moments that we do have together and just making sure that we’re making the most of it and being thankful for what we have awesome thank you so much. see you down the line [Music]
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Okay I just finished set one I’m gonna set a timer for five minutes and do some simple breath work here just to calm myself down and put some oxygen back into my system I said Almost electrolytes we should drink some water I mean it’s a sign right
This is just water
systems telling me telling me that I’m thirsty
Freudian slips speaking very well today
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