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Day 19 – Push-Ups for St. Jude

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. I pushed myself very hard to get up to 50 pushups in a “single set” but I paused a lot during that set. So much so that it probably wasn’t really a set. Today I repeated what I did yesterday 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.

However, when you watch set two you notice that when I thought I was recording I was not, and when I meant to stop the recording I am talking to my daughter about eating dinner. Oh, well. I follow through with footage of me purchasing and laying down 3,500 pounds (lbs US) of river rock. It used to be difficult for me to throw this rock but now I found it kind of fun. I guess that is one of the benefits of doing 50 pushups a day.

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Day 18 – Push-Ups for St. Jude

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.

Last night I updated yesterday’s post to include pictures of completing the offload of 6,000 pounds (lbs US) of wet soil into my yard.

This morning I made it back out to the local composting site to get 2 yards of natural cut mulch. I plan to throw that down this afternoon, but that is only 800 to 1,000 pounds (lbs US)

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Day 17 – Push-Ups for St. Jude

I am doing 50 pushups a day for August 2023. My goal is to do 50 pushups in a single set. Today I repeated the goal of 50 pushups in a single set, but took it down to 55 pushups in total! I stated in the video that I took the total down to 55 today so I could go shovel 2 square yards of dirt into my yard, but when I got to the composting site their loader was down. I will do that first thing in the morning.

I made a joke yesterday about getting to 55 pushups. I spent 7 years teaching in Thailand and one thing I learned is that when people text they don’t type HAHAHA they type 555+ because the number 5 is pronounced HA! So I speak some Thai at the end of this video thanking my viewers and asking for donations. LOL!

I have now promised two times that I am reducing my pushup count because I am getting 2 yards (~5,000 lbs to 6,000 lbs) of soil and throwing it in my yard. So, today I did that and wanted to include that experience in my video to hold myself accountable. The woman told me she would not load the dirt into my trailer because it had rained two days ago. I asked her to do it anyway and she said no. She suggested I drive “20 minutes south” to the other location, but that location is more than 20 minutes away.

Then I drove away and went and looked at the dirt which was not that wet because it rained just a bit two days ago. I went back and nicely asked her to just load me anyway and she said no again. Then the loader in the shipping container office said, “I’ll load him if he wants.” I said, “Yes that is what I want.” This is not what I would call great customer service, but at least they loaded me in the end. I had not seen her before so I would guess she is new.

At the end of the video, I have a helper shoveling the dirt with me.

We got it done by the end of the day, but we ran out of time for our sister to do My Little Pony Yoga with Cosmic Kids Yoga. Promises were made to do that yoga session over the weekend.

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Day 16 – Push-Ups ๕๕วิดพื้น

“ฉันพูดภาษาไทยในวิดีโอนี้”
-การปรับปรุงเดวิด

I made a joke of getting to 55 pushups. I spent 7 years teaching in Thailand and one thing I learned is that when people text they don’t type HAHAHA they type 555+ because the number 5 is pronounced HA! So I speak some Thai at the end of this video thanking my viewers and asking for donations. LOL! https://youtu.be/5kKyJ–Zl4I

ฉันวิดพื้น 50 ครั้งต่อวันในเดือนสิงหาคม 2023 เป้าหมายของฉันคือวิดพื้น 50 ครั้งในเซ็ตเดียว วันนี้ฉันตั้งเป้าวิดพื้น 50 ครั้งในเซ็ตเดียวซ้ำ แต่ลดไปทั้งหมด 55 ครั้ง! ฉันระบุในวิดีโอว่าฉันลดจำนวนทั้งหมดลงเหลือ 55 ในวันนี้เพื่อที่ฉันจะได้โกยดินขนาด 2 ตารางหลาในสวนของฉัน แต่เมื่อฉันไปถึงไซต์ทำปุ๋ยหมัก รถตักของพวกเขากลับไม่ทำงาน ฉันจะทำอย่างแรกในตอนเช้า ฉันทำเรื่องตลกด้วยการวิดพื้นถึง 55 ครั้ง ฉันใช้เวลา 7 ปีในการสอนที่ประเทศไทย และสิ่งหนึ่งที่ฉันได้เรียนรู้คือ เวลามีคนส่งข้อความ พวกเขาไม่ได้พิมพ์ HAHAHA พวกเขาพิมพ์ 555+ เพราะเลข 5 อ่านว่า HA! ฉันจึงพูดภาษาไทยในตอนท้ายของวิดีโอนี้เพื่อขอบคุณผู้ชมและขอรับบริจาค ฮ่าๆ!

ฉันวิดพื้นมากกว่า 1,550 ครั้งเพื่อ St. Jude – โปรดบริจาคให้กับงานระดมทุนของฉัน!

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Day 15 – Push-Ups for St. Jude

I am doing 50 pushups a day for August 2023. My goal is to do 50 pushups in a single set. Today I reached that goal of 50 pushups in a single set, and got up to 85 pushups in total!

I had some help counting today. My daughter wanted to go late to school, well that changes to stay home from school in the video, to “watch my do pushups” but then she had a conflict because she wanted to watch Bluey more. I can’t say I blame her there.

In this video, I mention the metabolic age as determined by the VO2 max test. I have not taken this test but I would be curious to find out what my metabolic age is as opposed to my biological age. I joke in the video that I saw another participant in this challenge doing pushups very quickly and I joke that his metabolic age is probably like 12. More on that topic here:

https://www.hopkinsmedicine.org/heart_vascular_institute/cardiology/cardiac-rehabilitation/exercise-testing.html

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Day 13 – Push-Ups for St. Jude

I am doing 50 pushups a day for August 2023 to raise money for St. Jude research hospital. I chose this charity because they provide free medical procedures to children. My goal is to do 50 pushups in a single set. Today I reached a new record of 45 pushups in a single set and got up to 70 pushups total.

I reached this goal in spite of drinking multiple beers, vodka, and Sake the night before …

…AND doing a 5.21-mile offroad biking trip that morning.

On a side note, I am toying around with doing a mountain biking challenge in September! I am reaching out to friends as accountability partners. (And safety partners to be honest.) We are also looking at getting my son a nice bike for his birthday at the end of August so it could be some nice family bonding time also!

Have to get my wife and daughter good bikes around the holidays in December. We celebrate all the things then!

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Day 12 – Push-Ups for St. Jude

I am doing 50 pushups a day for August 2023. My goal is to do 50 pushups in a single set. Today I reached a new record of 42 pushups in a single set and got up to 67 pushups total.

Check out the video of pain!

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Day 11 – Push-Ups for St. Jude

I am doing 50 pushups a day for August 2023. My goal is to do 50 pushups in a single set. Today I reached a new record of 41 pushups in a single set and got up to 61 pushups total.

Unfortunately, my camera was not recording for the second set so you will have to take my word for it on the total, but I got the 41 in one set recorded!

At 12:04 I feel the LOVE!

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Day 10 – Push-Ups for St. Jude

My goal is to do 50 pushups in a single set. I am doing 50 pushups a day for August 2023. I reached a new record of 36 pushups in a single set.

In this video, I also delve into more of the preparation I am doing to be able to continuously do 50 pushups a day without taking a day off for repair.

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Day 9 – Push-Ups for St. Jude

My goal is to do 50 pushups in a single set. I am doing 50 pushups a day for August 2023. I reached a new record of 32 pushups in a single set.

In this video, I also delve into more of the preparation I am doing to be able to continuously do 50 pushups a day without taking a day off for repair.

Ice Baths

I have been taking ice baths every day after my pushups. Today I added all of the ice I had prepared. I hope it got down close to 10 degrees Celsius but I didn’t take a temperature. Previously I have only stayed in the ice bath for 4 minutes, but today I did the full 15 minutes of the cold plunge

Breathwork

In the video, I share that in between sets I have been doing some simple breathwork.

Breathe in for 4 counts. Hold for 4 counts and exhale for 4 counts. Normally you would hold for 4 after you exhale but I am finding that skipping that is beneficial to load more oxygen into my system. In the video I call this a “very calm hyperventilating,” and it has helped me do more pushups in my second set.

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