On just day two of the 2000 push-up challenge, and it’s looking more daunting than I originally imagined.
Push-ups are in isolation easy. I’ve done countless over my life, though never in large numbers over a short period.
Getting 110 finished on day 1 was easy, trying to get a little ahead of the daily 87 or so to hit the target. It made it seem like this would be the easiest thing in the world.
The part I forgot about is the muscle recovery / fatigue / pain on the next day. I’m clearly out of shape, making this doubly worthwhile of a goal, but also doubly difficult.
Still got ahead of the quota today, thankful I made today easier by doing extra yesterday, but interested to see how this plays out. Will I condition up quickly enough that I can start taking gap/recovery days and make it up on the fill days? Will the pain and fatigue gain quicker still?
I track this in my Obsidian daily notes. I added a numeric property to the template for the trial period, and on each new daily now it pulls the accumulated pushup_total from the day before forward, adding it with the push-ups done the day before. A convenient way to track it with my normal tracking without yet another spreadsheet.