500 Club [June 9th-July 20th]

[T2sarahconnor]

Goal of the 500 club is to do 500 of something every week. This can either be part of your workout goals or in addition to.

Examples would be -----this week I pledge to do 500 push ups. I would count full push-ups as 1pt, knee push-ups as .5, counter push-ups as .25

Squats are squats, lunges are lunges, burpees are burpees, pull ups could be negatives, assisted, or full etc.

Any ideas or thoughts appreciated. I just wanted a thread to challenge myself to do more and give and get encouragement.

Anyone is welcome.

[Xena]

This sounds awesome!

 

I'll do 500 situps. Can scale down to crunches if necessary, but they count for 0.5 :-)

 

Future ideas...

  Jumprope...500 jumps (but working in attempts at double unders)

  500 minutes of housework/chores (yikes!)

  500 seconds of planking...500 seconds of wall squat...500 seconds in headstand

  500 punches with dumbells

[T2sarahconnor]

Great ideas. I am doing 500 squats this week. It is in addition to my BBWW.

Like the crunch at .5 and the future ideas!

[Xena]

Did 80 (situps) today. Have a bad cold  , so going to lay on the couch for the rest of the day.

[T2sarahconnor]

Hope you feel better! I did 200 counter push ups which equals 50 regular. I like the counter ones over the knee ones because I get a better range of motion. It helped me add 5 to my total of regular push-ups in a row. I'm hoping to add 5 more this go around.

[ChristArtist]

I'm going to watch...this week has been a bust...but, I like the idea...sort of fills in some of the lack with the pushup pvp...

But, if I can do 100 wall pushups a day...then, I'm a go!

Can't do the squats...not sure what else I can do at this time...but, I amazed myself by the end of the pushup pvp's...I'm sure I'll do it again!

 

And I still can't find how to sign up for these things! 

[T2sarahconnor]

I don't think there is any sign up for the PvP's. I didn't make one or sign one, just created the thread. With no push up game I wanted something to challenge me. Hopefully it can inspire others. Yours could be 500 over the six weeks?

I am open for anything.

[Xena]

 Yours could be 500 over the six weeks?

I am open for anything.

 

..yep, I agree. It's fun to have company, so let's make this work for anyone who wants to join.

 

I did 100 situps today, so I'm up to 180.

 

My I do my own version of "counter pushups" on the stairs. I like that because It's easy to adjust the difficulty based on how many stairs I use.

[paulapalooza]

Now I'm thinking of doing 500 seconds of handstand per week. That would be fun. I'm definitely gonna lose track of seconds so I'll just take this as a reason to spend more time upside down in the day.

[T2sarahconnor]

Bring on the handstands!

[T2sarahconnor]

Did 200 counter push-ups, 20 knee push ups and 15 reg push ups yesterday.

Total 75, week total 125.

[Xena]

Did 200 counter push-ups, 20 knee push ups and 15 reg push ups yesterday.

Total 75, week total 125.

Keep 'em coming Sarah! You start new weeks on Sunday or Monday?? Since I started this challenge on Tuesday, I might need to give myself until the end of Monday (we'll see), but I'll start my week 2 challenge (whatever it ends up being) whenever you do :-)

[Xena]

p.s. Wow! 15 regular pushups! I think I have done 4 or 5 so far...in my whole life :-)  (so far)

[T2sarahconnor]

p.s. Wow! 15 regular pushups! I think I have done 4 or 5 so far...in my whole life :-) (so far)

I can now do 5-6 in a row! It helped doing a push-up PvP last challenge. The counter ones really strengthened me more than I thought!

I start challenges on Sunday. May not make this week, but I will do another push up one before challenge up.

Today just 200 counter=50+125=175 for the week.

[IronGlider]

Holy smokes Sarah! Serious win going on here! :-O

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[Xena]

120 Situps today (300 for the week). Not part of my 500 for this week but I managed a couple full pushups (non-consecutive...I'll build up though!)

[Xena]

100 situps today...400 done, 100 to go. Looking forward to starting something different on Monday.

[Xena]

Sit-ups all done.

 

Tomorrow I'll start on 500 seconds of plank (forearm plank) and 500 seconds of wall squat.

 

There's definitely a bit of an art in picking a good challenge for this. The sit-ups were just ok. I picked it because I was still kind of under the weather, and it was something I was pretty confident I could finish. I don't think this next one should be too hard, but anything that makes me do some planks is probably a good idea. I haven't done squats in ages, so we'll see how my legs feel on this one.

[T2sarahconnor]

Last week did 400 push ups. Not quite there but busy week.

This week.........squats

So far 100 done. Legs hurt this morning.

[Xena]

Good job on the squats...I'll admit, I was afraid to take on squats...500 sounds hard! I'll do a bunch for the mini challenge this week, so I'll get to give them a try.

 

1 min plank today (2:45 for the week)

 and 1 min wall squat...couldn't do the wall squat all at once (2:45 for the week)

[Xena]

Today 2 x 1 min plank  (up to 4:45...285 seconds)

1 min + 40 seconds = 100 seconds wall squat (up to 4:25...260 seconds)

 

...good news if you are doing the mini challenges...200 squats will be nothing for you :-)

[Xena]

Today 2x1min plank and 2x1 min wall squat. Up to 405 seconds plank and 380 seconds squat.

[Xena]

All done! 40+55 s plank; 1:08 + :52 wall squat.

[T2sarahconnor]

Nice job!

I ended up doing my last 50 squats last night at 10 pm before bed.

Hit the 500!

Next week back to push ups!

[Xena]

Great job Sarah! I managed 100 squats on Friday, and it didn't kill me (although I'm still sore), so I'll try 500 squats for next week (I start on Mondays). I'll count basically any kind of squat...regular full squats, or half squats if they are plyo (jumps). Every 10s of wall squat will also count for 1.