May 14, 2020 at 207am i did 65 mantra pushups. This means I’ve now done pushups everyday for four years without a single day off.
Hitting 4 years makes this my definite unbroken record. My last missed day was 5/13/16. Every day I’m extending this personal record.
From starting in 2012 into 2016 was a month or two shy of 4 years unbroken. Assuming I actually missed that day.
(I just couldn’t confirm it.)
In 2012 I didn’t note the day I started, I hadn’t expected to get more than maybe two years without missing, but I ended up getting nearly four years. Now I just don’t miss. Period.
The 2012-2016 streak was started running the daily pushup challenge alongside my friend thst I’d suggested do it as a way to have a win every day in the world. Day 11 I revealed to him that I’d been doing it alongside him since day 1. It was a good time to do so, the way I did it meant something. It would’ve been hypocritical not to do them. He started to drop, it was near the end of the day, he had barely remembered in time, and I surprised him by dropping with him.
Last August my streak on Duolingo errored out on me while on an otr delivery. Once back and thinking about the streak I literally sat down, wrote out each day’s start and stop locations, and made sure I could recall where I was for at least one set of pushups each and every day. Reps were done at rest stops, while pumping diesel, in hotels, and on the unload day (the day I was worried about) a few minutes past midnight into the day in the hotel room because I wasn’t sure when I’d have the opportunity after starting the shift at 7am, and didn’t want to have to do them when getting ready for work.
The streak alive.
I’ve written before I’ll make 5 years without a day off of pushups.
I’m at the 4 year mark! 5 years is a guarantee.
Miss my pushups? I’d rather die.
That shift was 18 hours, I got them in right before truck time.
I’ve done them dropping one forearm onto a pillow at 15, as I’d hurt my hand and it was before I could do one arms to keep the streak alive.
I had a wicked bad fever in April 2018 (ironic given the month, and considering that I’ve been healthy as a horse through the
corona pandemic of 2020), that I delusionally sweat out, and on the worst day did 3 pushups in the kitchen at my peak strength of the day because that’s how serious I take the streak. Delusionally feverish still requires I do pushups.
I’ve done so many pushups over the years.
Starting in 2nd grade Sensei made me. Sensei, thank you.
My parents and uncle had a phase (ending by early middle school) where they’d make me drop as corporal punishment for talking back, swearing, taking the Lord’s name in vain, etc.
Mom, Dad, Uncle, thank you.
In 6th grade I thought I had tied for the win out of all three gym classes with 50 reps. I gave it my all. The gym teacher counting said only 48 were up to standard.
As a freshman in high school I did around 50 reps backpack on in science class to prove a point.
“Your turn asshole”, as I brushed off my hands.
I’ve no joke dropped for punishment reps in a community college bathroom before. (Summer camp, cadet thing.) At the same location I did the backpack on reps again. If we’re gonna go standing to on our faces repeatedly why bother taking off the pack? I had asphalt embed itself in my palm from doing pushups in that parking lot.
However, that bathroom is probably my weirdest location.
I’ve done pushups next to the water, doing a set, getting in, repeat, Pool, ocean, that doesn’t matter.
It strikes me that pushups and swimming would build the ideal upper body.
I’ve been doing them practically daily for just about a dozen years.
I’ve not nearly milked them for all they’re worth.
I’ve done them in probably 30+ states.
It was 1000+ a week in 2015.
With the gym still covid closed I often do extra sets of pushups thinking about how this is building the base to explode off of when I’m able to do 50+ rep sets on the machine preacher curl, my weighted pushups, and weighted pullups again.
I keep having this brain thought “get weighted pushups with 90lb on my back to feel like it’s just bodyweight. No difference in effort, able to just rep out”, that’d give 405lb bench strength.
This is 1461 days of pushups.
1500 pushups on day 1500 sounds good to go.
Being used to doing some means you can do something significant when you mentally get into it.
I’ve had people freak about the pushup volume I’ve done, a 1-20-1 pyramid recently, but I’m used to volume. 100s of pushups, even a 1000 isn’t a mental sweat to me any.
The streak is alive.
Pushups everyday for four years.
Persistence & Tenacity