{"id":21114,"date":"2018-11-06T13:03:57","date_gmt":"2018-11-06T18:03:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/whatsgood.vitaminshoppe.com\/?p=21114"},"modified":"2019-01-10T14:24:18","modified_gmt":"2019-01-10T19:24:18","slug":"30-day-pushup-challenge","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vitaminshoppe.com\/blog\/30-day-pushup-challenge\/","title":{"rendered":"I Did Pushups Every Day For A Month\u2013\u2013And The Results Were Incredible"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I\u2019m a firm believer in the phrase \u2018anything boys can do, girls can do better.\u2019 But while that definitely holds true at my job and even on the subway (looking at you, man-spreaders), it goes right out the window the moment I step foot into my regular workout class.<\/p>\n<p>Pullups? Chin-to-the-ground pushups? Not so much. I stick to my corner of the studio and pray my boot-camp instructor doesn\u2019t meander over to see me pitifully flail.<\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s not that I can\u2019t do a single full pushup. But 20? Must be nice.<\/p>\n<p>While I have full faith in my lower-body strength (I can squat more than my body weight), my upper-body strength just isn\u2019t there. I can\u2019t even do a cartwheel. Nor can I make it across the monkey bars.<\/p>\n<h2><strong>The 30-Day Pushup Challenge<\/strong><\/h2>\n<p>Unsatisfied with my meager upper-body abilities, I decided to prove to myself that I could bang out pushups like the boys. Not that there\u2019s anything wrong with pushup modifications\u2014but I was ready for the challenge!<\/p>\n<p>The game plan: Every day for 30 days, I\u2019d perform as many full-body, perfect-form pushups as I could. I hoped the number of reps I could do would gradually increase as the days passed.<\/p>\n<p>While I knew that I\u2019d inevitably grow stronger by the end of the month, I had no clue what amazing truth my body was about to reveal.<\/p>\n<h2><strong>Day 1: I Am The Most NONATHLETIC Human On Earth<\/strong><\/h2>\n<p>The first day of my pushup experiment happened to land on a particularly hectic day at work. With no time at the gym, I had to make do with performing my first set of pushups at the office\u2014in tight jeans and kitten heels, nonetheless.<\/p>\n<p><noscript><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" data-attachment-id=\"21118\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/www.vitaminshoppe.com\/blog\/30-day-pushup-challenge\/julie-pushup-beginning\/\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.vitaminshoppe.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/julie-pushup-beginning.jpg?fit=480%2C431&ssl=1\" data-orig-size=\"480,431\" data-comments-opened=\"0\" data-image-meta=\"{"aperture":"0","credit":"","camera":"","caption":"","created_timestamp":"0","copyright":"","focal_length":"0","iso":"0","shutter_speed":"0","title":"","orientation":"1"}\" data-image-title=\"julie pushup beginning\" data-image-description data-image-caption data-medium-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.vitaminshoppe.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/julie-pushup-beginning.jpg?fit=300%2C269&ssl=1\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.vitaminshoppe.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/julie-pushup-beginning.jpg?fit=480%2C431&ssl=1\" tabindex=\"0\" role=\"button\" class=\"size-full wp-image-21118 aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.vitaminshoppe.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/julie-pushup-beginning.jpg?resize=480%2C431&ssl=1\" alt width=\"480\" height=\"431\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.vitaminshoppe.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/julie-pushup-beginning.jpg?w=480&ssl=1 480w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.vitaminshoppe.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/julie-pushup-beginning.jpg?resize=300%2C269&ssl=1 300w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.vitaminshoppe.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/julie-pushup-beginning.jpg?resize=272%2C244&ssl=1 272w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 480px) 100vw, 480px\"><\/noscript><img decoding=\"async\" data-attachment-id=\"21118\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/www.vitaminshoppe.com\/blog\/30-day-pushup-challenge\/julie-pushup-beginning\/\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.vitaminshoppe.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/julie-pushup-beginning.jpg?fit=480%2C431&ssl=1\" data-orig-size=\"480,431\" data-comments-opened=\"0\" data-image-meta=\"{"aperture":"0","credit":"","camera":"","caption":"","created_timestamp":"0","copyright":"","focal_length":"0","iso":"0","shutter_speed":"0","title":"","orientation":"1"}\" data-image-title=\"julie pushup beginning\" data-image-description data-image-caption data-medium-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.vitaminshoppe.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/julie-pushup-beginning.jpg?fit=300%2C269&ssl=1\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.vitaminshoppe.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/julie-pushup-beginning.jpg?fit=480%2C431&ssl=1\" tabindex=\"0\" role=\"button\" class=\"size-full wp-image-21118 aligncenter lazyload\" src=\"data:image\/svg+xml,%3Csvg%20xmlns%3D%22http%3A%2F%2Fwww.w3.org%2F2000%2Fsvg%22%20viewBox%3D%220%200%20480%20431%22%3E%3C%2Fsvg%3E\" alt width=\"480\" height=\"431\" srcset=\"data:image\/svg+xml,%3Csvg%20xmlns%3D%22http%3A%2F%2Fwww.w3.org%2F2000%2Fsvg%22%20viewBox%3D%220%200%20480%20431%22%3E%3C%2Fsvg%3E 480w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 480px) 100vw, 480px\" data-srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.vitaminshoppe.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/julie-pushup-beginning.jpg?w=480&ssl=1 480w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.vitaminshoppe.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/julie-pushup-beginning.jpg?resize=300%2C269&ssl=1 300w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.vitaminshoppe.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/julie-pushup-beginning.jpg?resize=272%2C244&ssl=1 272w\" data-src=\"https:\/\/www.vitaminshoppe.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/julie-pushup-beginning.jpg\"><\/p>\n<p>Oh, and I awkwardly asked a coworker I didn\u2019t know well to snap a picture of me for this piece.<\/p>\n<p>As if the circumstances weren\u2019t dismal enough, I was only able to squeeze out seven measly pushups. One more and I would have fallen to the floor, perspiration coating my brow and pits.<\/p>\n<h2><strong>Day 2: Well, This Isn\u2019t Much Better<\/strong><\/h2>\n<p>My second day of pushups was slightly more successful\u201410 pushups! I attributed the improvement to the fact that I actually did these pushups in workout clothes at the gym, and therefore wasn\u2019t fearful of flashing my boss while doing them.<\/p>\n<p>Still, the pushups weren\u2019t easy. (Truthfully, I think I\u2019ve had an aversion to them since we were forced to complete them for the Presidential Fitness Test back in grade school, which, c\u2019mon, was absolutely cruel.)<\/p>\n<p><strong>Related: <\/strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.vitaminshoppe.com\/blog\/upper-body-strength-moves\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong>5 Key Exercises That Will Help Women Build Upper-Body Strength<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Given my first two performances, I was seriously doubting how successful my experiment\u2014and the article I\u2019d write about it\u2014would really be.<\/p>\n<h2><strong>Day 3-6: Am I Even Improving? <\/strong><\/h2>\n<p>By the sixth day of my experiment, my optimism had fallen even further.<\/p>\n<p>I\u2019d been able to boost my total number of pushups up to 13, but that number seemed\u2026 underwhelming. I felt like there was no conceivable way I could consistently up my reps for 30 days.<\/p>\n<h2><strong>Day 7-12: Slowly But Surely Increasing In Strength <\/strong><\/h2>\n<p>Despite the tough beginning of my 30-day pushup experiment, something miraculous started to happen the seventh, eighth and ninth day: I was growing stronger\u2014and visibly muscular, too.<\/p>\n<p>On day 12, I was able to execute 22 solid pushups with my face lowering to just an inch or so above the ground in each descent. I was pretty sure I\u2019d never been able to do that many pushups in a single shot before.<\/p>\n<p>Suddenly I felt re-inspired and rejuvenated for my next attempt.<\/p>\n<h2><strong>Day 13-20: Okay, This Hurts! <\/strong><\/h2>\n<p>My chest, biceps and triceps were a tiny bit sore throughout the first two weeks of my pushup challenge. But that slight, annoying twinge quickly turned painful around the halfway mark. After churning out 25 pushups on day 13, I was legitimately sore.<\/p>\n<p>Even worse? Over the course of the next few days, I totally burned out. By day 20, I could only perform a pitiful 10 pushups.<\/p>\n<h2><strong>Day 21: I. Can\u2019t. Do. This. <\/strong><\/h2>\n<p>After 20 consecutive days of pushups, a feat I had never attempted before, my body and my ego were hurting\u2014bad.<\/p>\n<p>As exhilarating as it was to hit that 25<sup>th<\/sup> pushup a week earlier, my current fatigue made hitting that number every day for the rest of the month seem impossible. My chest, shoulders, biceps, and triceps <em>burned<\/em>. Even simple tasks, like shampooing my hair, took a gargantuan effort. So, I decided to take a day off.<\/p>\n<h2><strong>Day 22-29: Onward And Upward<\/strong><\/h2>\n<p>The next day, I still felt tired, sore, and utterly exhausted. But as I got dressed for work that morning, something caught my eye in the mirror that I\u2019d never seen before in my life: my <em>deltoid<\/em>. (FYI: The deltoid is that roundish muscle located at the uppermost part of the arm and top of the shoulder.)<\/p>\n<p>It was a part of my body I had never seen such definition in before, and there could be only one cause for its newfound pop: the pushups.<\/p>\n<p>Fired up by the sight of my newly-visible muscle, on day 22 I performed 25 pushups with a vengeance. I decided to taper the number of pushups I\u2019d perform every other day for the rest of the challenge so my muscles could get some rest.<\/p>\n<p>With the end in sight, I felt a new surge of motivation. Thanks to that momentum (and probably the extra rest, too), I charged through a whopping 45 pushups on day 29.<\/p>\n<p>I was really proud of myself for being able to perform 45 pushups without dropping down to my knees, but it definitely came with some pain.<\/p>\n<p>As I got further and further into my 30-day experiment, I began to notice a few strangely uncomfortable side effects while doing my pushups, including a rush of blood to my head and hands, and a subtle sense of nausea.<\/p>\n<h2><strong>Day 30: The Final Day (No Pressure Or Anything\u2026) <\/strong><\/h2>\n<p>On my final day, I made it to my 45<sup>th<\/sup> pushup despite the throbbing of my entire upper body. I could feel the blood surging towards my fattening fingertips. But, like in the final leg of a race, when the finish line is in sight, something magical happened.<\/p>\n<p><noscript><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" data-attachment-id=\"21120\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/www.vitaminshoppe.com\/blog\/30-day-pushup-challenge\/julie-pushup-mid\/\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.vitaminshoppe.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/julie-pushup-mid.jpg?fit=640%2C480&ssl=1\" data-orig-size=\"640,480\" data-comments-opened=\"0\" data-image-meta=\"{"aperture":"0","credit":"","camera":"","caption":"","created_timestamp":"0","copyright":"","focal_length":"0","iso":"0","shutter_speed":"0","title":"","orientation":"1"}\" data-image-title=\"julie pushup mid\" data-image-description data-image-caption data-medium-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.vitaminshoppe.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/julie-pushup-mid.jpg?fit=300%2C225&ssl=1\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.vitaminshoppe.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/julie-pushup-mid.jpg?fit=640%2C480&ssl=1\" tabindex=\"0\" role=\"button\" class=\"size-full wp-image-21120 aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.vitaminshoppe.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/julie-pushup-mid.jpg?resize=640%2C480&ssl=1\" alt width=\"640\" height=\"480\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.vitaminshoppe.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/julie-pushup-mid.jpg?w=640&ssl=1 640w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.vitaminshoppe.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/julie-pushup-mid.jpg?resize=300%2C225&ssl=1 300w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.vitaminshoppe.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/julie-pushup-mid.jpg?resize=272%2C204&ssl=1 272w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\"><\/noscript><img decoding=\"async\" data-attachment-id=\"21120\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/www.vitaminshoppe.com\/blog\/30-day-pushup-challenge\/julie-pushup-mid\/\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.vitaminshoppe.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/julie-pushup-mid.jpg?fit=640%2C480&ssl=1\" data-orig-size=\"640,480\" data-comments-opened=\"0\" data-image-meta=\"{"aperture":"0","credit":"","camera":"","caption":"","created_timestamp":"0","copyright":"","focal_length":"0","iso":"0","shutter_speed":"0","title":"","orientation":"1"}\" data-image-title=\"julie pushup mid\" data-image-description data-image-caption data-medium-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.vitaminshoppe.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/julie-pushup-mid.jpg?fit=300%2C225&ssl=1\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.vitaminshoppe.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/julie-pushup-mid.jpg?fit=640%2C480&ssl=1\" tabindex=\"0\" role=\"button\" class=\"size-full wp-image-21120 aligncenter lazyload\" src=\"data:image\/svg+xml,%3Csvg%20xmlns%3D%22http%3A%2F%2Fwww.w3.org%2F2000%2Fsvg%22%20viewBox%3D%220%200%20640%20480%22%3E%3C%2Fsvg%3E\" alt width=\"640\" height=\"480\" srcset=\"data:image\/svg+xml,%3Csvg%20xmlns%3D%22http%3A%2F%2Fwww.w3.org%2F2000%2Fsvg%22%20viewBox%3D%220%200%20640%20480%22%3E%3C%2Fsvg%3E 640w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" data-srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.vitaminshoppe.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/julie-pushup-mid.jpg?w=640&ssl=1 640w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.vitaminshoppe.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/julie-pushup-mid.jpg?resize=300%2C225&ssl=1 300w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.vitaminshoppe.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/julie-pushup-mid.jpg?resize=272%2C204&ssl=1 272w\" data-src=\"https:\/\/www.vitaminshoppe.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/julie-pushup-mid.jpg\"><\/p>\n<p>Despite my aching body, I squeezed out an additional 15 (yes, 15!) pushups\u2014with a few pauses to regain my sanity, of course. After 30 days of physical and mental challenge, I was utterly shocked: I\u2019d somehow just performed a whopping 60 pushups.<\/p>\n<h2><strong>The Final Results: Success!<\/strong><\/h2>\n<p>My 30-day pushup experiment proved to me that if you commit to literally <em>anything<\/em> for an entire month, you will see incredible (and surprising) changes.<\/p>\n<p>Not only was I able to perform 60 pushups (with a few minor breaks here and there, sure) in a single sitting, but my physical appearance had transformed, too. My upper body looked stronger.<\/p>\n<p>That said, my muscles definitely suffered some serious wear and tear towards the end of this challenge. To make sure I give my muscles enough rest to continue growing and gaining strength, I\u2019ll probably incorporate pushups into my workouts a couple times per week from now on. I can\u2019t wait to see how I progress!<\/p>\n<p><em><strong>Diggin\u2019 What\u2019s Good? For more essential health facts, tips, and inspiration, joi<\/strong><\/em><em><strong>n our Facebook communities, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/groups\/EatingHealthyVitaminShoppe\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Eating Healthy<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/groups\/StayingFitVitaminShoppe\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Staying Fit<\/a>, today!<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I\u2019m a firm believer in the phrase \u2018anything boys can do, girls can do better.\u2019 But while that definitely holds true at my job and even on the subway (looking at you, man-spreaders), it goes right out the window the moment I step foot into my regular workout class. Pullups? Chin-to-the-ground pushups? Not so much.<a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.vitaminshoppe.com\/blog\/30-day-pushup-challenge\/\">Read More <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">I Did Pushups Every Day For A Month\u2013\u2013And The Results Were Incredible<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":173,"featured_media":21116,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[4,8,9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-21114","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-fitness","category-stories","category-the-latest"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v23.7 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>I Did Pushups Every Day For A Month\u2013\u2013And The Results Were Incredible<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Julie decided to stick it to her lame upper-body strength and committed to doing pushups every day for a month. 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