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I am a compulsive volunteer for any “wow thing” flying by, there doesn’t seem to be anything in this world able to stop me from stepping forward at the drop of a hat – least of all myself! If it is far, remote, alien, not for everyone and I’d hear about it, to my mother’s despair, I’d go for it – a friend once told me that I was in the “let’s go and do it business”… he may well have been right! I’ve been like this for as far as I can remember and it has served me well, but occasionally not. Australia 1980 was one of those times when I’d gotten myself into trouble: I’d set out to work ‘on a station as a jackaroo’ (as a cow boy on a ranch in Aussie lingo) for the 6 months break between my 2nd and 3rd year in Agriculture College…

10,000 pushups challenge! How long do you think it will take?

Luckily, yesterday I finished a 1,000 push up challenge in 6 days, with numbers ranging from 90 to 240 pushups a day & an average of 166 pushups/day – so you see the calibration is fresh and accurate. Should I aim at the same numbers, we would be contemplating 10,000/166 = 60 days or two full months.
Without a day’s rest, 100 pushups/day would take 100 days; 200 means 50 days and 250, 40 days. My recent experience tells me that a few planned rest days will be good as well as a special allowance for skipped days, due to unexpected circumstances or pure and simple slacking.

I’ll aim at 10,000 pushups in 75 days with a target of 150 per day + a few rest days, and reserve the right to adjust these guidelines as we go forward.

Great, but hey, wait! You just did a 1,000 pushups challenge, before the 10,000 one! How did that happen?

Hummm, it was raining is Southern Africa!

WHAT?!

It was raining is Southern Africa! … (…) … Okay, let me explain: my karate colleague & k4L forum friend, masedisa from Southern Africa got bored with the rain that prevented her to train outside and announced that she would start a 1,000 pushups challenge for herself — for reasons explained above, I joined in! Am I in the “let’s go and do it” business or what?

LOL, and the 10,000, where was it raining?

Haha, I am glad you start to get the idea: no, it was not raining, Dent, another K4L forum member needed something to celebrate his 10,000 posts… Hold on a second! Before you ask: Yes, celebrating with pushups, I know, nobody said it had to make sense…

And, oh yes, before I go, in Australia, that ‘jackaroo’ ended up tearing off new born lamb testicles with his teeth as part of the work activities… But that’s a story for another time; please subscribe by RSS or e-mail so you don’t miss it.

Osu! Fred.

You too can join the 10,000 push ups challenge: join Kyokushin4life and enter your name on the 10,000 pushups challenge thread.

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