That’s all well and good, you might intervene, but why boast with these numbers on Twitter?<\/p>\n Guess how I heard about the 100 pushups app for the first time? A status update on my Twitter feed caught my interest, I googled, found the site<\/a>, bought the app and started training. I don’t remember who posted that update, but I’m really glad that person decided to do so. While the mere fact that you can do 100 pushups buys you nothing, a strong upper body definitely has its benefits.<\/p>\n At first, I was reluctant to allow the app to post on Twitter, because I didn’t want to annoy my followers with useless updates. But after seeing good progress, I decided that posting my progress to Twitter might be actually of value to somebody.<\/p>\n If my tweets motivate only one of my 197 followers to complete this training program, it is well worth pissing of the other 196.<\/p>\n <\/a>* 100 pushups in six weeks sounds to good to be true? Well, calling it a six week program is a bit, let’s say, optimistic. It would be more accurate to call it a six level training program. The levels, which are named week 1 to 6, get more and more difficult and at some point, your progress will stagnate. I was able to keep up with the first three weeks, but I’m struggling to complete week 4. Still, a 100% increase in 6 weeks isn’t to bad and I’m confident that I’ll achieve the 100 in the not so far future.<\/span><\/p>\n Image adapted from\u00a0 “I Knew Pushups Would Pay Off Someday”<\/a> by reid.gilman<\/a>, licensed under Creative Commons BY-NC<\/a><\/span> Like almost everybody I know I despise the useless updates by apps like Foursquare and Farmville that clutter Twitter and Facebook with useless information. But if you follow me on Twitter, you might have noticed that I myself allowed the … Continue reading ![\"Doing](\"http:\/\/daniel.hepper.net\/blog\/wp-content\/pushup.jpg\" "\\"Doing")
<\/a>First, let me explain what the app does. The goal of the Hundred Pushups iPhone app is, who would have guessed, to enable you to do 100 consecutive pushups. It offers a six week training program*<\/a> and allows you to log your workouts. It’s definitely not the greatest app ever and has lots of room for improvement but\u00a0it gets the job done: when I started training with the app on the 25th of January, I could do 37 consecutive pushups. Today, about 6 weeks and 15 workouts later, this number has more than doubled to 77.<\/p>\n
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