I'm going to do 100 push-ups!

Well, not today...

And that picture's not me...

I turned 44 last month, and for some reason that hit me pretty hard. I've decided as part of my ongoing campaign to get myself into the best shape of my life I'm going to work up to doing 100 push-ups in a single set. I've found a website that has a week-by-week routine I am going to follow and a self-test I can take to see where I am already.

Here's the site I'm going to use, hundredpushups.com, and this is the test. Wish me luck...

OK! Not bad! Better than I thought it would go. I was able to do 17 push-ups, which puts me into the "advanced" category. I think I'm supposed to wait to start the program. The site's not really clear... I'm going to start now anyway! No time like the present. The routine for week one, day one is four sets of 10, 12, seven and seven reps, then a last set of as many as I can do, but at least nine. Sixty seconds rest between sets. Let's go...

That was tough. None of the sets was that hard except the last one, but I got it done. Nothing hurts.