My pushup count

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The Email I sent to my pals when I hit 200,002 pushups! Currently, as of 5/22/04 : 225,000. I’ve stopped counting ‘cause, man, that’s plenty to brag about. I still do them at the same rate-ish, I just figured there was no more need to mark ‘em all down. So this is the last update: 11/2/2004.

One could call it one fifth of a million. Or you can call it 0.2 million. Either way I’ve hit 200,002 pushups. If there was any time for a retrospective this is it.

I started counting my pushups on 1/3/1996 (no, it wasn’t a new year’s resolution). I pushed my 200,002nd pushup on 6/14/2003. This is 2,719 days which works out to 73.56 pushups/day. That is 3 pushups per hour (or 8 ten thousandths of a pushup per second).

However, I don’t do pushup’s every day (or second). My log shows that I’ve written a pushup entry for 1125 days ( about 24.8% of the total time) for 177.78 per exercise day. My workout routine probably runs 45 minutes so that is around 237 pushups per hour (or 6 one hundredths of a pushup per second). Kickin’.

My yearly average is 26,867 per year (my first year I did 14,661, so I’m getting better). This works out to 2,239 per month. At this rate I will hit 1,000,000 on 3/24/2030 which would be only 6 days before my 78th birthday!!! Kickin’.

My favorite pushups: 1, 66,666 ( it’s a number of the beast thing), 100,000, 123,456, and 200,000 ( I was gonna stop at 200,001 before I wrote this letter, but I was hot [DC is almost unbearable] and confused and did an extra pushup which got me to 200,002).

Looking forward to: #222,222, # 250,000, # 500,000, # 1,000,000.

Humbling note: Recently on NPR (where else) there was a story of a guy who set the new world record of pushups in one hour (see, I’m not the only freak). He did 3,669 pushups in one hour. Bastard. However, I’ll bet they were the "quick" half arm bend pushups, not the full "touch the chest, fully extend the arm" pushups I do. So there.

Final note: Were I able to do 3,669 pushups per hour then, with the hours I’ve logged, I’d have done by now about 3,095,718 pushups. That would be so cool, gotta work on it.

Julius "Mr PushUp" Schoen

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