52K All The Way!

My name is Eric Maloney and I have a problem.  I like to identify myself as an athlete, but in wrestling I lost more than I won, in street ball I have been injured more than I won, I have not been the fastest, nor the strongest, or accused of being nimble.  What I have had, and continue to have is a blind get back up and try again, and again, and again attitude.  I chalk it up to being Irish Catholic with a streak of German heritage that fuels my stubborn demeanor, or a lack of intelligence to know better, take your pick. Additionally, you sprinkle in a dash of hair brained ideas and this leads me into my next challenge I have now set for myself, and will not be able to shake until complete (this is why it is good I have never tried meth!).

This is my initial blog posting to chronicle my journey.  For some reason I have decided to see if I can do 52,000 push ups within a years time.  On the surface that may sound like a lot, but if you break it down its really not.  Its 1,000 push ups a week, or 200 push ups a day Monday - Friday.  There are a number of different ways to do push ups.  Recently, The Spartan Race (http://www.spartanrace.com/) had a monthly challenge of 30 push ups for 30 days.  Someone did a video blog each day showing different push ups that can be done.  My goal will be to do your normal elbows in chest to the ground push up 52,000 times in a given year.  Why you may ask?  Because, I want to see if I can do it.  Really no other reason than that. Maybe get a little more buff and have to buy a few new t-shirts, possibly land a gig with Abercrombie, you know, nothing big.  Additionally, I want to try and document my journey at least once a week to see how it goes.  Missing one day or multiple days of push ups will have an accumulating affect that will be very difficult to overcome, so it will take discipline and many days of referring to myself as a "pussy" to get through everything.  I do not doubt that I can do it, it will be a matter of trudging through it when I get board.  After I tore my ACL 3 years ago I was doing 1000 a week but I think after 3 months I decided to do some thing else.  This time I want to document my progress to help ensure that I stick with it.  Additionally, I still plan on doing all my normal workouts just to spice things up!  We'll see how it goes, actually, I already started last week.  Listed below is my journey starting.

Anyone wishing to join me feel free to post your updates and progress!  52K all the way!

Day	Amount	Where Completed	Push Ups to Go	Total Completed
Start			52000
4/22/2014	200	In Office	51800	200
4/23/2014	200	In Office	51600	400
4/24/2014	200	In Office	51400	600
4/25/2014	200	At @ YMCA	51200	800
4/28/2014	200	At @ YMCA/In Office	51000	1000