100 Pushups Trainer: PushApe

One hundred push-ups. One unbroken set. Almost nobody can do it cold, and it is not about trying harder. It is the right sets, in the right order, for a few months. Pushape gets you there with Kito: an ape who does every rep with you and grows because you did the work. His size is your score. Start as a macaque. Earn a silverback. COUNTS YOUR REPS BY ITSELF Phone flat on the floor, your face over it. The Face ID camera measures the distance to your face 60 times a second and counts you on the way up, calibrating itself to your own depth after two slow reps. Nothing is recorded and nothing leaves your phone. A PROGRAM THAT LISTENS Three sessions a week: volume, pyramid, heavy. Every sixth session is a max test. Hit your reps and the next block leans heavier. Come up short twice and it backs off so you can recover into it. Tell it a session felt easy or brutal, and it adjusts. GROWTH IS…