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title: I Can Automate Everything Except the Push-Ups.
date: 2026-11-01
place: Vancouver, BC
author: Sean Bruce-Hayes
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# I Can Automate Everything Except the Push-Ups.

I bought [The Pushup Blueprint](https://stan.store/dohardthings365/p/get-my-pushup-blueprint-now) from Rich Hernandez, the man behind Do Hard Things 365. This is a guy who’s done [3,000 push-ups in one session](https://www.tomrowlandpodcast.com/episodes/974-rich-hernandez).

My arms hurt just reading that sentence. Which is ironic, because I didn’t read the PDF.

Instead, I had an app built around his methodology so it could walk me through it. My solution to reading the instructions was commissioning software.

Timers, instructions, somewhere to track the work. The brief somehow became 4,800 words. A lot of effort to avoid turning a page.

I even thought I could sell it back to him. But I’m already not doing the push-ups because I’m working too much. I don’t need another job.

I need to use the thing I built.

An alarm app called Wayk has actually helped with this in another part of my life. It gets me up consistently at 4:30. Late night working? The alarm doesn’t care. I still have to get up and do the task before it shuts up.

And it’s not just exercises. There’s dancing, finding random objects, doing the dishes, going outside and proving you’ve done it. It makes you get out of bed rather than negotiate another nine minutes with yourself.

I’ve been using squats. Might try dancing next, provided closing the blinds counts as the first task.

So maybe that’s what my training app needs. Not more features. Something that gets me to actually stop working and do the workout.

Enter Leeroy, who can remind me that opening the app is not a repetition.

Then I started thinking about a financial penalty. If I’m choosing work because work pays, perhaps skipping the push-ups should cost me something.

I saw a creator using a penalty that sent money to North Korea. Not for me. I’m trying to build my arms, not cause an international incident.

A political party I don’t support, though? That could get me on the floor pretty quickly.

I have employee cards with spending limits, so I’m thinking about a tightly controlled experiment. Nothing switched on yet. I’d need to make sure a technical glitch couldn’t fine me while I was halfway through a set.

For now, I’ve got the app, a reminder and an AI ready to hassle me.

The push-ups are still my department.