Why GCSA?

I found that picture “The 50 push-ups in a month challenge” back in 2017 and decided it was time to try it.

I wanted a calendar reminder of how many push-ups I need to do every day. As a developer, I couldn’t afford to spend 10 minutes putting the events manually. So I spent 3 hours getting the official API to work to do this for me. Then I thought that this simple task shouldn’t take 3 hours and have spent the next couple of days implementing the initial version of the gcsa. Several years later, I’m happy that people find this project useful.

If you’d like to try this yourself, here’s the code you need:

from gcsa.google_calendar import GoogleCalendar
from gcsa.event import Event
from beautiful_date import D, drange, days, MO

gc = GoogleCalendar()

PUSH_UPS_COUNT = [
    5, 5, 0, 5, 10, 0, 10,
    0, 12, 12, 0, 15, 15, 0,
    20, 24, 0, 25, 30, 0, 32,
    35, 35, 0, 38, 40, 0, 42,
    45, 50
]

# starting next Monday (of course)
# +1 days for the case that today is Monday
start = D.today()[9:00] + 1 * days + MO
end = start + len(PUSH_UPS_COUNT) * days

for day, push_ups in zip(drange(start, end), PUSH_UPS_COUNT):
    e = Event(
        f'{push_ups} Push-Ups' if push_ups else 'Rest',
        start=day,
        minutes_before_popup_reminder=5
    )
    gc.add_event(e)

Needless to say, I can’t do 50 push-ups.

Let me know in Discord if you’ve tried it.