One Hundred Pushups - Page 4

On August 12 2008 06:58 Wurzelbrumpft wrote:
since im only active in german training forums and sites, it wont do you any good if i put a link here, but as i wrote before you shouldnt be fixated on the number of reps. there are a million ways of performing a repetition, from taking a second to 10seconds positive phase to 10seconds negative phase. Its about the time under tension..

just think about it logically it cant be the time between sets. If you take a weight do a set, then immediateley do another one, it wouldnt have mattered, if you waited after the first set or not cause the weight wasn´t high enough any way.

Of course the time between sets in a strenth routine and a hypertrophy routine is is different.
But thats only because a set in a strength routine is much more demanding of your muscles and your central nervous system and you will be forced to pause for a longer time anyway..

On August 12 2008 05:32 Orome wrote:
What kind of workout routine exactly are you looking for naventus?

On August 12 2008 06:06 travis wrote:
I will do that.

What do you want? something for building muscle mass? something for functional strength? do you want aerobic conditioning to be included?



Do you want something that tells you exactly what to do, with exact progressions, or something with a little more freedom of choice?

On August 12 2008 08:08 suxN wrote:
travis if youre hyped about doing the workout thingie, id appreciate if it was to build explosiveness and endurance Not that interested about maximum strenght or big muscles.

On August 12 2008 08:01 naventus wrote:
Something holistic would be good - in the sense that I'm interested in taking up climbing, and I would like to be fit for that, but I don't care about, say, how much I could bench.

On August 12 2008 08:25 travis wrote:


I will reply here about building explosiveness and endurance.

To build explosiveness, do plyometric versions of your current excersizes, and explosive versions.

Plyometrics means that you use the elasticity of your muscles to train them to contract in a specific way - eh I can't explain it very well you can look it up if you want.

Basically, examples of plyometric excersizes are clapping pushups, squat jumps, depth jumps. I actually know quite a few so if you are interested I can PM you some good stuff, I am just too lazy to get into it right now.


Explosive excersizes just require you to muster up everything you've got as quick as you can. Olympic lifts are explosive in nature. You can also make difficult excersizes like pullups or dips or squats explosive by giving everything you can at once. An example of this would be a pullup where you try to pull yourself up and above the bar(using momentum), or dips where from the bottom you try to push yourself up and explode to where your hands have to let go of whatever equipment you are using.



To build endurance - just constantly seek to increase the duration/amount of work you are doing in your workouts. Just be careful to vary things, or you increase your chance of injury.

On August 12 2008 09:33 suxN wrote:


I think im in love with you and your aces, thanks!

But there is still something that isnt quite clear for me, should i [b]do 5-20 explosive repeats, and then ~50 repeats with lighter weights for endurance[b], then repeat. Or should i just do lots of explosive repeats with light weights?

And feel free to PM all the good stuff when you got time, im mainly playing stuff like soccer, floorball(kinda like icehockey with shoes), basketball, tennis.. so legs and torso need some workout

On August 12 2008 09:57 xhuwin wrote:
Haha I started this a while back.. I'm on week 5 day 3 right now.

On August 12 2008 04:11 Frits wrote:
Initial test: 100 without problems, gg test.

I always do 80 before I go to sleep.