a few years ago I set a goal for myself to do 1000 pushups in one day. I set out to be able to do 20 sets of 50 in about 12 hours. I got up to about 700 with sets of 35, but then I strained my rotator cuff... gg
haven't done a pushup since. maybe I'll try this with you. My advice to you is to stay REALLY loose. If you spend 5 minutes doing your pushups spend 5 minutes stretching before (gently, don't over stretch) and a bit afterwards. I stretched a ton when I was going for 1k, but not often enough. I couldn't even play starcraft my shoulder was so fucked for about 2 weeks. This program looks nicely paced so you should be fine though.
On May 31 2015 03:02 GodOfWarAReS wrote: well.. being able to make 100 push ups wont make you alot stronger or have more stamina, if youre already able to make more than 30. your body will just adept to the motion, making it easier for you to do a push up. at the end you will be amazing at push ups, but thats basically it..^^ look at really good calesthenic guys.. they can do really crazy stuff but still only can make like 80 push ups at a time, because they just dont do them as often. of course they could get up to 300 at a time in like 2 months by just doing lots and lots of push ups, but they know it would be just a waste of time.
anyways better than doing nothing! =P so have fun
Proper pushups are by no means meaningless or anything of the sort. Proper technique is key, though, otherwise you're not really working with the intended muscles.
Good luck with this, micronesia! Keep us updated
I heard from someone that the position of your hands on the ground were influencing which muscles you work out as well. He said putting your hands closer together would be much heavier on your shoulders, while widening the gap would be heavy on the breast muscle (pectoralis major in wiki). It seems pretty believable, but I haven't actually tried that out; could someone confirm/deny this?
On May 31 2015 03:02 GodOfWarAReS wrote: well.. being able to make 100 push ups wont make you alot stronger or have more stamina, if youre already able to make more than 30. your body will just adept to the motion, making it easier for you to do a push up. at the end you will be amazing at push ups, but thats basically it..^^ look at really good calesthenic guys.. they can do really crazy stuff but still only can make like 80 push ups at a time, because they just dont do them as often. of course they could get up to 300 at a time in like 2 months by just doing lots and lots of push ups, but they know it would be just a waste of time.
anyways better than doing nothing! =P so have fun
Proper pushups are by no means meaningless or anything of the sort. Proper technique is key, though, otherwise you're not really working with the intended muscles.
Good luck with this, micronesia! Keep us updated
I heard from someone that the position of your hands on the ground were influencing which muscles you work out as well. He said putting your hands closer together would be much heavier on your shoulders, while widening the gap would be heavy on the breast muscle (pectoralis major in wiki). It seems pretty believable, but I haven't actually tried that out; could someone confirm/deny this?
You could find it out just by doing both and feeling?
For reference, I'm doing push ups with hands aligned such that my thumbs are below my arm pits, and going down until my elbow is at about a 90 degree angle.
On May 31 2015 03:02 GodOfWarAReS wrote: well.. being able to make 100 push ups wont make you alot stronger or have more stamina, if youre already able to make more than 30. your body will just adept to the motion, making it easier for you to do a push up. at the end you will be amazing at push ups, but thats basically it..^^ look at really good calesthenic guys.. they can do really crazy stuff but still only can make like 80 push ups at a time, because they just dont do them as often. of course they could get up to 300 at a time in like 2 months by just doing lots and lots of push ups, but they know it would be just a waste of time.
anyways better than doing nothing! =P so have fun
Proper pushups are by no means meaningless or anything of the sort. Proper technique is key, though, otherwise you're not really working with the intended muscles.
Good luck with this, micronesia! Keep us updated
I heard from someone that the position of your hands on the ground were influencing which muscles you work out as well. He said putting your hands closer together would be much heavier on your shoulders, while widening the gap would be heavy on the breast muscle (pectoralis major in wiki). It seems pretty believable, but I haven't actually tried that out; could someone confirm/deny this?
From my experience, putting your hands farther apart is heavier on the breast muscle. Putting your hands close (so that the thumbs touch eachother) feels heavy on the triceps (unsure about shoulder)
On May 31 2015 03:02 GodOfWarAReS wrote: well.. being able to make 100 push ups wont make you alot stronger or have more stamina, if youre already able to make more than 30. your body will just adept to the motion, making it easier for you to do a push up. at the end you will be amazing at push ups, but thats basically it..^^ look at really good calesthenic guys.. they can do really crazy stuff but still only can make like 80 push ups at a time, because they just dont do them as often. of course they could get up to 300 at a time in like 2 months by just doing lots and lots of push ups, but they know it would be just a waste of time.
anyways better than doing nothing! =P so have fun
Proper pushups are by no means meaningless or anything of the sort. Proper technique is key, though, otherwise you're not really working with the intended muscles.
Good luck with this, micronesia! Keep us updated
I heard from someone that the position of your hands on the ground were influencing which muscles you work out as well. He said putting your hands closer together would be much heavier on your shoulders, while widening the gap would be heavy on the breast muscle (pectoralis major in wiki). It seems pretty believable, but I haven't actually tried that out; could someone confirm/deny this?
It's true that the positioning of your hands determines which muscles work the most in pushups. Close together puts the most strain on the triceps, whereas farther apart strains chest/shoulders (depending on where your hands are relative to your shoulders, broadly speaking). It's something better
I tried this program around five years ago, and got to 55 consecutive push ups and then gave up, because I just couldn't keep up with the program any more.
Being able to do 100 push ups is kind of meh, doesn't really help you that much, except being good at push ups.
On May 31 2015 03:02 GodOfWarAReS wrote: well.. being able to make 100 push ups wont make you alot stronger or have more stamina, if youre already able to make more than 30. your body will just adept to the motion, making it easier for you to do a push up. at the end you will be amazing at push ups, but thats basically it..^^ look at really good calesthenic guys.. they can do really crazy stuff but still only can make like 80 push ups at a time, because they just dont do them as often. of course they could get up to 300 at a time in like 2 months by just doing lots and lots of push ups, but they know it would be just a waste of time.
anyways better than doing nothing! =P so have fun
Proper pushups are by no means meaningless or anything of the sort. Proper technique is key, though, otherwise you're not really working with the intended muscles.
Good luck with this, micronesia! Keep us updated
His point is that at a certain point, you're not actually getting stronger. You're just getting better at doing pushups.
Here's an old thread which had a lot of interest. You can check my progress between pages 10-12. I basically got to week six and gave up. I think the website has since modified the program a little bit to make it easier.
I recently read Convict Conditioning which had a section on push ups. Rather than just trying to do more push ups of the same difficulty level, the book emphasises increasing the difficulty of the push ups (and other bodyweight exercises in the book) once you are capable of doing a few medium length sets of your current level.
This means you'll be focusing on building strength rather than just endurance. Rather than aiming at 100 push ups, the goal of the push up series of exercises in the book is to be able to do 1-arm push ups. The book presents a nice progression of 10 steps from really easy exercises, through normal push ups and up until the final 1-arm push ups. Being able to do 1-arm push ups is a very distant goal for someone like me but it's nice to have a long term goal I guess, and the there's plenty of other more attainable short term goals in the form of the other 9 steps.
Tbh I haven't really made any progress getting started recently and have a variety of excuses, gonna try and start again properly tomorrow.
those people who do those super fast push ups are those the way to go when doing massive amounts of push ups (while mainting good form i guess?) or those who go slowly down and then slowly back up because the latter seems much harder or is there just a good standard time for doing a push up (something like 2 seconds per up and down, idk im making up a number)
Call me when you can do 100 military push-ups. Its not like they are very different, its just that your instructor goes "doesn't count - doesn't count - doesn't count - okay that one was fine - doesn't count - doesn't count"
On May 31 2015 20:47 Tufas wrote: Call me when you can do 100 military push-ups. Its not like they are very different, its just that your instructor goes "doesn't count - doesn't count - doesn't count - okay that one was fine - doesn't count - doesn't count"
Just out of curiosity, I've been doing pushups and I've also been doing bench presses. When I think about it they seem like the exact same exercise except inverted, and maybe with pushups you have a little bit of stress on the body and legs to keep everything straight. So my question is are they basically the same? Will they train the same muscles? If not I might choose to focus on one more than the other.