I can’t break 50 and it’s ****ing me off. I can do 50, wait 45-60 seconds and do 50 more but can’t seem to get past that, anyone have any ideas on how to get to 100? I’d like to be able to just pop off 100 before my workouts everyday.
Red:
I am just curious is there any specific martial benefits in doing hundred reps of push ups? I dont know where your weak links are and dont know the value of your push up form. However, you can try doing 10 sets of 10 reps resting 1.30 sec between sets for three weeks then decrease the rest time, decrease sets, and increase reps until it becomes like one set. I hope this helps. Good luck. Your success is our success.
Sincerely,
Bao
depends on how you want to define “martial”. Taking capoeira I need to work on my upper body strength and endurance. I can lift a lot of weight but holding it up there for long periods and moving it around with just my shoulders, achest and arms gets tiring.
Maybe doing upside-down push-ups against a wall (inverted push-ups?) would be more beneficial for that type of training.
Try starting at 40 today.
Tomorrow do 41, the next day 42, so on and so forth. If you miss a day, you must compensate the following day.
Example - you miss day 65. Next day you need to do a set of 65, and later on in the day do your set of 66 also.
MK is right with the inverted push ups too, and if you have anything to do them with, after you finish your initial set of push ups, do an equal set of reverse push ups.
ok, do the inverted pushups now, and went from about 2 to about 15 in a month, and they have certainly helped!
I’m basically just working to give my upper body the endurance to stay up and support it all in some awkward positions. Your moving all the time but if you don’t have the endurance, and I don’t, it’s hard to keep going.
Maybe he just wants to be able to do 100 pushups as a personal goal.
Originally posted by rubthebuddha
100 pushup program
^ w00t! Awesome program.
I started that program last night, if I can remember to keep up with it I’ll keep you guys up to date.
i’m gonna work on this as well..its all about conditioning..I read somewhere that Master Jhoon Ree can still do 100 pushups in a minute or was it two? at the age of 70…
Pushups are like squats… if you only go down half way they don’t count 
But that program calls for doing some “partials,” which are all the way down to half way up. Those are different, so they’re all good. Besides, the bottom half is the hardest, anyway
Good luck on that program. I know people that have had good results on it.
we’ll see, I started yesterday and it’s easy so far, I may skip a week or two and go straight to something more challenging since I’ve been doing some pretty intense pushups as it is.
I got that link from IF on a thread a couple years ago. Program works great.
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^ Yup. I remember yenhoi PM’ing me and saying he had awesome results.
I give it two IronFist thumbs up.
can’t open budhhs programme, but Psyhcologically, I reccommed increasing in intervals of 10 to 20. don’t even look at 50, go 40, 60, 75 etc…
Physologically, I think spine alignement also helps alot too. To do this I put knuckles down on a seat and drop like prepping to v - hold, taking it in your upper back, dropping deep beyond your traps, butt off seat, then as I come back to full weight, I pause and stretch up hunching my shoulders at the top, then comming loose.. Alternatively, you can lay with your heels ( just off your archilles tendon) on the ground, tuck your navel into your spine, stretch slowly long as poss, arms high but remaining parrellel to the ground and release down into your abs relaxing the rest of your body as you go..
Are you talking about push ups or dips? You do know what a push up is, right?
can’t accept I’m adept at anything at all ha :rolleyes: .shouldn’t 've expected rational contribution when I saw your name… always the optimist:rolleyes:
BL
It really does sound like you are talking about dips…
NP…
I’m really not, and it figures that alot of the heavier carbing and weight focused boys here would not understand how I achieve it. We gear our training and objectives differently. I don’t think it’s something you usually get instructions for ( even if you do see the pupose). and yes, I find carb loading matters for the fact of excess glycogyen and such acids inhibitting higher vol. When I eat that piece of particulary dry complex carb, because of the wheat or or whatever density for gram that goes into making flour etc, I know in my next load of pushups I’m going to work just a little harder. I think most leafy veg are usually a good choice even in higher amounts, because they’re more soluable. Unless I acccumulate what the chinese call " stomache or bowel wetness " or something, or unless I need to rebalance or stabilise my nervous system, no more than a few gms of dry carbs are usually neccessary. Fine tuned event.