has anyone kept that pushup program that helps you work up to 100 pushups:
i hadn’t done it for a while until tonight, i mixed it in with my work out, using week 4 and 5 work out and instead of resting i did a situp work out and some other stuff before that.
i forgot how good it was. so who’s made it to 100 yet?
“satisfaction loses,and humility gains”
Is this 100 at one time, 100 in a certain amount of time (100 in less than 2 minutes lets say) or 100 in a single workout? I do about 500 per workout (I do them in 10 sets of 50). So I could probably hit 100 if I wanted to.
PHILBERT
What’s the point of it? If you can do 100 of an exercise you aren’t working your muscles much. Who ever heard of endurance training for your chest…oh well…just sounds like a big waste of time to me…other than if you get an ego boost out of being able to do that many pushups…
It’s 100 at a time (in one set).
ElPietro, IMO the benefits of the program are not so much that you can do 100 pushups total (although that does mean you have pretty good endurance), but the variety of pushups positions and the inclusion of partials (from the bottom to half way up) in the workout. The partials, especially in diamond pushups form, seem to increase one’s bench (at least it did for mine).
Iron
Actually
The ability to easily do 100 pushups is good, but the ability to do 100 pushups as fast as you can is better as this build explosive power and over all speed, something difficult to do with the “Go heavy or go home” mentality.
Remember guys Kung Fu needs SPEED and doing 100 pushups as fast as you can builds that.
Now try benching a good sized wieght, and THEN doing as many push ups as you can as fast as you can, that works good to, and you get good strenght development as well. It all adds up to massive explosive power.
Variety is the key, do as many different types of the same related exercise as you can. Do your pushups wide, narrow, in circles and as triangles wear a weighted vest or balance barbell wieghts on your back, then switch to benching, go light, go heavy, mix and match, pyramid, drop set super set or any other variation you can come up with that works that muscle group from as many varietys as possible. This is the “Secret” to explosive gains in size, speed, strength and over all power.
RD
Those that are sucessful are also the biggest failures. the difference between them and the rest of the failures is this, they keep getting up over and over again, until they succeed. “The more they try, the more they fail, BUT, the more they try & fail, the more opertunity they have to succeed, and succeed they do!!”
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week 6!
Im on week 6.
I can already do 100 pushups, but with this training method I have noticed some gains in speed etc.
strike!
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When it says every other day does it mean every two days?
and whats your xiphoid?
I’m glad you guys are having success with this program.
xiphoid process = the place where your ribs meet in the center.
every other day means every other day.
Iron
I had to back-off this regime quite quickly because it was interfering with my sensitivity.
Classmates noticed I was brute-forcing when I shouldn’t have been.
A balanced appproach to development is better than a one-dimensional approach. You all know that, of course - I just have to keep reminding myself!
The powers of Kung Fu never fail!
– Hong Kong Phooey
David,
How many weeks did you do before losing sensativity.
I havent noticed anything of the sort.
Ironfist,
Is it true that the forearm muscles are more ‘dense’ then other muscles?
I am not as studied on these subjects:
more specifically: what kinds of fibers are in the forearms/shoulders, etc - as far as, what exactly is this particular type of workout/schedule doing? (partial, full, partial, full, break, partial, full, partial, full, break, fail, break, partial, full, long break… etc etc etc)
thanks.
strike!
are you sure you just weren’t having an off day (or a couple off days) or something?
… happens to the best of us.
or the worst of us in my case.
where’s my beer?
Is it true that the forearm muscles are more ‘dense’ then other muscles?
yen_hoi, I have no idea. I will look into this. I know Bruce Lee believed this was the case, but I haven’t seen any research one way or the other.
I’ll try to let you know what I find soon,
Iron