Press up query

Awful Scut Mk2

Currently doing the hundred push-ups challenge (http://hundredpushups.com/index.html), which I find is great for me as it is something I can do whenever I've a free moment and I've never really been into gyms.

Question I have is this - does it matter if I do the 100 over the course of the day as opposed to all in one go. It would seem to me not, but just curious.

Also, any views on the effectiveness of this exercise.

Many thanks.

brianthebard

Do you mean for the final test or for general training?

effectiveness-press ups are great, just keep using progressions to make them harder. Feet on a chair, one handed, hands close together, etc.

Awful Scut Mk2

Well tbh, I'm already doing 100 per day, just spacing them out during the day. 40 before I go to work, then maybe 20 more during a quiet moment at work and 40 more in the evening.

I'm only doing them for general toning/exercise purposes.

celestial

Push-ups are a really fantastic exercise and you lift around 66% of your bodyweight during one - so great for overall upper body strength and building muscle. However, don't forget to train other areas - there is more to your bod than arms and chest!

madmik

of course it matters

theres a huge differnce in doing 100 consecutive pushups and doing

five sets of twenty at various times during the day

various sets at various times is waaaay easier than 100 nonstop in say 2-3 minutes

if u dont believe me try doing 100 consecutive tomo and tell us how far u got

Awful Scut Mk2

Well, I know it's easier - that's why I'm doing it. I mean in terms of the effect on the body, is there a difference there?

rccaulfield

Huge difference- ur basically emptying your muscles of glycogen stores and giving ur body a chance to fill up again the way ur doing it! U need to push the muscles hard nearly till exhaustion- this rips ur muscles and as the body repairs them it grows them for nxt time.........simply put! P.s. mix it up a bit!

staf9

have you actually read the web page for the hundred push up challenge. you should be doing it on a week by week basis over 6 weeks and they details out the amount you shoudl do. all it actually will take is 10 minutes of your time in the evening and 3-4 times a week.

rubadub

The site says

If you're serious about increasing your strength, follow this six week training program and you'll soon be on your way to completing 100 consecutive push ups!

100 per day is easy. I have done several hundred in a day, used to do 50 before my shower every day.

I never bother now, just do different harder variations, dunno what it is about bodywieght exercises, but since it is a fixed wieght people go for reps. Nobody would make a website of aiming for 100 bicep curl reps with a low wieght in 6 weeks.

There are loads of threads about getting to 100 pushups here
www.bodyweightculture.com

I am currently trying to come up with an easy way of adding more restistance to my pushups.

aye

rubadub wrote: »

I am currently trying to come up with an easy way of adding more restistance to my pushups.

Use a Back Pack filled with books.

rubadub

aye wrote: »

Use a Back Pack filled with books.

I have done that, it is OK but I was looking for more resistance, I have put plates in a bag but you end up focusing on balancing them. I have pushup stands, some guys put resistance bands on them and have the band across their backs.

I was thinking of some sort of stand, and I could have a loaded hip belt on my back with the weight hanging underneath. Possibly even some sort of harness & double pulley system. I have seen this for doing belt squats.

Imagine a wide plank of wood on the ground, now you have a pulley fixed to it in the middle. Now you have rope with weights on the end, this passes over a chinup bar, goes down and onto the pulley on the wood. Now you have a harness on your body attached to this rope. So the weight is pulling you towards the ground. The harness could just be a dip belt on your back.

You lay the wood on the ground and press on the ends with your hand, this keeps the pulley underneath.

Sounds complicated but I might give it ago, I think I have all the stuff I need already. Or make a mini model incase I am missing something obviously wrong, which is often the case!

You could do what this nutcase does!



If I was doing a 100pushup routine it would be this.
http://www.ringtraining.com/articles/workouts/100-pushups-workout.html

Awful Scut Mk2

Thanks for the info chaps, I knew it was too good to be true. Btw, I did build up to it over the few weeks. Hopefully I'll soon be at the stage you're at rubadub, as 100 consecutives knock the sh*t out of me at the moment.