I usually do 5x5 but going through a very busy period with work which requires me to work long hours plus the travel back from the office.

A buddy of mine suggested doing 100 pushups throughout every other day. The days I'm not I'm doing pull ups for back and bis. Bar bell squats on the weekends.

Is doing 100 pushups sufficient to maintain and even grow my chest during this time? I do slow concentrated push ups. Definitely feel a burn each set.

I'm doing 100 push ups with a rest day after 2 days of the workout. I was wondering if there's a faster way getting gains from push ups?

I recently started doing pushups and have worked my way up to around 200-300 pushups a day after around 2 weeks (in sets) I was wondering if this is actually beneficial or if I should be doing something else with the pushups since the only thing that I can see that has improved is my ability to do more pushups and nothing with my body that I can see.

I know that doing sets until failure may promote muscle growth. I could be wrong. Yesterday, I tried doing push ups until failure and I think I couldn't. Im going to retry today. However, do you ever get used to that feeling. If not how do you make sure to go to failure? Any tips?

Hello,

What are some tips to maximize muscle growth when doing push ups.

I'm doing the following.

100 push ups I usually break them up into sets and I try to do as much as I can until failure.

For every 2 days of working out. I do a rest day to rest my muscles and build muscle.

Lately, I've been doing warmup exercises to also help with preparing for warm-ups.

Is there anything else that I can do to maximize growth when doing push ups?

Greetings, has anyone of you experienced soreness in biceps soon after doing a rep? I've been reading that push-ups are actually supposed to target chest and triceps - but I do feel some effect on my biceps as well: my arms feel a little bulkier after some months of push-ups and what worries me the most, is that the main source of strain while exercising comes from them.

I've read on the internet that biceps actually play a role into stabilizing the body while keeping a proper push-up position - you know, when you press your hands on the floor. So, I suspect my biceps are so weak that they start being sore before anything else; also, I might be overall weak, so I end up feeling fatigue quite early. Could this be the cause of my strain? Maybe training my biceps on the days I'm not doing any push-up might be a good idea?

I currently can perform about 5x10 push-ups, I'm doing them really slow and I try keeping a good form.

Hello all, I am a YouTuber who recently set a challenge for myself to do a push up for every new subscriber I get for the entirety of 2024. Here’s the thing though, I can barely do 25 without needing an extended break.

I am unable to back out of the challenge as I’ve announced that if I fail, my friend will delete my channel. So yeah, I’m stuck doing it.

My question: does anyone have any general advice for longevity when doing potentially 1000+ push ups? Also, general tips for push ups? Thanks y’all.

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as the title says im sore as shit and can barely do the pushups, what do i do

Hello,

I am curious why I should do warm ups before push ups. Is it beneficial and can it improve gains? Also, if it is beneficial, what warm-ups do you recommend?

Literally just started, I'm reasonably out of shape so splitting to 4 lots of 25. Love any tips to help me get this done 💪

Hello,

I'm trying to do push ups. And I was curious if you guys have any tips for people who want maximum gains when doing a push up?

Things that are a struggle for me is pushing to failure, staying consistent, forgetting to breathe and sometimes I don't feel anything when engaging my core.

I’ve been doing 100 push ups everyday since July 21. After a few weeks I began to mix it up and do 10 push ups, 10 squats, and 10 sit-ups. Or I’ll do 15 push ups then 5 pull ups. I was not in good shape when I started but now I have real definition in my chest, back, shoulders, arms, etc. I honestly can’t believe the change. I’m 46 years old and the only draw back I’ve had was sore wrists or elbows, but nothing that has held me back. In any case, last night my streak ended cause I did a strength work out instead. New streak begins today.

So a month or two ago I made a post on my progress with doing 100 pushups a day. When I wrote the post I could do around 90 pushups in 5 minutes. Now after a month I've managed to do around 100 pushups in 4 minutes. Maybe my next goal is to do 100 pushups in 3 minutes but that may take much longer to achieve. The eventual goal is to do 100 pushups in a row unbroken with perfect technique in under 2 minutes. It may take a long time, but I know for sure that if I keep doing pushups I will eventually get there.

When I started this challenge around spring, it was taking me around 20 minutes to do 100 pushups. So I've made so much progress in less than 1 year. I'm a lot busier now since the summer break is over , but despite my lack of free time, I force myself to do the challenge at least once every other day. It doesn't matter how tired I am or how much stuff I have to do. 5 minutes is just a small amount of time in the day. Consistency is key like they say because the gains from each workout no matter how small will add up and make a visible difference over time. It's definitely not easy doing 100 pushups every other day and it is intense but 5 minutes will go by quickly in a day. When you start doing this challenge, it may be "motivation" that's pushing you to do this challenge. But motivation doesn't last forever and eventually wears out. You'll need discipline to keep going forever. Everybody brushes their teeth when they wake up because they know they have to, not because they feel motivated to keep their teeth clean.

Anyway, one day I will post a video here of me doing 100 pushups unbroken with perfect technique and I know I will get there.

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So had a pretty strenuous workout a few days ago, then played softball day before yesterday, which was exhausting, so I ended up taking three or four days between hundies.

This evening I was tired after a busy day, and thinking about dinner, and thought about my damn pushups and forced myself to do them. Ten sets of ten with a 1-minute rest between sets.

The last two sets were a challenge, but damn! I finished them and did my hundy, and now I feel glowing in my arms and shoulders and good about myself.

Fight the lazies, folks! Sometimes those workouts you do despite not wanting to do them at all are the best you do. I feel awesome.

hi, im prepping for the marines and this is my workout schedule. i want to improve my push ups (my max is now 25 should by at least 40 in 4 weeks) and running (main focus). what do u guys think about this schedule?

Upperbody: Lowerbody:

15 emom 10 push ups 15 emom 10 push ups

10 emom 5 pull ups squats 4 sets 5-12 x

bench press 4 sets 5-8x deadlifts 4 sets 5-8 x

bent over row 4 sets 5-8x lunges 4 sets 12-15 x

Lat pull down 4 sets 5-10 leg press 4 sets 8-12 x

dips 4 sets 8-12 x romanian deadlifts 4 sets 8-12x

bicep curls 4 sets 8-15 x calf raises 4 sets 15x

bicep curls cable dropset 1x Ab excersice 4 sets 10-15 x

tricep push down dropset 1x planks 3 sets

monday: (morning) run 5-10km easy pace (Evening) upper body

tuesday:(morning) run 7-12km easy pace (evening) lower body

wednesday: (evening) Crossfit & interval run 10x200 m

thursday: (morning) 3-5 km tempo run (evening) upper body (on my day off i box too in the morning

Friday: (morning) Boxing PT (afternoon) lowerbody and swimming 1200m-2500m

saturday: rest

sunday: long run 12-18km

Per a suggestion from this board, I did my 100 today in 10 sets of 10 with one minute rest between sets.

Fuggin A !

It was a challenge for sure but I've been pushupping for some months now and finished the workout feeling good, heartrate up nicely, everything buzzing. Probably had a couple sets still in me. Half the sets were military style, on my knuckles, right-angle elbows, down to as low as I can. the other half were normal pushups. Still, I feel pretty good.

I have always since I was young a hundred years ago (I'm 64) that you should rest a day after a pushup workout, and I've almost always observed that. That said, I do notice that if I do this every day I get very strong. I tend to do pushups one day then get busy with dumbbells next day, different muscles, then rest a day, then rinse and repeat. Too little?

If I may brag a little, the pushups have been a pretty big part of me losing 50 lbs over the past 18 months. I haven't felt this good in decades, and it's the pushups that keeps me maintained and motivated.

Thanks for reading, if you read. Keep pushin'!

I just started pushups now this year, in my 30s, I started doing pushups after nearly losing my arm due to a murder attempt on me at the beginning of this year, I rehabilitated myself after my arm was slashed with a knife and smashed with rods, my ulnar nerve was almost severed and I could not bend my arm for a solid 2-3 months, I started pushups in April when I recovered. Now it's august & I'm doing 100 in one go, in the decline position.

I am well aware they are not strict full range of motion pushups, but I treat this more as a stamina, endurance type exercise than a proper pause and hold pushup challenge....looking for opinions, because 100 is still 100 and decline pushups are harder.

I call them pump pushups since I'm literally pumping my body like a piston....100 half rep decline position pushups in 30 seconds or so (I didn't time it's a give or take estimate, it may even be less)

I’m just starting this. It seems like the strategy is to not max out your reps in a set. But it feels like I’d make more gains if I max out the reps. So do you max out your reps in a set?

I came across this sub and I was interested in doing this challenge but I don’t understand how this routine actually helps?

To my understanding,fundamentally, muscle is built during recovery and this challenge does not give the proper recovery time due to it being daily… is this challenge more of a discipline thing or a body building thing because I was thinking about adding this on top of my regular weight lifting training.

Is this for people who don’t weight train and solely do this for exercise?

I've been doing 100 pushups a day since the May and I have seen massive gains in my triceps and chest that I even got accused of taking steroids.

My routine in the beginning was to do 10 sets. In the beginning it was really hard to do all 10 sets without taking progressively longer breaks each time, that it would take me 20 minutes in total to get 100 pushups down. Eventually after a month, I was able to do 100 pushups in 10 minutes. Now, I've started the 100 pushups in 5 minutes challenge, and I'm not there yet but close since I've been able to do 90 pushups. It's insane how I only started doing 20 knee pushups every other day in april since I was so weak. But now I can pump out close to a 100 pushups in 5 minutes every single day. All in about 3 months.

Here are some concerns I will address if you plan on doing the program

Don't you need to take rest days

I don't ever feel sore the next day. My arms may feel 10% tired in the morning, but not the same kind of pain when being sore. If you have a certain base level of strength, you shouldn't be extremely sore and your body should eventually adapt. I think the problem with some people doing this challenge is that they attempt it without having any foundation. Like if you can't even do 5 real pushups in a row, I suggest you working on getting 10 pushups in a row before trying to do 100 pushups. Like I said, I was first only able to do 20 knee pushups and only started the 100 pushups a day challenge when I did 30 pushups in a row. Ironically, when I took a rest day I felt that I got weaker, as if my body was so used to doing pushups everyday and wanted it.

Will doing lots of pushups wear out your joints

Not necessarily. If you have poor technique, that will wear out your joints. Also, if you have poor muscle imbalance like weak rotator cuff muscles, I think you may wear out your joints. But that has to do with the fact that your muscles are imbalanced and not necessarily because you are doing a lot of pushups. If you plan on doing 100 pushups in the long term I recommend doing 50 pullups as well. I've been doing this challenge for 3 months and I don't feel any joint point or had any injury. Ironically, I've only gotten injured from attempting other things like lifting weights.

If you want to get big, should you lift weights instead of doing a lot of pushups

Most people are not trying to be mr olympia and doing pushups is more than enough to get a good physique. To make the program more challenging, you can try to do more reps in a shorter amount of time, have shorter breaks, have more reps in a set, harder variation. The people doing calisthenics in the park and prison are proof that you don't need to lift weights to be ripped.

How should you do your pushups and how should you feel after every workout

I do every pushup with perfect form. I don't do the fake pushups nonsense where I go as low or high as I want. I make sure my chest touches the ground and arm straightens back up for the full range of motion. If you don't do the full range of motion and try to cheat more reps you are only cheating yourself. Every time I do this challenge, by the 5th set out of 10, my whole body is already shaking on the last 3-5 reps but I still manage to complete the full range of motion and I repeat this again for the last 5 sets which shows how hard you have to push yourself if you want gains. This is the most important part of the challenge. If the intensity is not there, you are not getting enough stimulus on the muscle, therefore weaker hypertrophy response.

If you have more questions, comment in the post and I will answer.

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Hi, I started this challenge 3 days ago, I did 100 push-ups, but I couldn't do them the next day. I still feel muscle pain and I don't know when I can do another 100. keep in mind that as a beginner it's probably not healthy to do it every day at the beginning.

As well as views and subscribers as said in title i will do 5 pushups per up vote and 50 per award if yall want to. https://youtube.com/shorts/4Dog7AhI2Es?feature=share4