Push-ups

[Hot Mess]

I searched and didn't come up with anything. I've been doing an expansion of a push-up program I read about once. It was a 10 days program. You pick a number of push-ups, say 500. One day you do them all at once in the least amount of sets as possible. Then the next day you just do one set max reps throughout the day until you get to 500. Stop for three days and then your PU's magically improve.

Well then thing is I've been doing this everyday for a over a month now and I'm bored. On my max one rep I knock out 75, but I'm sure I could go higher if I did the stop and go PT test thing. And I can do the 500 PU in 50 PU sets in under 30min.

So who's got another PU program? I used to go with the 3:00 min, 1:30 min, and then 45 sec program, which works great for PT tests. But I'm not worried about that. So what say you SOCNET?

[Gryfen-FL]

Where did that 'crazy russian' pushup program get to?

....I know it was around here somewhere.....

Ah, the Evil Russian (http://www.socnet.com/showpost.php?p=1243104&postcount=21)

[northwesttech]

RS, I think the program you've been doing is similar to the Stew Smith program. He says if you can do 50-75 pushups, you do 200 a day in the method you describe. If you can do 75 or more to do 300 a day.

He then lays out a 3 day a week program for maintaining and increasing pushups. One day is Pyramid workouts (pushups, pullups, abs, dips), the 2nd day (after a day of rest for those muscle groups) is a Super Set workouts. The third day is a max effort where you go to failure and then even do pushups from your knees until you can no longer do even those.
I'd link the site but I think it may be part of the banned links.

I'm just in the middle of the pushup-push program and will be starting the maintanence program soon. So I can't give any personal testimony yet.

He does recommend not doing the 200-300 everyday program more than once every 6 months due to the heavy use of the same muscles.

[Pharoe]

I guess it all depends on your goal. Both methods you mentioned seem to be good programs but rest is crucial. I normally practice doing slow controlled push ups for small number reps. Parallel bar dips help me out a lot as well. But again, all on your goal

[UGAfan]

I've always been fond of Tabatas.

Not that I'm an authority on this or anything.

[guns]

Rob Shaul with Military Athlete has talked about "density training". You start out at say, 20 rounds of 5 push-ups every 30 seconds. So if it takes you 5 seconds to do 5 push-ups, you get 25 seconds rest before you do your next 5. If 5 is too easy, you start at 10, 15, whatever. The goal is to get to where you can do 20 rounds of 20 on the 30 second mark. He also does this with pull-ups. I tried to find the Q&A about this specific issue on his site, but had no luck. So some of the specifics may be a bit off, but the basic concept remains the same.

[Mortalitus]

I used to have an OIC that used a deck of cards to do PU's the number of the card was the number of reps, face cards worth more, jacks 15, queens 20, kings 25, Aces 30. And the workout lasted for an hour practically non stop except to draw another card between sets and to shuffle the deck.

The first card flipped would be a wide stance PU (arms way out) set, the 2nd a standard set, the 3rd set would be with your hands turned inwards to work the triceps, and the 4th card was dive bombers.

Then back to wide stance.
he would go through the deck until all cards were gone then shuffle and keep going until the timer went off. Was brutal but effective. The sets seemed to fly by and worked your whole arm/chest/shoulders.

[CAP MARINE]

ARMSTRONG PULLUP PROGRAM

[CAP MARINE]

did a short 4set workout yesterday-pushes included-25/25;30/30;40/40;50/50--would do a set,lets say 25,rest for a few seconds do another set of 25
i did other exercises too.have a bad R elbow now,will take a few months to completely heal.did heavy partial weights today,about 100-150# below what i usually do.

[Ranger5280]

I decided to start the evil russian push-up program a little over a week ago. For my test set I made sure that my body was perfectly straight. My face was looking forward and I went down until my chest was only an inch or two off the ground. On the push up I made sure I fully extended my arms. I only allowed a few brief rests while keeping my back sraight...no arching or sagging. I was only able to knock out 40 before, IMO, my form became mutated.

During the first week I think I only missed a few of my time hacks. I was sore but could completed the program each day.

Still sore I re-tested on day 8 and could do 45 strict push-ups.

Today is day 9 and at 55% of my test I am doing 25 push-ups at today's required 20 minute interval. I started at 8am and usually go until about 11pm. So, I've done about 525 pushups so far and I'm not smoked yet but it's the toughest day in the program.

I have to say that I really like this format and I'm interested to see how I test at the end of it.

[poison]

Gah, I hate pushups. Dips make you bigger and stronger, in less time. Every military loves em, though.

[Silverbullet]

Dips make you bigger and stronger, in less time

Depends on how you do them. Unweighted dips don't beat weighted pushups. It's all a matter of application.

I never really understood this sentiment since fitness/size/strength should be the result of a toolbox.

Push ups are good for shoulder health as well.

[Ranger5280]

I like pushups because I can do them anywhere. Dips are a little harder to bust out without a platform that allows for your body to hang free (and I get pretty creative with dip locations).

Concur with Silverbullet on pushups being good for shoulder health.

[SOTB]

I think pushups are the heat. I do dips, but find that pushups are a hard exercise to beat -- simple, flexible in where and when they can be done, and effective.

I've tried to do variations of them to keep things changing; X amount in a specifc time period, ladders, types, even mass amounts (I've done the thousand pushups in one exercise thing).

Recently I did THIS EXERCISE (http://socnet.com/showpost.php?p=1058134380&postcount=1572), which I thought would be easy and maybe boring. It wasn't. I think the last 100 sucked as much as the first, actually....

[The Fat Guy]

I did a push up just yesterday.....;)

[CPTAUSRET]

I did a push up just yesterday.....;)

A pic would be proof!:smile: