100 Push-ups Challenge
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Its all upto you, i suppose its cant be a bad thing being able to do 100 pushups. Wish i could.
If you want to go for it then go for it i say
It depends on what your goal is. As you're posting this in the bodybuilding section I'll assume you're aiming to build muscle. In that case I don't think it's a worthwhile thing to pursue as a lift you can perform 100 reps of isn't going to be providing enough resistance for significant hypertrophy to take place. You'd be better off sticky to sets of 8-12 and adding weight to your back
I know this is an old thread, but since I just finished the challenge I figured I would reply. To be honest, I think it is a worthy challenge to try out. It only takes like 5 minutes a day, 3 days a week. When I started, I did the push up exhaust thing just to see how many I could do. I could do 45-50 before I felt like my arms were going to explode. 6 weeks and some 1800 push ups later, I can rep out push ups like a mad man. I now do push ups 4 times a week, usually sticking to the routines found in "Week 4" or "5". After completing the push up challenge, it made me want to do more stuff like this. I threw together an 8 week sit up program that consists of 3 variations of crunches and I'm about to start doing some pull up stuff based basically on the same "x week" concept. Anyways, hope this helps anyone considering to do the challenge.
Funny thing you say things like that. Doesn't seem to be too popular around these parts to do BWE.
My personal goal was to be overall fit, and found that variations of pull-ups and push-ups are the best mediator at achieving that goal. But, I keep getting requests to "lift weights instead", rather than keep up a solid body weight routine.
I believe a good strength to body weight ratio and having LEAN muscle growing, rather than bulking is more to my suit and tastes. I may give this 100 push up challenge a try. I dunno how many I can do, but I'm estimating around the 40 mark before my arms feel like popping. Would be a pretty sweet goal to do 100.
My personal goal was to be overall fit, and found that variations of pull-ups and push-ups are the best mediator at achieving that goal. But, I keep getting requests to "lift weights instead", rather than keep up a solid body weight routine.
I believe a good strength to body weight ratio and having LEAN muscle growing, rather than bulking is more to my suit and tastes. I may give this 100 push up challenge a try. I dunno how many I can do, but I'm estimating around the 40 mark before my arms feel like popping. Would be a pretty sweet goal to do 100.
Yeah, I've been noticing a lot of people here are more into weight training over body weight. TBH, if I wanted to bulk up, I'd def. go back to weight training. That's really what I used to be into and I saw the results. Honestly though, super bulking isn't what I'm after anymore and body weight exercises really make me feel good (especially since I more than doubled the amount of reps I can do in 6 weeks). I figure if I do the same type of workouts with chin ups, and sit ups, I could actually see some good lean muscle results.
There popular with me, and I could careless whether they are popular with someone else or whether they think I should do them: I know best through educating myself.
I train hard and I train heavy with weights. However, their are times I plan BWE's into my weight training program, to recruit the fibers that: the heavy weight does not. Additionally, I personally want some endurance in my muscle.
BWE's became especially effective a few months out of going back to the Police Academy for the second time. And, training in a manner in which I was going to be "tested" was the essential factor. Before going to the academy (and still training heavy), I was able to push out over 100 push-ups: In one go, and well over 300+ sit-ups (among many other exercises as well). The entire driving force was: They weren't expecting this from a 46 year old among many in their prime. I was going to set them on fire. You ought to have seen their faces. LOL.
I owe A LOT to BWE's and band exercises, especially when I first began my goal path to lose tissue. I learned real fast, that while my muscles were more than willing to rock the heck out, my tendons and joints were not so willing, and needed additional recovery time. And BWE's, certain types of exercises (that dont even make the list on many persons training platform), shoulder girdle exercises, and certain band implementations, played a key role in their active recovery. Now, I dont have ANY joint or tendon pain, and I push it HARD......and this is an understatement of the frigggen year.
Sometimes I will put BWE's in-between weight training exercises, that I term as FreeForm and include an "active rest" period.
For example:
Bench Press is 3 sets progressive tier, with 1 minute rest (when the former rest from last workout was 2m). After the first set of the Bench Press, I push out as many push-ups I can during the first 30 seconds of rest, and then rest the remaining 30 seconds, and repeat for 3 sets. Sometimes I add in dips, push-ups from the hand stand position, etc.
Best wishes
Chillen
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What the hell, I'll try to do 100 pushups.
go for it! :angry:
See, anybody can do 100 pushups....if they're doing them wrong. Just Youtube search 100 push-ups and every single one of those people aren't going full ROM. 100 pushups is DAMN HARD if you do the form CORRECTLY.
I take that back. there was a little kid (probably like 8 years old) on there with his sister holding a fist on the ground under his chest, and he was going all the way up and all the way down to her hand. Everybody else is doing this short arm BS.
I take that back. there was a little kid (probably like 8 years old) on there with his sister holding a fist on the ground under his chest, and he was going all the way up and all the way down to her hand. Everybody else is doing this short arm BS.
See, anybody can do 100 pushups....if they're doing them wrong.
I`m 39 and can do 100 pushups with pushup bars correctly.
I just choose not to as a part of my regular workouts
To the OP go for it ,it wont do you any arm (probibily wont do you a whole lotta good either