1000 Push ups per day

[Valsuvious]

Well, during my days in the Army, I used to do somewhere around 120 or so pushups in that 2 minutes during my Physical Training Test. I normally would stop around that time, because as described above by Youtalkfunny, the test only gives you points at a certain point. For my age bracket, doing more wouldn't give me more points, it would just make more tired. For my age at the time (24), it would take me about 45 seconds to do the required 90, so sometimes if I did more it was just for kicks.

I got out in 2003, so I can tell you the Army requirements for push-ups is exactly as stated. Only thing that I saw that was different that he mentioned, was that at any point you lift your foot off of the ground, the test is terminated. You are allowed to move them around, just cannot lift them off of the ground. I was terminated one time because a rock managed to get in the way and my foot slipped on it.

Anyways, as far as doing 1000 pushups in a day, I don't see how someone who isn't in shape can do it. Right now, sometimes after I work out I'll do pushups later that night, but normally I cannot get anymore than 50 in or so before I'm extremely tired (mind you, I would have done some chest exercises that day).

Also, doing this many would require you to do different forms of push-ups, mainly decribed above using the different techniques (hands farther apart or closer together). This helps you obviously do more because you are using all of the muscles every way instead of just focusing on a single part of each muscle.

Last thing is, keep in mind that for each individual person, the easiness that they can do push-ups is determined by a few factors. Obviously, part of it is how good of shape you are in. Other factors includes the length of your arms. It was always harder for me to do push-ups because for my body size, I have arms that are a little bit longer than normal. In times of my PT test, this normally meant that I would have to go down a little bit more to break that 90 degree angle, because I thought that I was breaking it, but my spotter wouldn't count a lot of them. You can also see the same principle applied to weighlifters. A person with shorter arms will have a much easier time on the bench press than a person with shorter arms. My friend and I started working out at the same time a few years ago together. He was very short, about 5'3. By the time that we had been doing it 6 months, his bench press had gotten a lot better than mine, he was able to do more weight, but biceps curling was easier for me and I gained more mass quicker even though we were doing the same amount and everything.