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#81
03-09-2007, 10:59 AM
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Re: 1000 Push ups per day
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. 
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#82
03-09-2007, 11:11 AM
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Re: 1000 Push ups per day
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i use to do 400 pushups and 500 situps a day in about 25 minutes. 1000 would be no problem. [/ QUOTE ] Do you mean proper pushups, or just pushing yourself up and down a few inches really fast? :P
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#83
03-09-2007, 01:36 PM
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Re: 1000 Push ups per day
How do you work up to being able to do large amounts of pushups? Are you guys doing these to failure in all your sets? I'd like to be able to do large amounts of push ups, but just have never been able too.
I guess I'm just shocked when I hear everyone talking about how they can do 100 push ups. I can do ~30 slow full push ups, but would like to be able to do many more.
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#84
03-09-2007, 01:58 PM
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Re: 1000 Push ups per day
i know of 2 methods: tabata, and ladder. I personally did the ladder method, but i've heard crazy good things about tabata (which i've done a number of times, just not consistently)
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#86
03-09-2007, 02:57 PM
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Re: 1000 Push ups per day
dknight,
A normal person who's not in great shape already is not going to be able to do 8 sets of tabata on push ups. There has to be a system for people who can't already kick out 60 of them.
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#87
03-09-2007, 03:24 PM
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Re: 1000 Push ups per day
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[ QUOTE ] 20 pushups only takes about 20-30 seconds. [/ QUOTE ] Not if you're doing them correctly. Doing them this fast means you are either doing them as I described earlier or you're essentially bouncing up and down and putting a lot of strain on your elbows and shoulders. If you aren't lowering yourself in a slow, controlled manner, you aren't doing them right. [/ QUOTE ] 1 second is plenty of time to do a push up 1.5 is on the long side.
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#88
03-09-2007, 03:34 PM
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Re: 1000 Push ups per day
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A person with shorter arms will have a much easier time on the bench press than a person with shorter arms. [/ QUOTE ] Nice All, Back in my HS football days we would have saturday morning practice which always consisted of a push up contest. Everyone would split up into their specific groups (ie lineman, linebackers, DBs and WRs, Running Backs) I have no clue where the QB went, but that's not the point. We would all start in the UP position (Apparently that's 'civilian' talk) and the coach would say DOWN. Then we would remain down (90 degrees) until the coach said UP. Sometimes they would be fast DOWN UPs, but other times we would be down for 3-5 seconds. When you touched the ground you were out. The top push-upper in each group didn't have to do the campus run (very close to a mile). I remember winning it ever so often and it seemed like 70-80 was a good number. Of course, this was back in the day when I weighed 190 and benched 280... ahhh those were the days. oh and another thing... reading this entire thread kinda made me mad. Some of you people are real [censored] and I'm glad I don't post much in OOT anymore. What is with all the hate?? I guarantee 90% of OOT couldn't come close to 1000 pushups in a single day if you had to start right now. Yet there are always 10 people in every challenge thread saying they could do something "with ease" I suggest trying do to 1000 pushups today... and when you get to 180 and realize that your arms don't work anymore, come back and post saying that you are a lying bastard who happens to have a 4 inch [censored]. -WW
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#89
03-09-2007, 04:04 PM
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Re: 1000 Push ups per day
like i have stated earlier, unless you have trained in a way to allows for maximizing pushup numbers, you wont be able to do it RIGHT OFF THE BAT. I said you can easily build up to it. Sure, it might take you a few months or longer, but once you are at point, doing 1000 pushups a day every day is as easy a marathon runner running 4 miles a day.
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#90
03-09-2007, 04:35 PM
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Re: 1000 Push ups per day
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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. [/ QUOTE ] lol, i just did one set of push-ups to failure. i was able to do 8 push-ups. my arms are long for my size, but i'm huge. i'm 6'3, 240lbs, and i have ridiculously long arms and legs. seriously, to lower down for a push-up i have to drop down like 3 full feet. and then i have this massive body to push back up. so yeah, i would think push-ups would definitely be easier for people with short arms and small bodies. but i can hit a golf ball a lot further than those guys =)
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