Okay, so I’m reporting for some military training in two months. I’ve been working out hard, training solid, really getting amped up for this. Miles good. Pullups are okay. I figured that I would dominate the push-ups and th crunches from my weightlifting. Tested out today…I was wrong.
Could only hit about 55 push-ups and 50 crunches in a row. Not sure if it’s just because I’m not used to the movement, or if I’m really weak in these areas. So, what’s the best way to increase push-up and crunch numbers
When I was young and thought doing a lot of push-ups was cool, I once worked myself up to 400 in one sitting by using the following method.
Each day, do 1 max set of push-ups. The next day, do that number +1. Repeat indefinitely.
Somehow, there is always room for one more. Eventually, when numbers get higher, you can add 2s, 5s, and 10s as applicable, but when in doubt, 1 always works.
Well I did some more today, hit 60 push-ups pretty easy, 60 crunches with just a little struggle. I’m thinking it’s not so much strength, I’m just not used to training such high rep. How do y’all think this sounds, every other day, first thing in the morning, 100 crunches and 100 push-ups in as few sets as possible
Well I did some more today, hit 60 push-ups pretty easy, 60 crunches with just a little struggle. I’m thinking it’s not so much strength, I’m just not used to training such high rep. How do y’all think this sounds, every other day, first thing in the morning, 100 crunches and 100 push-ups in as few sets as possible
When I want to increase my push up numbers, I usually set a max number of push up that must be done that day,and then I do them at different times of the day. E.g if my max is 350 I’ll do some in the morning the rest in the afternoon and also at night,I also add weighted push ups for a while,then revert back to normal push ups,I’ve found out that it is easier to increase on my reps that way. But most importantly I think push ups require a lot of mental effort,if you can see yourself completing your rep target in your mind,more often than not you would meet the target
I’ve used this set up several times in the past. Every Monday/Wed/Friday you will do 6 sets of 25 push ups. For you starting off I would use 6 sets of 10. Execute a set then rest for one minute. Do this for the next set. After the third set rest 2 minutes. Set 4, 5, and 6 will have a 2 minute break. Same set up for Sit ups which will be worked Tue/Thursday. I used 6 x 50. But it seems your numbers on Push ups and sit ups are roughly the same. Try to do your sit ups without anything holding your feet.
Summary:
M/W/F 6 x 25-Suggest week 1 sets of 10/week 2 sets of 15/WK 3 sets of 20/WK 4-8 sets of 25
Tue/Thu 6 x 25-Try to build up to 6 x 50
[quote]adambiethman wrote:
Well I did some more today, hit 60 push-ups pretty easy, 60 crunches with just a little struggle. I’m thinking it’s not so much strength, I’m just not used to training such high rep. How do y’all think this sounds, every other day, first thing in the morning, 100 crunches and 100 push-ups in as few sets as possible[/quote]
Sounds good to me. Just keep trying to get as many reps in the first set, and eventually you’ll be doing those 100 reps all in a single set.
