Push ups: Goal to reach 100

I want to be able to do 100+ push ups, and I was wondering how to reach that level. Currently, my max is 45. I do 1, maybe 2 sets of push ups about 4 times a week.

Can anyone tell me what I need to do to be able to reach my goal? Thanks for the advice

 

Do pushups.

I know where this thread is headed too... :Alien:

 

Bench pressing will help quite a bit, but the only way you'll really be able to do 100 pushups is to do loads of pushups. Why do you want to do this, anyway?

 

If you're not going to help, don't bother posting.

 

Because I plan on going to the military, and I thought it would give me an advantage.

How much is loads of push ups? Can there be too much. What would be too much in one day? Wouldn't "loads" lead to overtraining?

 

I was helping.

How did you get to 45? Keep doing that.

 

I'm no H&F guru, I'm sure some of the H&F mods - all of whom really know their stuff - will be by shortly. My advice, in the meantime, would be just to keep doing what you're doing right now. Do you lift weights? If not, some compound lifts (particularly the bench press) would help you achieve this goal of yours.
If you don't want to do that, just keep doing the pushups the way you are now, but don't go to failure. When you can't do anymore, you've done too many

 

Don't just do the same pushup over and over, use variations:

Normal width
wider than shoulder
narrower than shoulder
diamond
hindu
divebomber
mantis
Backarch pushup
T-Pushup
One handed
Plyometric
On a basket/medicine/ball

Plus incline, decline and on your knuckles or fingers.

Make sure you're eating right, lots of protein and fiber to cut down on the recovery time and an overall good nutritional plan.

What branch are you trying to join?

 

Having done some heavy bench press and dumbell press I found 40 pressups difficult yet I achieved them having not trained for endurance. At about 30 I slowed down a little and the last three were real grinds.

 

Work your push-ups in sets like everything else. Start out with sets of 15 and do five sets, build from there.

 

Yea, sets are good. Try this... do 4 sets of 25 with say 30-60 secs rest between sets. When the last sets start to become easier then decrease the rest time between set till you can do 'em non stop.

 

While you do that, also train for 100 pull ups .

 

My cousine does 188 straight.
Here is his training adopted to you.
Do 20 5 times a day. Only 3 times a week for first week.
Second week, do Monday Wensday Friday 25, and T Th Sa- 15. 6 sets every day.
Add a few reps per week to each day. Add one more set every two weeks.
You should
do 100 approximately when you can do 8 sets of 40.

He got that from some fitness guru a while back.

Good luck.

 

I got up to 130 without too much time spent on it. I would just do 500 pushups per night, and it got me over 100 real quick. Start with 500 on a night, then wait until you are not sore for another 500 session. Then just repeat the process. Make sure you always wait until you are no longer sore.

It may take many, many sets to complete it. You may get down to 5 pushups per set. Don't worry about it. You may not even be able to finish it, in that case just keep going until you can't do another one.

Once you can do 500 in a night, start doing more pushups per set, and try to do less and less sets.

 

sets spread out through the day (Micro)
or
going up to 500 (RadoK)?

I am not sure, if someone would be able to get up to that.
How many set's does it take you?

 

I would do a couple sets of 50, which knocked off the first 100 right there. Then I would do sets of 25 as long as I could, then sets of ten, then a couple of 5's. Just sit there and catch your breath until you feel you can get the next set. Just push yourself through it, it is incredibly painful, but I have never found anything to increase max pushups faster.

 

Do you do this with only push ups, or other calisthentics as well?

 

Repetition. Starting out push-ups is all about repetition and low quantities. When I started off, I did 10 sets of 10. After a week I increased the sets to 10 of 15. I increased my reps and decreased sets, until I got to a comfortable 250 in one shot once a day. This worked for me, I don't 'lift weights' or any other "unnatural" exersize. You will probably vary.

 

How do you do these? I have never heard of them.

I would also like to increase my max of push ups. I don't have very good upper body strength (But typical for a girl I think).
When I started martial arts I could barely do one set on my knees, now I can manage one set of full pushups and another on my knees. But thats taken me two years!
Can anyone tell me the best way for developing upper body strength?

 

To increase your overall push-up capability just to a lot of reps. Don't worry much about the style, just start with your hands pretty much directly under your shoulders and touch your nose to the ground with each push-up. Hand-position can be fist, flat, or finger(s). Don't max yourself out. I don't how many you are counting as a set, but I'd recommend cutting the number in half and doing it 3-4 times a day if you can.