[QUOTE=gamefreek76;27454073]The correct amount of weight is however much weight it is to keep you from doing more than 10 - 15.
Get a tight fitting backpack and fill it with textbooks or other heavy things (keep the weight on your shoulders, not your lower back) until you can't physically pass the limit. Once you're able to do more than 15 add more weight.
This is how you gain muscle. 100 push ups is just wasted effort.[/QUOTE]
That sounds more like compressing the amount of exercise you do into less reps. I hardly think that if you do 100 push ups and then can't do any more that the last 85 of them were "wasted effort" and didn't work your muscles at all.
Sign me up. I wasn't going to, but when I only hit 20 in the "test", I felt like scum, so I figure I have to do it.
I am in.I will do this shit
Okay, I'm in.
oh the naiveté
I can already do 100 :smug:
I've been meaning to start this since 2 weeks ago, I can do 25, so I'm rank 3. I'm in!
Also gunna be doing the 200 sit-up program.
Also I when I went to London in the holidays my uncle took me to his kick boxing/judo session. The instructor told me my push-ups where too good and that I was being too hard on my self, he said that I should cheat a little more.
[QUOTE=Chrille;27455680]oh the naiveté[/QUOTE]
Do tell, oh master of the physical arts.
Count me in, the only muscle I have is to lift my beer.
While I completely doubt my ability to ever be able to do 100 push-ups, I'm in.
I could do 25 on the initial.
I'm in.
only 6 at the initial
Lets do this!
[QUOTE=gamefreek76;27454073]The correct amount of weight is however much weight it is to keep you from doing more than 10 - 15.
Get a tight fitting backpack and fill it with textbooks or other heavy things (keep the weight on your shoulders, not your lower back) until you can't physically pass the limit. Once you're able to do more than 15 add more weight.
This is how you gain muscle. 100 push ups is just wasted effort.[/QUOTE]
There's fast-twitch muscle and slow-twitch muscle. The former is for explosiveness, the latter is for endurance. Doing 100 push ups is a great exercise for conditioning your muscles; you can be the strongest guy in the world, but you aren't shit if you get tired after 10 seconds of activity.
There's ways of modifying push ups without using weights. For example, you could do clap push ups, which train your muscles to be explosive as well as conditioned. Nobody is going to turn into Mr. Universe just from doing push ups, but don't discredit doing 100 of them as being a great goal for people who aren't exactly athletic.
[QUOTE=MaverickIB;27456381]There's fast-twitch muscle and slow-twitch muscle. The former is for explosiveness, the latter is for endurance. Doing 100 push ups is a great exercise for conditioning your muscles; you can be the strongest guy in the world, but you aren't shit if you get tired after 10 seconds of activity.
There's ways of modifying push ups without using weights. For example, you could do clap push ups, which train your muscles to be explosive as well as conditioned. Nobody is going to turn into Mr. Universe just from doing push ups, but don't discredit doing 100 of them as being a great goal for people who aren't exactly athletic.[/QUOTE]
Look at me, I didn't even manage 5. If I follow this, I can achive 6 :buddy:
I got to 50 today, not bad for a 20 pound underweight nerde'
Did 20 at the initial, I guess that's rather strong than weak, but I'm doing this because I don't have any muscles to impress the ladies :q:
Managed to do 20, good enough for me.
Now to do this three times a week? Fuck Im not gonna be able to keep that up.
[QUOTE=GoldenGnome;27455824]Do tell, oh master of the physical arts.[/QUOTE]
most of you aren't going to complete it
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you don't have to be a master of the physical arts to tell that
[QUOTE=mobrockers;27456548]Managed to do 20, good enough for me.
Now to do this three times a week? Fuck Im not gonna be able to keep that up.[/QUOTE]
I'm expecting this thread to keep reminding me, I visit GD a few times a day so if the thread doesn't die I will keep excercising
I tried this, couldn't complete it.
I can do about 50 right about now, but 100 would be a good mile stone, I'm in!
So tomorrow we all do the first set of push-ups, to see our initial rank, and then every week on monday, wednesday and friday, we all do push-ups again?
And am I supposed to do my very best each time, until I can't do another single push-up because my hands can't move and all that? I used to get to 70 I think if I used up all of my strength, but that was back when I was in better shape, maybe I'll get to 50 now, and I guess that getting to a 100 in a few weeks won't be so hard.
Edit: oh, and sign me up on the OP.
i started this 2 weeks ago and i can say it works
[editline]16th January 2011[/editline]
put me on the list sucka
[editline]16th January 2011[/editline]
i did 14 at the initial if that counts
Added a crapload of additional names to the OP, I think I'll stop at 100 if we reach it; adding names sucks.
And to clarify, the program doesn't involve maxing out every week, it's more along the lines of following a simple schedule that rotates the amount of pushups in 3 sets, for what is supposedly maximum efficiency.
We'll start tomorrow, Monday, January 17th.
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I'll be starting at [url=http://hundredpushups.com/week3.html]Week 3[/url]. Here's the link to [url=http://hundredpushups.com/week1.html]Week 1[/url] for those of us below 20.
Good luck, men.
Just did 24 on the intial test, on to week three.
Ill do it.
who does non-incline pushups anymore?
If you want to work out your core a little bit as well, do a push up and then bring a knee to the opposite elbow. For example, you do your standard push up, then bring your left knee to your right elbow, making sure your knee or anything else besides your hands/feet don't touch the floor. Then do another push up and do the opposite, the right knee to the left elbow.
Works your core a bit and helps out on flexibility as well. It's not extremely difficult either, so most of you should be able to manage it.
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