Whats the Best Exercise to be able to do more Pushups??

**Freedom-Fighter** · 05-04-2010, 09:26 PM

Whats the Best Exercise to perform, which will allow you to be able to do more Push up's in a single rep?

Would push ups be the best, or would heavy benching, or some other form of chest exercise?

**Arian** · 05-04-2010, 09:34 PM

Basically you need to practice what you want to be good at. Heavy benching won't hurt because it will give you more strength, but if you're looking to do lots of pushups for a PRT or something, mainly do that. That's more about endurance than strength. Or you can try doing semi-light weight and lots of reps on the bench, I guess.

**mario_ps2** · 05-04-2010, 10:03 PM

Originally Posted by Freedom-Fighter

Whats the Best Exercise to perform, which will allow you to be able to do more Push up's in a single rep?

Would push ups be the best, or would heavy benching, or some other form of chest exercise?

how about weighted push-ups!!!

**6ft5** · 05-04-2010, 10:25 PM

Dang dude! Is that u in the avy? You look like you'd be sble to do 10000000. Lol I work outa town and if my chest day falls and I don't have a gym I use thos perfect pushup things. I likem a lot. They put you bout 4-5 inches off the ground. I start incline feet on a chair. 4 sets 10-15. Couple sets of incline narrow for the tris. Flat 4 sets 10-15 or falure. Move slow w some static holds, they twist so you can squeez them out. Then dips 4 sets 15-20 add weight I bring ez curl w 105 or dumbells. Putem in lap and dip away. All that depends on how my split is.

**cherrydrpepper** · 05-05-2010, 01:57 AM

I would look up some vids on youtube. That said once in a while take a break from the weights and do dips, knuckle pushups, diamond pushups, wide grip pushups if you are that serious about it. Try ending extreme sets with seeing how long you can stay in the pushup position with muscles contracted at the end of the set.

**MaNiCC** · 05-05-2010, 01:53 PM

Push ups imo

Try doing different variations of push ups, weighted push ups may help

have you ever tried setting yourself a time limit of say 2 minutes and seein how many push ups you can do?

**PC650** · 05-05-2010, 01:57 PM

push ups with a spotter!!!. get force reps. heavy bench press!!!

**Freedom-Fighter** · 05-05-2010, 11:08 PM

Thanks for the Responses everyone!

Yup that's me in the pic.

Right now i can push out about 75 push-ups in about 2 min....but i want to find a way to get that number around 100...but i have hit a wall and i cant seem to get around it. What i have been doing is as many variations of push-ups as i can think of.

Hoe often do you all think i should be working my chest if the key is for more reps?? I have been doing them hard on Mon/Wen/Fri....is that not enough...or overkill?

**6ft5** · 05-05-2010, 11:37 PM

Very impressive! I think if you do bench body weight plus lbs, and static almost unbearable holds you will tear down deeper muscle tissue that could add valuable strength... Dogcrap says choose three exercised per body part create a split for one exercise eod example upper, middle, lower, inside, or outside. Pic 3. Work out one of those eod in sequence. Reason instead of breaking down whole muscle group which leads to a longer recovery. Only break down that one pretty good with static he said good warm up then heavy. OK, then off day for recovery, then next muscle of the 3. Then off ect. That means you can grow more times a year versus the conventional way. Just throwing that out there.