push up competition

[djeclipse]

I just wanna know when you're gonna kill yourself???

LOL!

Is that video ready yet, or are you finally ready to admit your internet stats are only real to those gullible enough to believe them. Unfortunately for you. no one here is

 

[cboogsrun]

When you did your military training you increased your reps via endurance training, which is very effective apparently. That doesn't mean heavy weight training won't help increase reps as well. Strength and endurance combo is the best. Without enough strength, you can't max out your muscles true endurance. By that I mean, when I was in middle school, I could do like 22 pushups, I was a lurp. I could again do 22 pushups with 2 minutes rest, and again with 2 minutes rest. I just didn't have enough strength to really tax my endurance.


But do you believe that benching heavy will help contribute to the ability to perform more reps if correlated also with endurance training like you described in your military training?

I know for a fact that before I started lifting weights, I could do about 35 pushups, weak sauce. I hadn't done a single pushup for more than a year, and when I couldn't make it on chest day to the gym because of my uncle's funeral in march this year, I did pushups to subistitute, I did 82 pushups in one set, and did a second set of 60+. My pushups increased by more than double without every doing one single pushup. I trained in the 8-12 rep range on bench, with a few 4-6 rep sets once in a while.

Fact: Heavy weight training will help you do more push ups than before without ever doing one.

I believe getting stronger will help you do more pushups. However mass reps will increase body weight, which in my experience hurts the amount of pushups a person will be able to do. You still havent done a set of 100, which will require endurance training.

 

[cboogsrun]

Lets see a pic of the world record holder. I'm guessing he is a skinny fella. Probably has tons of slow twitch muscle fibers as GJohnson was saying. Now lets take a look at the world record holder Scott Mendelson, he's a big mother fucker.

 

[Azinine]

Damn. This guy banged out 100 push ups easy. Looks like he could bench heavy, too.

 

[djeclipse]

While I believe weight training will help one be able to do more pushups, I think there's a threshold. I would doubt that a 250+ lb PL'er could do as many pushups as a guy who weighed 180 and did nothing but pushups every day (2 extremes, I know). But take the middle ground somewhere...a guy training mainly with bodyweight exercises focused on highest # of reps, while also adding in some weight training for additional strength, while keeping bodyweight fairly low, would probably be optimal at this competition.

I've looked at videos for planche pushups (the kind where your feet don't touch the ground), and planche pushups into 90 degree pushups, and none of the guys that are able to do them are real mass monsters.

That vid is insane. What balance and BW strength that guy has to do that.