How many push-ups a day?

2-3 times a week i do about 100 pushups (10 in 10 repetitions) and i try to change the type of pushup on every repetition. wider, tighter, high hands (above forehead), low (below chin), with claps, on fists, on fingers etc..

 

Guy at my gym does 100 a day

He has insane hand speed

 

3 sets x 40 pushups. I could do more if i wanted to.

Pushups are the best upper body strength exercise without using weights. Someone may disagree and say pullups though!

 

I don't ever do them. I do handstand pushups sometimes. Pushups are probably the most redundant exercise a boxer can do, maybe worth doing as part of a warm up but that's about it.

 

Not true. Handstand pushups, planches, one-handed push ups, pull-ups, chin-ups to name a few.

 

why are then pushups part of almost every gyms strength training?

 

It depends on your goals. If you look at bodyweight training as a strength building excercise, you shouldn't do it anymore than twice a week in my opinion, unless you're on roids or you're a genetic freak.

Once a week may be enough depending on your progressions. Try doing one handed push ups.

If you're goal is stamina and endurance, I suppose you could do them everyday, but I thing strength and volume tend to be mutually exclusive.

 

Because a boxing strength training session is usually push ups interspersed with punching bags, doing sit ups, skipping rope etc. In other words boxers 'strength training' isn't really strength training, throwing some push ups and sit ups into a training session isn't helping anything unless you're a fat/inactive person.
If a push up is a strength exercise for you or anyone else then there is no other way to put it, you're weak as ****.

 

This makes a whole load of no sense. Nonsense... that's the word I'm looking for.

 

I suppose it doesn't make sense if you don't have good reading comprehension.

Maybe you could explain to me how this doesn't make sense.

 

...so boxers are doing push ups? you said that it is a most redudant excercise, now you say that boxers are doing it.. make up with your mind

 

That's my point, boxers do it and it's pointless, like most of their conditioning methods. That's why when a guy shows up like Ariza who is just an average strength and conditioning coach he gets treated like a genius in the boxing world.

 

Talking about roids, being a genetic freak by doing pushups more than twice a week, then saying only doing push ups once a week is enough, implying that pushups can be a strength or an endurance exercise (when your body is going to weigh the same), implying that you could do them occasionally for a strength exercise or everyday for endurance (contradictions much). Basically a whole load of nonsense.
Anything else you need me to clarify?

 

Steriods allow your body to recover more quickly, so you could do low repetition excercises more often and still get stronger.

If you do pushups everyday, it's unlikely that you'll get stronger, but you'll improve your muscular endurance.

Like I said, strength and volume are typically mutually exclusive.

Now if you don't view push ups as a strength building excercise at all, you must have no problem pushing out 50 one handed pushups with your legs together.

But realistically, say for instance you could only perform 5 one handed pushups when you're well rested.

If you do pushups every single day, it is unlikely that this number will ever improve, and more likely that it may actually decline because your body is too exhausted to perform something that requires this much strength everyday.

Understand?