Push ups- Boxers who claimed to do a lot of them.

Ron Lyle doing 1,000 in an hour on a bowl of spinach, very nice. Bruno in rehab doing 4,000 a day very, very nice George Foreman doing 4x25 and that's it "Perfect" lol. You get the point of the thread just drop down some claims...

 

Read once that Archie Moore did 250 a day, and walked on his hands everyday.

 

Slightly off topic but i used to do push up routine similar to Ron Lyle when i was in lockdown. I'd do 1000 push ups in a hour but i didn't have any spinach like Lyle. When i got bored of doing that i found a push up exercise video on Youtube, which focused on slower and more intense movements and much lower reps, and i could barely get through the routine some of these push ups were insanely hard. Just goes to show me doing 1000 push ups meant nothing.

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This is video i was on about which i did during lockdown, sorry if i slightly derailed the thread with my rambling.

 

I believe you are talking about "calisthenics".

 

Sounds like a lot but if you break it down into smaller sets it's not that big a deal. I do P90X workouts and one of them includes a lot of push-ups. 12 sets of 30 in a 45-minute workout. Very doable.

 

I once read Carlos Palomino did several sets of 30 pushups during the course of his training day and he attributed his punching power to them.

 

That's what my dad had me do and I was hitting like a truck when I took up combat sports. He never let me off the hook and made me redo them if I was being lazy or half assing them.

 

Sometimes you have take it with a grain of salt when someone says they can do X number of sets. For example look at Bud's and Broner's push ups - poor form.

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James Scott had a lot of time on his hands in Rahway Prison and made the most of it.

IRRC he did like 1,000 pushups and 1,500 sit-ups a day.

 

Whats your pull-up game like?

 

I remember reading that Liston did 1000s (2,000?) of push ups per day, or was it sit ups? Maybe it was both. At any rate, prime Liston looked like a rock all round and the product of some seriously hard work. Also read something similar re Jumbo Cummings - the numbers might’ve been a bit exaggerated but the overall point was that they were spartan like and obsessive in their training.

 

Well since the gyms are open now, I'm focusing more on weight training. As I'm trying to bulk up atm.

Ny routine is Chest/Triceps, Back/Biceps/, Shoulders/Forearms, And then finally Legs.

And on my rest days I may do some light cardio and some ab workouts.

 

First guy I thought of, and I remember hearing it was more than that.

 

Edison Miranda I think claimed was a push up freak and didnt do any weights.
He did have an outstanding physique in his prime.

 

Very nice! Although more time under tension is too undiscerning; actually the 1000 push ups is far more time under tension.
But they are too easy, his exercises benefit from him doing things that are much harder & poushing it further.
But maximum muscular growth & strength overwhelmingly tends to come from something you are forced to use your bigger strnger muscle fiber types for-since they not endurance fibers are recruited.

Although drop sets also get the sacroplasmic benefit-bulk from water, sugars & capillary development-mainly if you are strong enough per body weight to do the harder push ups fewer times, you will build more muscle.
Although he usually did not go all the way down...There are so many ways to do push ups & ways to short cut or cheat, so they are an imperfect test of strenth per body weight (also because unlike say a deep dip, you are only using manybe 2/3 of your body weight even with proper form, so it largely tracks endurance.