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I'm a 40 year old male. I've been fairly active in my life in the gym and doing martial arts and cycling but we had a kid 2 years ago and I pretty much gave up the bike and martial arts and my gym time is 2-3 45 strength training sessions per week which combined with sedative job and "ok" diet has put about 20 lbs since the baby. Recently I decided I'm going to do push ups every day in addition to gym since I can at least drop and give myself 20 every hour or two at work. I've been doing 100 push ups per day in 10-20 push up chunks for a week. I'm very sore but I also feel stronger and I've gone from being able to do 10 crappy push ups at a time to 20 good push ups at a time. Next I plan on moving toward more push up variations and hopefully one arms in the future!
But everything I've learned about training over the years makes me wary of overtraining so I'm curious if any of you do push ups every single day without a break? My uncle was in the Marines for 20 years and according to him he did push ups and ran with an 80 lb backpack everyday so I know it's possible
I do not know about every day, but I do them a whole lot, a good percentage of my days over the decades I did do them.
Not to the extent you state; I do them for warming up on my lifting days, and for my muay thai days there are a bunch. Generally only 5-6 time a week, but also low as 2-3 times a week.
You would have to be really pushing it to over train on push ups. I doubt a hundred a day comes even close.
I used to do pushups every day. yep. Overtrained a lot. The rule for exercise is if you can do it everyday, you are not doing it very intensely. If you're doing it intensely you won't be able to do it every day.
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My uncle was in the Marines for 20 years and according to him he did push ups and ran with an 80 lb backpack everyday so I know it's possible
I do pushups twice a week. Even though you only use not even your full bodyweight in a pushup I don't think its a good idea to do them everyday if you intend to do high repetitions. Muscles need time to recuperate. If you're doing a lot of reps in the pushup every day you run the risk of injury. You might get away with it for a while, but sooner or later you will probably incur an overuse injury in your shoulder.
I also think that 100 a day is excessive. Nobody needs to do that many. Two sets of 20 or so three times a week is plenty. But you need to do other muscle groups as well. And as far as benefitting functional fitness, push ups aren't really all that and a bag of chips. This is why XFit--who specializes in useful functional fitness--really doesn't have alot of them in their various WOD's.
Besides, weren't you complaining about gaining weight from your sympathetic pregnancy? LOL (Cracks me up how that works with dudes sometimes, when their wives have kids.) So you should find a cardio exercise that you enjoy, and get into THAT instead of hammering out useless p/u's every day like clockwork. I'm gonna so so far as to call push-ups one of the most overrated exercises out there. But this is just my opinion and experience, and I have not researched the matter, outside of my own experience as being a longtime athlete and gym rat.
I'm a 40 year old male. I've been fairly active in my life in the gym and doing martial arts and cycling but we had a kid 2 years ago and I pretty much gave up the bike and martial arts and my gym time is 2-3 45 strength training sessions per week which combined with sedative job and "ok" diet has put about 20 lbs since the baby. Recently I decided I'm going to do push ups every day in addition to gym since I can at least drop and give myself 20 every hour or two at work. I've been doing 100 push ups per day in 10-20 push up chunks for a week. I'm very sore but I also feel stronger and I've gone from being able to do 10 crappy push ups at a time to 20 good push ups at a time. Next I plan on moving toward more push up variations and hopefully one arms in the future!
But everything I've learned about training over the years makes me wary of overtraining so I'm curious if any of you do push ups every single day without a break? My uncle was in the Marines for 20 years and according to him he did push ups and ran with an 80 lb backpack everyday so I know it's possible
I rarely do pushups and don't see any reason to do them since I lift and do bench presses 2-3 times a week. At 62, I can still do 40-50 pushups. If you can do that many, the exercise is strictly an endurance exercise. Do you ever see someone doing 50 reps on the bench press?
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