What’s a good amount of push ups to do in one continual rep?

[NoBacon]

What is considered impressive? What’s considered normal?

I don’t know and googling it produces a bunch of vastly different results and google is effectively useless now.

 

[soulbrotherman#1]

20 so you can do 5 sets in 10 mins, but you gotta build to that

But I'm not overweight, so maybe less for you

 

[NoBacon]

20 so you can do 5 sets in 10 mins, but you gotta build to that

But I'm not overweight, so maybe less for you

I can easily do that. I can do 50 perfect push ups in one go but after 40 it’s super difficult and by 50 I’m at muscle failure. Some dude told me anything over 30 is pointless so I’ve been doing sets of 30.

I don’t like lifting weights so I mostly stick to body weight exercises and cardio. I’m not trying to improve my aesthetics or anything, just maintain a basic level of fitness in life. “Carry your engine” is the term I think.

 

[ShutYourCakeHorn]

The only push ups i do is when i push myself up from the couch to grab another beer.

 

[Carl Winslow]

After I stretch, I do 60. I don't know where that doing over 30 is pointless is coming from?

there was the 200 a day thing I heard about. One day you do 200 as fast as you can... So like do as many as you can till burn out, than keep going when you can to 200. Than the next day do 200, but do them in the highest reps you can. so like for me, 40 X 5 would work.

 

[NoBacon]

After I stretch, I do 60. I don't know where that doing over 30 is pointless is coming from?

there was the 200 a day thing I heard about. One day you do 200 as fast as you can... So like do as many as you can till burn out, than keep going when you can to 200. Than the next day do 200, but do them in the highest reps you can. so like for me, 40 X 5 would work.

He basically said it’s diminishing returns and not actually doing anything but testing your will power at that point, that you aren’t increasing your strength or anything like that. I have no idea how accurate that is but I’ve taken it on as if it is.

 

[Hoolies]

Time to go full retard: https://medium.com/@thesimonboulter/explosive-push-up-progressions-c48b1d73e822

 

[Consensual Rapist]

Depends on how many penis’ you’ll be awarded after each one.

 

[Riccardo Bosi]

My uncle's a part of this Facebook gym group that encourages them to partake in daily rep challenges, i.e. "30 pushups today, 200 tomorrow", that kind of thing. One month it was, for every second day, 500 reps of anything. The trick was you could convince yourself that it's not difficult because you're doing 3 sets of 14 reps of 12 different exercises (3 x 14 x 12 = 504) so once you've done 42 reps of triceps, you can give them a rest and do 42 squats and then go back to the arms and do 42 bicep curls.

He said after the month was done he found it easy because he had evenly improved everything without overdoing anything. But if you like, if you can do 50 push ups but keep upping those numbers if that's what you like best. The idea was just that if you can do 500 reps of anything, you're going to improve your general fitness. For example, I'm good at that upside down leg press thingy (I can do it at whatever the max weight of it is at my gym) and I think I could knock out 100 of those. I must have stronger tendon strength in my legs, because they're shit in my forearms.

 

[Dennyislife]

I do about 300,000 before I eat a virgin woman's vulva on toast.

 

[AntSucks]

Hypertrophy range is 6-25 reps. After that its all about endurance. Your triceps and forearms will probably tire out before your pecs. Your core muscles which are holding you in the plank position will start to give out. Your last reps will be just you fucking the floor.

So a higher rep count of 50 or above is more of a measure of overall fitness. So once you get over 25 reps going further is pointless. Just find ways to make them harder. Do them slower, put a weight plate on your back, etc.

 

[Papa Goldendick]

After I stretch, I do 60. I don't know where that doing over 30 is pointless is coming from?

there was the 200 a day thing I heard about. One day you do 200 as fast as you can... So like do as many as you can till burn out, than keep going when you can to 200. Than the next day do 200, but do them in the highest reps you can. so like for me, 40 X 5 would work.

He basically said it’s diminishing returns and not actually doing anything but testing your will power at that point, that you aren’t increasing your strength or anything like that. I have no idea how accurate that is but I’ve taken it on as if it is.

At the very least you're not giving your muscles enough time to repair between sessions. Muscle is grown during rest periods, that's why you should wait at least 48 hours before training a particular muscle group again.

Say muscle again, stupid

 

[Ants Hard Drive of Horror]

You should be able to do at least your age in reps. So 20 if you're 20, 40 if you're 40, 80 if you're 80.