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As a man that ended up getting shoulder tendonitis because of the excessive volume and not training the minor muscles all I have to say it that Jeff is saving lives with videos like these
I had the same experience. I wasn’t training counter muscles like my back muscles and sitting all day at a computer. My arms were going numb every night, and the only solution was going to physical therapy and working on back muscles.
@@27Ashishnayak To clarify I also kickbox competitively. Together with my obsession with pushups( I love them because you can make them hard, do a lot of them and they are very useful to build discipline) I developed tendonitis in my left shoulder likely from all the repetitive movement. I have been out for like 2.5 months already but I'm getting close to a return. I have gotten plenty of massages, electric current therapy and ultrasounds(both really helpful) and have also gotten 2 plasma injections (game changers). Shoulders were always my strongest upper body part so I really missed my favourite exercises( handstands, presses etc) during rehab. Instead every day is a combination of leg workouts and corrective movements for my shoulders and upper back. I only wish I started doing those sooner. I was so focused on getting stronger that I got some muscles way stronger than others that are supposed to be working together. This imbalance led to the tendon getting involved more than it should. Learn from my mistake and do your corrective exercises before you get hurt. Also don't push your newfound strength too much, rather let the rest of your body catch up. It's easier to reach your fitness goals if you are healthy
I've been doing this for a week.. Breaking it up.. I'll do them for 2 days, break for a day and then do another day, break and go 2 days ect. A week and a half and I already can see small results.. Which is pushing me to get fully into this.. My brithday is in May.. I'll be 32.. By then, I plan on having the body I desire and probably will do it mostly with Push ups. I may join a gym when I can.. But 5 almost 6 months of doing this.. I should be fine.. At that point I'll join a Boxing gym to further my fitness appetite and keep up with it..
Im 73 - I do (including my normal daily 90 minute workout everyday) 100 pushups everyday - 4 sets at 25 reps per set... I feel great - been a gym rat since I was 32.
10 min push ups workout. Max out number. Break into 3. Regular, wide, then diamond push ups, each set you break max number into 3. 30 second rest after each each set. 1 min rest before switching push up stance. I promise you this was the best workout. I was doing 500-1000 a night but this always challenged me, got me bigger. Yes I was in jail
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I've been working out with weights since was 19, always beginning my workouts with 100 pushups to warm up. I continued that regimen for countless years with great results, now at age 72, I continue my workouts, but as i got older i finally eliminated that routine. I recently just wanted to see how many i could still do consecutively and got to fifty. But of course not keeping up with them it became more difficult. Now going 5 days to the gym, twice a week enjoy doing 3 sets of 20 pull-ups instead and love doing them. Regularity has always been the key to staying in shape and keeping my strength up! And Never givee up! Tim
I can remember going to Boot Camp as a 17yr old and struggling to get 25 pushups...now all these years later I can do 50 flat out, but I still do sets of 20 or 25 until 100 just like when I was a kid. It's really been a complement to my training routine over the years and a great way to start the day.
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@@Faerienice men don't need sympathy, your a woman, you wouldn't understand since you women hype your selfs up with scores of 10's everytime, we men are not like that, we are brutal honest, he is weak but I'm proud that he is getting stronger.
One of my biggest regrets with lifting the last 20 years is all the different muscles I have missed in my lifting routines. I appreciate Jeff's encouragement to hit different areas with different variations.
This is the first video where it finally clicked for me with five sets to failure. I always felt terrible i couldnt get to full sets and this has made me realize if i hit that sore mark and stop there, im building up instead of pushing myself to far. Subscribed!
“Stopping 5 shy of failure” glitch: when you can only do 5 pushups in total. You’re basically able to do this daily for the rest of your life. Now that’s a healthy habit. You’re welcome!
It’s not a bad starting place. Hopefully most people doing this will quickly see the benefits and revise their routine to achieve much better results. That’s how it worked for me. About 2 months in I realized how silly just doing one exercise was, but it got me started.
@@ryanbenedetti5387 push ups are the best home workouts keep doing them but if i were you since ur doing 100, I would recommend added other exercises to ur at night workout before going to bed. so like jumping jacks or jump rope so u can make sure your arms aren’t going to get any muscle tensions or future pain to ur arms
@@ryanbenedetti5387 kind of depends what your daily gym routine is, but I would say you’re probably overdoing it. You’ve got to give your body rest days to recuperate inbetween workouts. If you don’t, your really putting yourself at risk of injury.
I'm 3 months into the 100 a day routine, and I'm starting to see a plateau in muscle growth. It was great at first, and it really got me into the disciplined mindset of exercising every day, but I'm ready to add more to my routine. It's funny, I remember people saying this same thing back when I started and I thought "nah I'll just keep doing it forever and it will be okay" but they were totally right. It's a wonderful challenge, but it's only just the beginning of a lifetime of physical aspiration.
He makes a lot of good points, but I would not do one any one particular lifting exercise every day. The only thing I would do every day is stretching exercises. You need to break things up and give your muscles and joints time to rest and recover or you can wind up injured, like getting tendinitis, as the guy above, did.
I am aiming for 5 sets of 20 push ups a day, but with other exercises as well. For the last 6 years I did almost none, but 12 days ago I had to go over a 6 foot wall to help a hurt neighbor, adrenaline got me over fast, but getting back was when I realized that I had lost a lot of my strength. So I am now galvanized to become strong again, in 2 days my weights and protein powder will come and then I will be able to increase the amount of exercises I do. I retired at 63 and am 69 now.
Great advice. I've reduced most my shoulder pain by dividing my reps up like this. When I push myself to the brink, my bad shoulder acts up. Took me years to learn this. I've also reduced most of my back pain by regularly doing superman presses. It took me 8 months to even be able to do 1 without pain following a disc rupture. I had to work on tight and weak hip flexors/psoas for weeks, but the stronger I get the more the pain goes away.
I started doing push-ups maybe 5 times a week when covid hit for the first time and gyms closed in Germany. I barely went back to the gym for almost a year. But was still doing my push-ups. Now that I have been hitting the gym again I can say that I am a stronger bencher than ever before. 1 year of almost daily push-ups made me stronger! Update: in the past 3,4 weeks I started having shoulder pains whenever benching or also doing push-ups. I stopped doing any hurting exercises for 2 weeks (including push-ups) . Now I slowly started ağrın. I'm not doing push ups everyday anymore though (currently twice a week but not as many as before). My shoulder is recovering
@@wojtekostrowski456 No it works in general. Its not like Bodybuilding where its geared toward only specific muscles. Its very functional. Some trend studies are based for people like scientist just so they can get money for a publishing.
Always love and appreciate your videos. You've helped me many times overcoming injuries. I'm 62 years old and pretty fit. But over the summer I was doing my usual P96 routine (pushups, pull ups, bands) - and was trying o increase my reps and weight and frequency. Things were going very well, until one day - they weren't. I suffered either an impingement or slight tear - whatever it was (I've been to the doctor and they say it was't rotator cuff) - it took me OUT! And since then (September of 2023) I have been struggling with getting both shoulders able to return to doing some kind of training. SO FRUSTRATING. All that to say, I was glad to hear you talk in this video about not getting injured as we push forward. This old (though fit) body of mine is reminding me of how I need to be more patient and careful with my routines. So I REALLY appreciated finding this cool little routine of yours (the 100 a day thing was beginning to sound good too me). Thanks AGAIN for a great one. MUCH Appreciated!
My quarantine workout: 4 sets - Roll a section of the legs, Childs pose, 3 down dogs, 4 sets of ab rolls, 30 narrow pushups, 12 pull ups , 12 calf raises per calf, repeat 4 times rolling different sections of the legs each time. Next, the same 4 sets, however 12 chin ups, and 30 wide pushups. Follow this by 300 sit ups on an exercise ball. Got me through quarantine, and I still do this occasionally when I do not feel like going to the gym, BTW I am 65.
I'm 70 and have included push-ups in my daily routine for decades and do them to failure once a week with going close to failure three times a week twice a day . I guess I'm lucky having had 30+ broken bones in my rough and tumble lifetime to have no bad affects from any of them so plan to continue on and do as much as I can for as long as I can .
I get in push-up position like I'm about to do a push-up then get up & flop back down on the couch with a bag of chips while watching TV to confuse the muscle 😎
This is one of the best videos I’ve ever seen. The understanding that you won’t get everyone in the gym right away and found a way to make push-ups (an easy exercise to start) more effective is so helpful and shows your genuine care for your audience
Doing 100 Push-ups a day is what got me started because it was doable and rewarding. I started taking working out seriously way later, I did 100 Push-ups a day for months before and it helped a lot in getting me to a little base strength
Exactly, that's the real benefit. I also had to start very "easy" like this to make the habit stick. If you start "ALL THE WAY" from day one, your mind cant take it and you quit.
Excellent advices I had ever heard from your channel! 1. breaks in sets of n sets of m reps. 2. sets of counter exercises 3. do the m reps shy of 5 from failure *key point! And I would add (for me at least): 4. rest day(s): 1-2 rest days will be more beneficial than every day (for the same exercise) since if I do non-stop every day routine like that, I will eventually hurt myself (I'm not an athlete and I need more time to regen - listen to your body!).
I did roughly 1000 press ups in sets of 50 or 75 and feet on floor and up on chair. I was off gym and did this for approximately 2 weeks and I increased my 1 rep max bench by nearly 20%. My size also increased.
I run 5 km in 30 mins then work in 9 set of 60 each pushups(stretched) for regular 3 days followed by break for 1 day.Pushups took 1 hour for completion.So 90 mins +_ 5 for total exercise.
Well, I never was a active guy, but I recently started to do 3 times per day a set of 25 push ups, 25 crunches and 25 sit ups. So 75 of each in total per day. And honesly - feeling pretty refreshed. Never though that I would hook up onto doing anything at all, but here I do something.
Very interesting combination: challenge+ balance of opposing muscle groups. Since I do pushups in perfect form (chest to ground, full extension of the elbows at the top, engagement of the core) I do way less than I used to do in the past in a single set... But they are so much more productive!!! In my case, achieving quality is a challenge in itself... Thank you for the great content👍
Started doing sets of 20 randomly throughout the day, i do it so often my wrist hurts lmao. Best choice ever seen so much more progress than ever before, the gains are immaculate. Will continue.
i have amll wrists and used to get problems then switched to doing it on knuckles. harder at first but totally comfortable now, even on a hard surface. gets you that little bit lower too. You're better off with push up handles/grips tho
I have a pretty solid chest now same with biceps, crazy seeing a visible amount of muscle where there was virtually nothing a few months ago, been keeping at it!
For a 46 year old who’s smoked ,drank too much with rotator cuff , achielies heel problems an operation for tennis elbow and a physical job the temptation to let my body go was strong . My improvements are slow but they are still a big positive. I have to say these vids are massive for me especially the 10 min core ones .
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Wow, I just stumbled upon this in my feed at random and am I ever grateful, thanks! Haven't really worked out at all since I hurt my back years ago, and this was very encouraging to help ease myself back into any kind of routine (put back on a good chunk of the weight I'd previously lost and it's extremely distressing)
Man, I remember in the Army when I was 15 years younger being able to do 85 pushups in 2 minutes as my average. Now at 37 I can barely do 25 straight due to injuries. I have to get myself together. Good luck to you Brother. Merry Christmas.
@@sobreezy2456 I don't recommend sit-ups honestly. It's a waste of time and ruins your overall posture, so incorprate planks into your routine and you'll see results. And also try to do more time on your planks everyday,
I do the following: Set 1: 20 chair push-ups & 20 normal push-ups Set 2: 15 chair push-ups & 15 normal push-ups Set 3: 12 chair push-ups & 12 normal push-ups Set 4 (3x) 10 chair push-ups & 10 normal push-ups Short breaks between sets (30s to 1min). 150+ push-ups
Little over a month ago, I started a system similar to this to increase my number of quality reps. I've been quite happy with the results of doing 5 sets to sub failure and adding a couple reps to each set at the start of every new week. Its giving me results and that has been great for inspiring me to continue to improve. I was very discouraged with my pushups before.
I’ve been doing 100 burpees a day while also doing back routines to give balance. I suppose I needed to view this video so I can switch it up and avoid any injury. Thanks Jeff!
dude if yu do burpees a lot u gotta watch your back. the more fatigue kicks in the more one tends to slouch on the stomach and back muscles while dripin into a burpee pushup. i slipped a disc (hernia l4:( from doin too many of those sloppy and tired. so less burpees more core strength engaged = better workout. btw burpees are good mainly for heart/rate strength and caloric burn. not strength training.
I’m a push up guy, can’t lie I was kinda biased of clicking this vid just cause of the title but actually seeing the whole thing I totally agree. Awsome vid awsome knowledge. Thank you my guy.
For the past 2 months ive been doing a custom warmup consisting in 3 sets of 40 crunches and 20 push ups. Normally i do 60 push ups in the morning and in the late afternoon i do 40. This improved the overall strenght of my arms and it helped me bench a few more kilos
I arrived early :D When I saw the 100 push-ups, it reminded me of Saitama's challenge. 100 push-ups 100 squats 100 sit-ups and run 10 kilometers every day
During my time of service in the army (mandatory service in my country), i used to do 200 push ups(there was no equipment), 5 days a week, devided to 10 sets of 20 each day, for a long period of time. Even though i gained muscle throughout my whole core and arms, after about a month I started to feel the stress on the shoulders and elbows, making the excercise very hard to perform..
I do 20 first thing in the AM to counter the dawn effect of T2D. Then 10 every two hours throughout the day, then 20 at 5pm. Mostly this is to build discipline and power slowly over time.
Yes do more pushups. I only do push-ups to train my chest and just tested my 1rpm for a clean 255lb. I've never been strong on the bench in the first place I have more aerobic muscle fibers but for only training chest with push ups I'm very satisfied with the 255lbs. Also I'm also 200lbs so yeah again not that impressive but very happy
Dang Jeff, doing a set of Superman Press Outs after every set of Push-ups is now my new 1-2-Punch regimen, wow it feels amazing all the way around my chest, back, shoulders, rhomboids, up into my traps, and down into my lats and obliques. I will soon find out if I should do this before or after my 20-minute abb routing, lol, thank you Sir, great content.
The thing is, most of you (including the TH-camr) are doing too many exercises for each muscle. It doesn’t take that much to stimulate muscle growth, it’s all about consistency. For example, for a chest routine you only need about 4-6 sets as long as you’re keeping your form and the weight is optimal. You’ll go into a gym and see guys doing 20-30 sets of different chest exercises, that’s overkill and at a certain point you’re just plateauing.
Personal tip- I don't go up in sets of five, I increase my amount of reps exponentially using the fibonacci sequence- 1, 1, 2, 3, 5, 8, 13, 21, 34 etc. Really helps me in terms of seeing progress and the fact that the numbers aren't round always leaves me wanting more :)
@@randomstuff2848 I don't go up every day! My god you're right I would die XD nah I did 8 of each exercise repeatedly for multiple days in a row until I could manage 13, then 13 until I could do 21
Out of curiosity what did you put in your backpack? I put a dumbell wrapped in a towel in mine and it was uncomfortable as hell because it slid to the bottom so the weight was resting like on my lower back and digging in.
@@Aatell764 i use a small backpack with disc weights on a book, and the straps tight so it's a comfortable flat weight high up between the shoulder blades
The stabilizer movement at the end of each set is such a great tip. I've been training to failure with pushups and those muscles in my back have been killing me. To the point where I had to take a lot of time off. I've found doing reverse planks has helped alot, and I'll start doing this stabilizer move so it won't happen again.
Interesting. My back muscles haven't been in pain, but I've had two shoulder problems (not connected to push ups), and the main thing that troubles me is my shoulders when I do diamond push ups (that and my hands sometimes slip on the carpet, due to the angle). I do 4 different types of push up.
how long is your pause between sets if you have them? I was doing 5x20 diamond push ups and 10x20 normal ones with a minute pause. It feels pretty easy now and I want to change that
I always liked starting with 5, then 10, then 15, etc everytime I walked through a door. Now, that was in college and the Army so a little different atmospheres However, just the 5 everytime you walk through a doorway drastically increased my volume and ability rather than trying to knock out 250 in an hour or so. Had a Cpt who required 5 pullups everytime you came to see him.
Jeff, I fell into this. I like a challenge. I over did it. Elbows and shoulders did not like it and killed my gains. Thank you for sharing your knowledge!
Not enough trainers and people training consider the possible side effects of exercise until they get injured. Considering we are primarily doing all this to improve our own health and well being it's mandatory to educate yourself. Great vids love your approach. Well done ☺️👍
So true! Been there and had my shoulder damaged. Used to do 100 a day most days and then shoulder gave out. It's been a long journey of yoga and shoulder rehabilitation. Look after yourself people! Thank you for the great content!
@@alexk17 bro, you can do like 200 push ups a day if you wanted and make gains, just make sure to hit your back with something really good like pull ups. a lot of people will call it bs but you’d be amazed by the results
I can attest to the shoulder issue / pain problem with trying to increase push-ups to 100 straight a day. I was following a program to get you to 100 push-ups straight through, but when I hit 40 straight, I started having shoulder pain on one side. Don't know if it was an imbalance or not, but I knew I couldn't continue doing what I was doing. My wife and I have a hill workout we do every Saturday morning, with push-ups at the top and bottom of the hill. We do sets of 15, and by the time we finish the workout, we have usually done 105 push-ups. So, this method Jeff is talking about definitely sounds like something worth trying. I'll be spacing out 5 sets of 20 push-ups throughout the day and see how this works for development as well as ease of completing them.
Back in 2017 I tried this 100 push-ups a day and hell, i just did it for like a half and a week because of the pain in my lower back, i was a very thin teeneger with bad posture and zero previous training. I injured myself.
This is good info. I am currently at the end of month 7 of a push up challenge I created. My daily push-ups equal the day of the month times the month of the year. March 5th equals 15. June tenth equals 60. October 20th equals 200. This has been helping me build up slowly and stay disciplined to do multiple sets every day. I’ve gone from barely being able to do 15 to now keeping my sets above 25 and doing 7 of those sets in a day. I do think I need to be careful about going to failure, which I often do on the last few days of the month. Maybe I should reduce my reps per set but link my sets with less time in between. I also like the idea of doing another exercise while I’m down there already. Thanks for your help and encouragement.
For those that say they still doing 100 a day. It's all good just don't stop. But you should still do some of the other moves. You can look at someone's physic and tell what they can and cannot do no matter what kind of shape they're in. Just don't stop moving and remember everything works together. This dude is full of knowledge.
While it always sounded like a pretty cool feat of strength, I always questioned in the back of my mind the true effectiveness of 100 push-ups a day. If I’m not mistaken, it would seem to invite opportunities for strength and muscle imbalances. I’m glad to hear your thoughts on this topic, Jeff. Very educating.
Damn! So much good free advice from your videos and others! I wish I had TH-cam growing up, when I was the strongest and most fit ever. Life and injury have gotten in the way... AND I'm sure I'm suffering from depression that I cannot seem to get over. Tired to make a little body weight/light weight gym in my garage a few weeks ago now, but cannot get over the feeling of "what's the use?" I'm terribly out of shape and HATE the way I look/feel but cannot snap out of it. When I was in shape people were in awe whenever I took off my shirt but I never understood why because I was never going for that. I just worked out because I like it. I tried some super light workout the other day, but this cause my sciatica to act up and I was in physio/massage for a few days. That was there end of that. I used to work a lot (it was much fun!), so i know how to move properly to not hurt my self, but it would seem that my back is NO GOOD any more. Hopefully I can get that feeling back some day so I can utilize all this to both advice! Thank you
By doing the 100pushups a day my chest looks better than ever my time for 100pushups has decreased a lot, after i finish 30 days i will start doing 200 a day
I do 2 sets of 25 pushups before i get in the shower than 2 more sets of 25 before i go to sleep with is spread out by like 2 hours, i noticed my muscles are starting to get thicker and my pecks have become more defined, im now trying to find exercises for my legs and for my gut, i do 4 sets of 20 sits twisting with each rep but I don’t do them often due to how sore i get
I use to do 300 a day(not all in one go but split the 100’s to morning, evening and night) personally nothing affected my body from lots of push ups and I had big muscles because of it. Stopped doing them because my schedule became too busy in the future
I do 100 pushups a day. It was 150 a day prior to a hernia surgery in April. In previous years i have completed well more than 50,000 pushups a year. I only cut back by 50 a day only to add 100 body squats a day and my normal 100 core a day. I do like the approach laid out in this video. Will begin to incorporate the Superman exercise. Thanks
I really wish more people would discuss the importance of working your back if you do pushups like this. I had no clue and gave myself a month of bad posture and back pain. My pushups were looking pretty good though
Well now I know why my posture has gone to hell. At one point I was doing a minimum of 300 a day but never took care of my rhomboids. You're doing God's work brother thank you!
I have a really mixed opinion about the whole hundred push-ups a day thing. I actually forced myself to do that with a weird routine for an entire year. Since I was going from zero workout in history I started off light at 30 and then I would do 30 everyday for the month and then the next month I would add on another 10. I started January of that year with 30 a day, and October 1st all the way through the new year I did 100 push-ups a day. It definitely absolutely trimmed out my shoulders and my arms and I got a ton of compliments for them, but I absolutely noticed that it really honestly just gave me good strength and definition but it did not bulk me up at all. I'm pretty sure that Annie and all of the calisthetic workouts you do can give you good actual muscular strength, but other than that all it really does is trim down your body fat and give you the definition that makes it all look good whereas when you actually get into the weight lifting that's where you actually get that strain and everything starts getting puffy and you start seeing the Mr Olympia type of people.
@@JosGNG187 what? I use many sources of information for my lifting/workout/athletic lifestyle and Jeff always has constructive ideas to help me with very specific things.
I like to switch to working my abs while my arms recover but I like the recovery exercise you shared. I’ve gotten so much stronger without weights just body weight exercises!
Nice addition to do the superman press-out (20x) after each set of push-ups. Adds to range of muscle groups being trained without making it too complex to stick to (the biggest attraction of the '100 push-ups per day' regime is its simplicity - and anything is better than doing nothing).
I use to do 1000 pushups a day and I received great results and had no problems with my tendons. But weight training everyday was where I experienced problems.
@@jdklein033 everything is mental I couldn’t do a single push-up 4 months ago when I started training but with the ability to push trough the pain I do usually like 600 a day now and that’s not my only workout
I've never believed that cranking out 100 pushups in one go is beneficial. I actually spread them out through-out the day. Sometimes I'll do 20 3 times a day. Sometimes I'll do sets to failure. You're completely right when you say that doing 100 pushups in one go means pushups are too easy for you.
I always do 100 push-ups, 100 sit-ups, 100 squats and a 10 km run daily. Other than the hair loss and the inability to kill mosquitos, I'm doing pretty fine.
I do strict pushups and pullups 3x per week on Tu/Th/Sun. This allows me enough volume/frequency to progress and decent recovery. I also run stairs 3x per week and walk 15-20K steps daily. Covid eliminating gyms and lifting the past few years really made me switch mindsets of mastering my bodyweight and going back to basics. Truthfully I don't really miss lifting and feel better.
What Jeff is telling here is about volume, instead of limiting to 100 push ups a day, break it into 5 sessions, do push ups each session until failure. That way you'll max out your exercise to the fullest at the same time doing more reps even exceeding 100 per day. Finish up each session with the compliment superman exercise for the rhomboids.
its not all about gains Jeff, not every guy is a bodybuilder. We are athletes. Muscle endurance is important. At the start doing 100 pushups a day gave me so much strenght for pullups dips and compound movements, got so much newbie gains and strenght.
As a man weighing over 200lbs I was unable to completely do a knee push up. Started with 10 pushups a day did till I reached 30 gradually then one day pushed myself to 60 and now doing it 100 a day (30 full pushups and 70 knee push ups) it's been 20 days now and I have seen difference
What a coincidence, I've just started doing trying to do 20 pushups every time I get up to go to the restroom for about 2 weeks now. I've noticed significant gains, and that I drink way too much coffee... I average 100 in a day. Ill have to try adding the superman lifts. Great advice as always.
I just started doing your Pull Push Legs routine 2 weeks ago. I used to workout (not train) a lot and had it in my head that I need to do 6 days in a row with only one day off. Now that I'm in my 30's and currently fat, I have to admit I appreciate having the day off for conditioning cardio every 4th day. I think my body and my heart apreciate it too. 🤘🏼🤘🏼
I found the biggest issue with push ups was damage to my back. Since when I started to slouch, I'd keep going.. Then day after day my back was stiff to a point where it hurt.. Now I do a variety of standing weights + stretches and my back is getting better.
That's how I've been doing every exercise I do. It started out as laziness counting my reps. Then I realized I can get awesome pumps just going till I can push another rep out. And was this is the way to go! I was building faster with less exercises. I've been doing this kind of work out for since the mid nineties.
Yeah I don't get it why some people train only pushing muscles... you have also pulling muscles. Overall training almost anything "every day" is stupid, you are supposed to recover 48h and use a split. 2-way split at minimal, unless you're complete beginner, then you can get away with no split. But then you shouldn't train every day. Training the same muscle every day is so goddamn stupid (for other than maybe abs), just destroy the muscle, rest 48 hours, that's the best way for growth. Also best way to not get injured
I literally did this and completed so many variations of push ups during the 30 days. Increased my bench, weight loss and physically looked more toned.
I'm up to 300 pushups a Day over the last 8 weeks. Barely was able to do 10 without giving up Then I got to 10 over 5 reps a day. then 20 and 5 reps then 30 over 10 reps Now this last week I did 50 over 6 reps Just added situps and looking to push myself. I'll add this to my workout thanks.
Been doing pushups for 20+ years. At some point i was making 250 in 5 sets per day. It kills your shoulder joints. Now i make 48 in 4 sets and not raising all the way up(to protect shoulders), while going very slow down. Also mixed in some other exercises, the difference in muscle is very visible. I went from 65 to 73 kg with this change in pushups and it's mostly muscle
@@powerup9035 that you didn’t add 8kg of muscle because you switched push up variation. I mean that’s pretty obvious. Props for gaining 8kg of muscle, but I don’t think you’re giving yourself credit if you think that came from a difference in push ups 😂
Great advice seriously,I ripped my shoulder cuff in martial arts so it’s been a slow process on the road to recovery so this video really helps . Big thumbs up and thank you 🙏🏼.
Twenty years ago I ripped my shoulder while replacing the weight on an incline bench. Years later I thought it would never heal completely. But reading this comment, it's the first time in my life I realized I haven't had trouble with it at all recently.
Thank you Jeff. This is the video I was hoping you would make in response to the 100 push up challenge videos. Well done. It takes daily effort to protect our shoulders and prevent ourselves from creating structural imbalances.
This is exactly what i do to increase my potential in the amount of pushups i can accomplish. You do this the way he describes it and it will boost your overall outcome if you were to rest a day or two after some good amount of time training your arms. With that said, Ive been able to pump out 82 push ups in a minute by doing it this way and I was 35 yrs old at the time. I just didnt implement his superman variation he does in the end. A good tip also, is to do deep push ups (go down lower than normal) to compliment the regular push up, keep in mind this works the triceps more, but it ensures you are getting that full rep you should be looking for rather than doing half (noodle looking) push up motions. I would do 5 or even 6 sets throughout the day to accomplish this goal woth about two sets back to back and would hoose either the day or night to hit my reps put which helps with some rest needed to help you keep going. I would go to failure, but same time not completely burn out my arms since i wanted energy to do my next set i wanted to do as well. But ya, this method works for sure.
I currently do 5 Sets / 50 Reps / 2.5 mins between sets / 3 days (750 push-ups) a week! I could probably do more or increase my level of difficulty, but i think i’m good…for now…for a 58yr old man!
Want to see how the pushup stacks up against other chest exercises? In this video, I rank the best and worst chest exercises you can do => th-cam.com/video/ykQlXirszbo/w-d-xo.html
First LMAO 2 weeks later
Edit: can u tell me like why I shouldn’t do it but just in a short breif explanation thx)
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Excellent video
You've obviously never witnessed a prison environment... sometimes relative theories don't imply to reality and what CAN be done. No disrespect. Just open mind
Thank you I really needed a back exercise like the superman pressout
"stop doing 100 pushups a day"
Never started, way ahead of you dude
Ah yes... Finally a worthy opponent for me
better idea. thanks i think ill stop now
Lol
Bahaha
They say hard work never hurt anyone, I’m not going to find out if it’s true.
I always do 101 because my enemy was most likely doing 100
I do 1000 a day now go harder jocko
You need mushrooms man. A good solid mushroom trip would do you right. No one is out to get you… relax. And stop making enemies we are all sharing this strange existence together.
@@shasmi93 you shouldn’t relax. You should always push the end line further and become better and stronger
@@707josh I feel like there is a balance. Going extreme either direction is almost never the answer.
@@Hamburgers4Haiti disciplining yourself is the answer and living a life you can be proud of. That’s true riches
As a man that ended up getting shoulder tendonitis because of the excessive volume and not training the minor muscles all I have to say it that Jeff is saving lives with videos like these
use to do that with weights after, and i did have shoulder problems
How did you recover from tendonitis
I had the same experience. I wasn’t training counter muscles like my back muscles and sitting all day at a computer. My arms were going numb every night, and the only solution was going to physical therapy and working on back muscles.
Because you didnt do face pulls ☝️
@@27Ashishnayak To clarify I also kickbox competitively. Together with my obsession with pushups( I love them because you can make them hard, do a lot of them and they are very useful to build discipline) I developed tendonitis in my left shoulder likely from all the repetitive movement. I have been out for like 2.5 months already but I'm getting close to a return. I have gotten plenty of massages, electric current therapy and ultrasounds(both really helpful) and have also gotten 2 plasma injections (game changers). Shoulders were always my strongest upper body part so I really missed my favourite exercises( handstands, presses etc) during rehab. Instead every day is a combination of leg workouts and corrective movements for my shoulders and upper back. I only wish I started doing those sooner. I was so focused on getting stronger that I got some muscles way stronger than others that are supposed to be working together. This imbalance led to the tendon getting involved more than it should. Learn from my mistake and do your corrective exercises before you get hurt. Also don't push your newfound strength too much, rather let the rest of your body catch up. It's easier to reach your fitness goals if you are healthy
Do them every other day. This allows for recovery
You'll be fine. Just saved you 5+ minutes.
Savior
I've been doing this for a week.. Breaking it up.. I'll do them for 2 days, break for a day and then do another day, break and go 2 days ect. A week and a half and I already can see small results.. Which is pushing me to get fully into this.. My brithday is in May.. I'll be 32.. By then, I plan on having the body I desire and probably will do it mostly with Push ups. I may join a gym when I can.. But 5 almost 6 months of doing this.. I should be fine.. At that point I'll join a Boxing gym to further my fitness appetite and keep up with it..
That's not what he said though so no you didn't save anyone 5 minutes.
@@IzakD8 How much time did you save replying to me?
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Im 73 - I do (including my normal daily 90 minute workout everyday) 100 pushups everyday - 4 sets at 25 reps per set... I feel great - been a gym rat since I was 32.
Nice
And a " dont fix it if its not broken" well done Chris keep up the great old school method
Awesome man, well done keep up the good work. I´m starting late myself at around 40 and I hope I will keep on doing it until I die.
Hell yea. Stay blessed sir!
very good
10 min push ups workout. Max out number. Break into 3. Regular, wide, then diamond push ups, each set you break max number into 3. 30 second rest after each each set. 1 min rest before switching push up stance. I promise you this was the best workout. I was doing 500-1000 a night but this always challenged me, got me bigger. Yes I was in jail
Screenshotted ima take your word over a youtuber no cap 💯
Calisthenics is the way fuck weights
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i dont understand can somone pls explain 😅
Who asked if u was in jail brody 🤣🤣 no disrespect or hate but like cmon u could’ve said that between sentences
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I've been working out with weights since was 19, always beginning my workouts with 100 pushups to warm up. I continued that regimen for countless years with great results, now at age 72, I continue my workouts, but as i got older i finally eliminated that routine. I recently just wanted to see how many i could still do consecutively and got to fifty. But of course not keeping up with them it became more difficult.
Now going 5 days to the gym, twice a week enjoy doing 3 sets of 20 pull-ups instead and love doing them. Regularity has always been the key to staying in shape and keeping my strength up! And Never givee up! Tim
You are an inspirational badass.
I can remember going to Boot Camp as a 17yr old and struggling to get 25 pushups...now all these years later I can do 50 flat out, but I still do sets of 20 or 25 until 100 just like when I was a kid. It's really been a complement to my training routine over the years and a great way to start the day.
When I was 17 and joined the military. For whatever reason, I can do pushups all day.
Same here…. I start my day with doing 4-5 sets a day and feel great with no problems.
I always preferred to sets like that, between 20-25 reps. Like 3-4 sets, helped much more!
I joined at 19 and got in a lot of trouble. I think the most I did in one instance was 100. I always maxed my pushups on the APFT.
@@coldchillin8382 me too.. I could max out 82 push-ups In my sleep. I can still do it now. 20 yrs later
this routine (100 push-ups a day) took me from barely 10 sloppy push-ups to 22 good form shoulder width push-ups in 15days
weak, but I respect that your training to improve ur strenght, keep going and don't stop
@@franciscopereira5760 the real weak beta male is someone who comments “weak male” under another man’s progress. Not attractive nor intelligent looking
@@Faerienice men don't need sympathy, your a woman, you wouldn't understand since you women hype your selfs up with scores of 10's everytime, we men are not like that, we are brutal honest, he is weak but I'm proud that he is getting stronger.
@@franciscopereira5760 this nigga has a John Wick profile picture
@@franciscopereira5760 nah, nah, you just insecure
One of my biggest regrets with lifting the last 20 years is all the different muscles I have missed in my lifting routines. I appreciate Jeff's encouragement to hit different areas with different variations.
what muscles exactly
@@gsm6808 Calves and Forearms probably
@@gsm6808 muscles u didn’t even know u had
@@gsm6808back muscles
This is the first video where it finally clicked for me with five sets to failure. I always felt terrible i couldnt get to full sets and this has made me realize if i hit that sore mark and stop there, im building up instead of pushing myself to far. Subscribed!
me too
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“Stopping 5 shy of failure” glitch: when you can only do 5 pushups in total. You’re basically able to do this daily for the rest of your life. Now that’s a healthy habit. You’re welcome!
Lmao
That’s sad
It’s not a bad starting place. Hopefully most people doing this will quickly see the benefits and revise their routine to achieve much better results.
That’s how it worked for me. About 2 months in I realized how silly just doing one exercise was, but it got me started.
Aye man I go to the gym everyday and then every night I do 100 push-ups before I go to bed do u think this is okay
@@ryanbenedetti5387 push ups are the best home workouts keep doing them but if i were you since ur doing 100, I would recommend added other exercises to ur at night workout before going to bed. so like jumping jacks or jump rope so u can make sure your arms aren’t going to get any muscle tensions or future pain to ur arms
@@ryanbenedetti5387 kind of depends what your daily gym routine is, but I would say you’re probably overdoing it. You’ve got to give your body rest days to recuperate inbetween workouts. If you don’t, your really putting yourself at risk of injury.
@@ryanbenedetti5387 nah
I'm 3 months into the 100 a day routine, and I'm starting to see a plateau in muscle growth. It was great at first, and it really got me into the disciplined mindset of exercising every day, but I'm ready to add more to my routine.
It's funny, I remember people saying this same thing back when I started and I thought "nah I'll just keep doing it forever and it will be okay" but they were totally right. It's a wonderful challenge, but it's only just the beginning of a lifetime of physical aspiration.
I really like how this guy gets right to the point. Somebody else would have made this video half an hour.
is 100 push ups a day with rest days and srteching good
@@Damso15 yes, I love it
5 minutes still feels too long... one guy here in the comments summarized the video as "just do them every other day". Good summary?
@@n1te That was a shitty summary. The guy in the video said much more than that and was very specific and to the point.
He makes a lot of good points, but I would not do one any one particular lifting exercise every day. The only thing I would do every day is stretching exercises. You need to break things up and give your muscles and joints time to rest and recover or you can wind up injured, like getting tendinitis, as the guy above, did.
I am aiming for 5 sets of 20 push ups a day, but with other exercises as well. For the last 6 years I did almost none, but 12 days ago I had to go over a 6 foot wall to help a hurt neighbor, adrenaline got me over fast, but getting back was when I realized that I had lost a lot of my strength. So I am now galvanized to become strong again, in 2 days my weights and protein powder will come and then I will be able to increase the amount of exercises I do. I retired at 63 and am 69 now.
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Great advice. I've reduced most my shoulder pain by dividing my reps up like this. When I push myself to the brink, my bad shoulder acts up. Took me years to learn this. I've also reduced most of my back pain by regularly doing superman presses. It took me 8 months to even be able to do 1 without pain following a disc rupture. I had to work on tight and weak hip flexors/psoas for weeks, but the stronger I get the more the pain goes away.
I agree, time under tension and making the push-ups harder is a lot better
Give me one reason to take fitness advice from a celeste fan
@@VidNibs Didn't work = lack of consistency and effort.
@@stripo9650 cuz Celeste is an amazing game
I started doing push-ups maybe 5 times a week when covid hit for the first time and gyms closed in Germany. I barely went back to the gym for almost a year. But was still doing my push-ups. Now that I have been hitting the gym again I can say that I am a stronger bencher than ever before. 1 year of almost daily push-ups made me stronger!
Update: in the past 3,4 weeks I started having shoulder pains whenever benching or also doing push-ups. I stopped doing any hurting exercises for 2 weeks (including push-ups) . Now I slowly started ağrın. I'm not doing push ups everyday anymore though (currently twice a week but not as many as before). My shoulder is recovering
yo when the gyms were closed in my country those times were so depressing bruh
*made you stronger in one specific exercise
How many reps and sets you were doing everyday? What's your current bench press weight?
@@wojtekostrowski456 No it works in general. Its not like Bodybuilding where its geared toward only specific muscles. Its very functional. Some trend studies are based for people like scientist just so they can get money for a publishing.
@@wojtekostrowski456 his upper body became stronger... that shit applies to real life too, not like he's pro bb who only lifts sleeps and competes.
Always love and appreciate your videos. You've helped me many times overcoming injuries. I'm 62 years old and pretty fit. But over the summer I was doing my usual P96 routine (pushups, pull ups, bands) - and was trying o increase my reps and weight and frequency. Things were going very well, until one day - they weren't. I suffered either an impingement or slight tear - whatever it was (I've been to the doctor and they say it was't rotator cuff) - it took me OUT! And since then (September of 2023) I have been struggling with getting both shoulders able to return to doing some kind of training. SO FRUSTRATING. All that to say, I was glad to hear you talk in this video about not getting injured as we push forward. This old (though fit) body of mine is reminding me of how I need to be more patient and careful with my routines. So I REALLY appreciated finding this cool little routine of yours (the 100 a day thing was beginning to sound good too me). Thanks AGAIN for a great one. MUCH Appreciated!
My quarantine workout: 4 sets - Roll a section of the legs, Childs pose, 3 down dogs, 4 sets of ab rolls, 30 narrow pushups, 12 pull ups , 12 calf raises per calf, repeat 4 times rolling different sections of the legs each time. Next, the same 4 sets, however 12 chin ups, and 30 wide pushups. Follow this by 300 sit ups on an exercise ball. Got me through quarantine, and I still do this occasionally when I do not feel like going to the gym, BTW I am 65.
Ok so the point about that u want to say is u are 65years old
@@iornog3273 ye
Quarantine workout? I'm so lucky desantis is the gov.
@Tim Cooper 😂🤣
@@iornog3273 if you edit a comment edit it correctly.
This was honestly very insightful
none asked :)
@@cosmo8210 You didn't even do the joke correctly. Also, no one asked for you to comment.
100 pushups a day is killing your gains!
[El Jefe De Cavalier]
@@cosmo8210 none asked you to comment :)
@@cosmo8210 No one asked you to comment. :)
I'm 70 and have included push-ups in my daily routine for decades and do them to failure once a week with going close to failure three times a week twice a day . I guess I'm lucky having had 30+ broken bones in my rough and tumble lifetime to have no bad affects from any of them so plan to continue on and do as much as I can for as long as I can .
Is someone abusing you Guy?
How u break 30 bones
@@salahuddin9105 It's less than a broken bone every two years. Couple of bigger accidents and it's realistically much less
You Go Guy !
Straight up! Stay focused 💯
This routine built my chest from 38" to 44" in one year.
Doing 100 push ups a day?
😳 💪🏼
I get in push-up position like I'm about to do a push-up then get up & flop back down on the couch with a bag of chips while watching TV to confuse the muscle 😎
@@504Trey😂
@@504Trey😂😂lmao
This is one of the best videos I’ve ever seen. The understanding that you won’t get everyone in the gym right away and found a way to make push-ups (an easy exercise to start) more effective is so helpful and shows your genuine care for your audience
Doing 100 Push-ups a day is what got me started because it was doable and rewarding. I started taking working out seriously way later, I did 100 Push-ups a day for months before and it helped a lot in getting me to a little base strength
Exactly, that's the real benefit. I also had to start very "easy" like this to make the habit stick. If you start "ALL THE WAY" from day one, your mind cant take it and you quit.
Starting with pulling exercises too would be better
100 reps in 1 set ?? Or more sets
@@NekrosWorld if i were to do it, i'd do 20 reps in 5 sets, 3 in the morning 2 in the evenening
Working my way to 200 5 times a week. At 150-75 transition. Just crank out 20-25 reps a set. If I need less I do it. Split morning/evening.
Excellent advices I had ever heard from your channel!
1. breaks in sets of n sets of m reps.
2. sets of counter exercises
3. do the m reps shy of 5 from failure *key point!
And I would add (for me at least):
4. rest day(s): 1-2 rest days will be more beneficial than every day (for the same exercise) since if I do non-stop every day routine like that, I will eventually hurt myself (I'm not an athlete and I need more time to regen - listen to your body!).
Should I do 100 pushups per day or not
I did roughly 1000 press ups in sets of 50 or 75 and feet on floor and up on chair. I was off gym and did this for approximately 2 weeks and I increased my 1 rep max bench by nearly 20%. My size also increased.
Do you rest your pushups for every other day to recuperate or just do them daily with increases everyday??
@@kenmichaelson1047 not really. I just went hard everyday.
I run 5 km in 30 mins then work in 9 set of 60 each pushups(stretched) for regular 3 days followed by break for 1 day.Pushups took 1 hour for completion.So 90 mins +_ 5 for total exercise.
You give 1000 push ups in 50 times, you mean that?
Genetics is everything . That's what he doesn't tell y'all
Well, I never was a active guy, but I recently started to do 3 times per day a set of 25 push ups, 25 crunches and 25 sit ups. So 75 of each in total per day. And honesly - feeling pretty refreshed. Never though that I would hook up onto doing anything at all, but here I do something.
Good for you man. Proud of ya. Let's get it ✨
Keep it up buddy
Well done 👍🏼
How is it working?
@@tofferooni4972 Well, I still do it. Increased to 30 now. Became easier to bring heavy bags from shops :)
Very interesting combination: challenge+ balance of opposing muscle groups. Since I do pushups in perfect form (chest to ground, full extension of the elbows at the top, engagement of the core) I do way less than I used to do in the past in a single set... But they are so much more productive!!! In my case, achieving quality is a challenge in itself... Thank you for the great content👍
I think the point of 100 push-ups a day is to give people who don’t like working out a feasible goal.
Yeah there’s so many better ways to build muscle or strength but this is a good goal in developing consistency for newbies
Started doing sets of 20 randomly throughout the day, i do it so often my wrist hurts lmao. Best choice ever seen so much more progress than ever before, the gains are immaculate. Will continue.
Add 1 push up per rep everyday for a month , soon enough you’ll be doing 50 per rep
@@JuniorCYT thanks for the advice, ill try this.
i have amll wrists and used to get problems then switched to doing it on knuckles. harder at first but totally comfortable now, even on a hard surface. gets you that little bit lower too. You're better off with push up handles/grips tho
@@ReedNOFX I use push up bars.
I have a pretty solid chest now same with biceps, crazy seeing a visible amount of muscle where there was virtually nothing a few months ago, been keeping at it!
For a 46 year old who’s smoked ,drank too much with rotator cuff , achielies heel problems an operation for tennis elbow and a physical job the temptation to let my body go was strong .
My improvements are slow but they are still a big positive. I have to say these vids are massive for me especially the 10 min core ones .
@@-nath-7837 Wtf bro, have u never drank too much with your rotator cuff?
I thought it was common
@@nr1NPC for real, gotta use that rotator cuff to lift the bottle.
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@@k...5853 spelling error I meant rotator cup
@@jim526 no it’s cuff lol
Wow, I just stumbled upon this in my feed at random and am I ever grateful, thanks!
Haven't really worked out at all since I hurt my back years ago, and this was very encouraging to help ease myself back into any kind of routine (put back on a good chunk of the weight I'd previously lost and it's extremely distressing)
Man, I remember in the Army when I was 15 years younger being able to do 85 pushups in 2 minutes as my average. Now at 37 I can barely do 25 straight due to injuries. I have to get myself together. Good luck to you Brother. Merry Christmas.
Man I hope things get better
@@thetraveler1182 you get better results when you do them slow anyway.
25 push ups and sit ups , 4 sets every day and night. It’s getting a lot easier and You can really see it in the chest after a few weeks.
I heard sit ups are bad to do. Is your back okay doing this constantly?
@@sobreezy2456 I don't recommend sit-ups honestly. It's a waste of time and ruins your overall posture, so incorprate planks into your routine and you'll see results. And also try to do more time on your planks everyday,
@@sobreezy2456^^^
I do the following:
Set 1: 20 chair push-ups & 20 normal push-ups
Set 2: 15 chair push-ups & 15 normal push-ups
Set 3: 12 chair push-ups & 12 normal push-ups
Set 4 (3x) 10 chair push-ups & 10 normal push-ups
Short breaks between sets (30s to 1min). 150+ push-ups
Little over a month ago, I started a system similar to this to increase my number of quality reps. I've been quite happy with the results of doing 5 sets to sub failure and adding a couple reps to each set at the start of every new week. Its giving me results and that has been great for inspiring me to continue to improve. I was very discouraged with my pushups before.
Used to watch him in my childhood (somewhere around 2013-2014 I think) and am happy to see that he is still going strong in 2021
I’ve been doing 100 burpees a day while also doing back routines to give balance. I suppose I needed to view this video so I can switch it up and avoid any injury. Thanks Jeff!
Na you were already doing it right
@@jsoliz1806 Now if he goes back to doing 100 burpees, he will most likely injure himself subconsciously or the nocebo effect
dude if yu do burpees a lot u gotta watch your back. the more fatigue kicks in the more one tends to slouch on the stomach and back muscles while dripin into a burpee pushup. i slipped a disc (hernia l4:( from doin too many of those sloppy and tired. so less burpees more core strength engaged = better workout. btw burpees are good mainly for heart/rate strength and caloric burn. not strength training.
@@marcochaiwallah811 Burpee…It’s BURPEE
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.. i dipnt notice my typo ... purpee pushups spunds hilaripus 😂😂😂
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I’m a push up guy, can’t lie I was kinda biased of clicking this vid just cause of the title but actually seeing the whole thing I totally agree. Awsome vid awsome knowledge. Thank you my guy.
For the past 2 months ive been doing a custom warmup consisting in 3 sets of 40 crunches and 20 push ups. Normally i do 60 push ups in the morning and in the late afternoon i do 40. This improved the overall strenght of my arms and it helped me bench a few more kilos
Same but I only do pushups
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I arrived early :D
When I saw the 100 push-ups, it reminded me of Saitama's challenge. 100 push-ups 100 squats 100 sit-ups and run 10 kilometers every day
During my time of service in the army (mandatory service in my country), i used to do 200 push ups(there was no equipment), 5 days a week, devided to 10 sets of 20 each day, for a long period of time. Even though i gained muscle throughout my whole core and arms, after about a month I started to feel the stress on the shoulders and elbows, making the excercise very hard to perform..
Things like this or running in boots would seem to catch up to us as we get older.
I do 20 first thing in the AM to counter the dawn effect of T2D. Then 10 every two hours throughout the day, then 20 at 5pm. Mostly this is to build discipline and power slowly over time.
Exactly
T2D?
@@LifterOfWeights Type 2 Diabetes
@@LifterOfWeights type 2 diabetes
Can someone talk about how doing workouts in the Am counters T2D? Very interesting
Yes do more pushups. I only do push-ups to train my chest and just tested my 1rpm for a clean 255lb. I've never been strong on the bench in the first place I have more aerobic muscle fibers but for only training chest with push ups I'm very satisfied with the 255lbs.
Also I'm also 200lbs so yeah again not that impressive but very happy
Fuck that. Be proud. You’re doing better that a lot people. Keep up the good work.
only basic push ups or also other harder variations
Its good bro chill
Be proud bro! I’m not quite there yet, but trying to get there
As long as you can do your weight it's always impressive bro, majority of normal people can't do there body weight
Dang Jeff, doing a set of Superman Press Outs after every set of Push-ups is now my new 1-2-Punch regimen, wow it feels amazing all the way around my chest, back, shoulders, rhomboids, up into my traps, and down into my lats and obliques. I will soon find out if I should do this before or after my 20-minute abb routing, lol, thank you Sir, great content.
I need to start incorporating the Superman Press after each set!
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The thing is, most of you (including the TH-camr) are doing too many exercises for each muscle. It doesn’t take that much to stimulate muscle growth, it’s all about consistency. For example, for a chest routine you only need about 4-6 sets as long as you’re keeping your form and the weight is optimal. You’ll go into a gym and see guys doing 20-30 sets of different chest exercises, that’s overkill and at a certain point you’re just plateauing.
Should be in and out of the gym (or wherever you exercise) in an hour, unless you’re incorporating a class or something.
Personal tip- I don't go up in sets of five, I increase my amount of reps exponentially using the fibonacci sequence- 1, 1, 2, 3, 5, 8, 13, 21, 34 etc.
Really helps me in terms of seeing progress and the fact that the numbers aren't round always leaves me wanting more :)
Haha I love that, the fibonacci sequence ha! I'll definitely try that.
He’s lying
@@Dadaadad268 i'm not dude, it's honestly great! i recommend trying it :)
Bro by day 20 you will actually fucking die
@@randomstuff2848 I don't go up every day! My god you're right I would die XD nah I did 8 of each exercise repeatedly for multiple days in a row until I could manage 13, then 13 until I could do 21
I used to do 30-40 every 2 hours with a 30lb backpack on. One day I dropped the back pack and felt like a feather
Out of curiosity what did you put in your backpack? I put a dumbell wrapped in a towel in mine and it was uncomfortable as hell because it slid to the bottom so the weight was resting like on my lower back and digging in.
@@Aatell764 i use a small backpack with disc weights on a book, and the straps tight so it's a comfortable flat weight high up between the shoulder blades
@@stratfol1 Oh nice I'll definitely try the book idea, I actually got a couple squares of plywood about the size of a book I'll try that out.
I WANNA USE A VEST :(
@@OGecalien I'm sorry what
The stabilizer movement at the end of each set is such a great tip. I've been training to failure with pushups and those muscles in my back have been killing me. To the point where I had to take a lot of time off. I've found doing reverse planks has helped alot, and I'll start doing this stabilizer move so it won't happen again.
Interesting. My back muscles haven't been in pain, but I've had two shoulder problems (not connected to push ups), and the main thing that troubles me is my shoulders when I do diamond push ups (that and my hands sometimes slip on the carpet, due to the angle).
I do 4 different types of push up.
Yes and no a pushup should also activate tbe stabilizers a lot, ulike something done on a bench.
how long is your pause between sets if you have them? I was doing 5x20 diamond push ups and 10x20 normal ones with a minute pause. It feels pretty easy now and I want to change that
@@aleksastankovic4808 A minute?
Maybe when I was young, but I'm in my 50s, so I leave 3 - 4 minutes in between.
@@aleksastankovic4808 Then again, I do more in a set.
I always liked starting with 5, then 10, then 15, etc everytime I walked through a door. Now, that was in college and the Army so a little different atmospheres
However, just the 5 everytime you walk through a doorway drastically increased my volume and ability rather than trying to knock out 250 in an hour or so. Had a Cpt who required 5 pullups everytime you came to see him.
Jeff, I fell into this. I like a challenge. I over did it. Elbows and shoulders did not like it and killed my gains. Thank you for sharing your knowledge!
Rip your gains
bro same, wish i saw this video earlier and had a perfect push up form from the start
Same
Not enough trainers and people training consider the possible side effects of exercise until they get injured. Considering we are primarily doing all this to improve our own health and well being it's mandatory to educate yourself. Great vids love your approach. Well done ☺️👍
So true! Been there and had my shoulder damaged. Used to do 100 a day most days and then shoulder gave out. It's been a long journey of yoga and shoulder rehabilitation. Look after yourself people! Thank you for the great content!
So is like 5 sets of 15 pushups good through out the day I’m 16 yrs old:)?
@@alexk17 bro, you can do like 200 push ups a day if you wanted and make gains, just make sure to hit your back with something really good like pull ups. a lot of people will call it bs but you’d be amazed by the results
In the past I was doing 10 sets of 100 pushups I felt the best ever compared to now. Time to hit the time machine 💪🏾🏆🙏🏾
I can attest to the shoulder issue / pain problem with trying to increase push-ups to 100 straight a day. I was following a program to get you to 100 push-ups straight through, but when I hit 40 straight, I started having shoulder pain on one side. Don't know if it was an imbalance or not, but I knew I couldn't continue doing what I was doing.
My wife and I have a hill workout we do every Saturday morning, with push-ups at the top and bottom of the hill. We do sets of 15, and by the time we finish the workout, we have usually done 105 push-ups.
So, this method Jeff is talking about definitely sounds like something worth trying. I'll be spacing out 5 sets of 20 push-ups throughout the day and see how this works for development as well as ease of completing them.
Do warmup lol
Back in 2017 I tried this 100 push-ups a day and hell, i just did it for like a half and a week because of the pain in my lower back, i was a very thin teeneger with bad posture and zero previous training. I injured myself.
You needed to do pull ups to correct that issue
If you want to get shredded just by pushups, you need to do 500-1000 a day and that means 100 rep sets at least.
@@quirinm. is that for beginners or is that for out of shape people ?
Hollywood: Don't look up!
Jeff: Here's why looking up is killing your gains!
This is good info. I am currently at the end of month 7 of a push up challenge I created. My daily push-ups equal the day of the month times the month of the year. March 5th equals 15. June tenth equals 60. October 20th equals 200. This has been helping me build up slowly and stay disciplined to do multiple sets every day. I’ve gone from barely being able to do 15 to now keeping my sets above 25 and doing 7 of those sets in a day.
I do think I need to be careful about going to failure, which I often do on the last few days of the month. Maybe I should reduce my reps per set but link my sets with less time in between. I also like the idea of doing another exercise while I’m down there already. Thanks for your help and encouragement.
So from Christmas to NYE...?
Nice challenge!
For those that say they still doing 100 a day. It's all good just don't stop. But you should still do some of the other moves. You can look at someone's physic and tell what they can and cannot do no matter what kind of shape they're in. Just don't stop moving and remember everything works together. This dude is full of knowledge.
Makes sense. I just started doing this and now i feel ive gain strength. And doing some shoulder workout right after
While it always sounded like a pretty cool feat of strength, I always questioned in the back of my mind the true effectiveness of 100 push-ups a day. If I’m not mistaken, it would seem to invite opportunities for strength and muscle imbalances. I’m glad to hear your thoughts on this topic, Jeff. Very educating.
For each smile Jeff makes on a day he also makes one crying face to avoid facial muscles imbalances
Damn! So much good free advice from your videos and others! I wish I had TH-cam growing up, when I was the strongest and most fit ever. Life and injury have gotten in the way... AND I'm sure I'm suffering from depression that I cannot seem to get over. Tired to make a little body weight/light weight gym in my garage a few weeks ago now, but cannot get over the feeling of "what's the use?"
I'm terribly out of shape and HATE the way I look/feel but cannot snap out of it. When I was in shape people were in awe whenever I took off my shirt but I never understood why because I was never going for that. I just worked out because I like it. I tried some super light workout the other day, but this cause my sciatica to act up and I was in physio/massage for a few days. That was there end of that. I used to work a lot (it was much fun!), so i know how to move properly to not hurt my self, but it would seem that my back is NO GOOD any more.
Hopefully I can get that feeling back some day so I can utilize all this to both advice! Thank you
By doing the 100pushups a day my chest looks better than ever my time for 100pushups has decreased a lot, after i finish 30 days i will start doing 200 a day
I do 100 in the morning and 100 before bed everyday
@@jaycebronx2608 do you do only push ups bro or you go to gym? and does it make your body look better? i do 50 a day lol XD
@@pastalino6786 I work out at home with my dumbbells and e z bar gyms be to pack nowadays
@@pastalino6786 lol you got to do more then that to see results
I do 2 sets of 25 pushups before i get in the shower than 2 more sets of 25 before i go to sleep with is spread out by like 2 hours, i noticed my muscles are starting to get thicker and my pecks have become more defined, im now trying to find exercises for my legs and for my gut, i do 4 sets of 20 sits twisting with each rep but I don’t do them often due to how sore i get
I use to do 300 a day(not all in one go but split the 100’s to morning, evening and night) personally nothing affected my body from lots of push ups and I had big muscles because of it. Stopped doing them because my schedule became too busy in the future
I do 100 pushups a day. It was 150 a day prior to a hernia surgery in April. In previous years i have completed well more than 50,000 pushups a year. I only cut back by 50 a day only to add 100 body squats a day and my normal 100 core a day. I do like the approach laid out in this video. Will begin to incorporate the Superman exercise. Thanks
That new exercise looks a lot like swimming freestyle, which is what has been helping me heal tight shoulders from pushups. Thanks for a great idea!.
Breaststroke, but point made:)
I really wish more people would discuss the importance of working your back if you do pushups like this. I had no clue and gave myself a month of bad posture and back pain. My pushups were looking pretty good though
Well now I know why my posture has gone to hell. At one point I was doing a minimum of 300 a day but never took care of my rhomboids. You're doing God's work brother thank you!
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I have a really mixed opinion about the whole hundred push-ups a day thing. I actually forced myself to do that with a weird routine for an entire year. Since I was going from zero workout in history I started off light at 30 and then I would do 30 everyday for the month and then the next month I would add on another 10. I started January of that year with 30 a day, and October 1st all the way through the new year I did 100 push-ups a day. It definitely absolutely trimmed out my shoulders and my arms and I got a ton of compliments for them, but I absolutely noticed that it really honestly just gave me good strength and definition but it did not bulk me up at all. I'm pretty sure that Annie and all of the calisthetic workouts you do can give you good actual muscular strength, but other than that all it really does is trim down your body fat and give you the definition that makes it all look good whereas when you actually get into the weight lifting that's where you actually get that strain and everything starts getting puffy and you start seeing the Mr Olympia type of people.
Im actually gonna try your method cuz i dont wanna bulk😄
Your missing 1 key part adding weight just doing it as body weight will not add the muscle you need to add weighted to it for bulk
Jeff has continued to be a major staple in my workout life over the past 5 years I've been watching his channel. Simply the best out there
are you ripped after 5 years?
@@toomuchinformation9795 yep lol
How? 5 years and everything you do and ever will do, is going to kill your gains.
@@JosGNG187 what? I use many sources of information for my lifting/workout/athletic lifestyle and Jeff always has constructive ideas to help me with very specific things.
I don’t want gains I want the endurance and strength, don’t care to be big
I like to switch to working my abs while my arms recover but I like the recovery exercise you shared. I’ve gotten so much stronger without weights just body weight exercises!
Nice addition to do the superman press-out (20x) after each set of push-ups. Adds to range of muscle groups being trained without making it too complex to stick to (the biggest attraction of the '100 push-ups per day' regime is its simplicity - and anything is better than doing nothing).
I use to do 1000 pushups a day and I received great results and had no problems with my tendons. But weight training everyday was where I experienced problems.
Damn, how long did this take? Were you in prison at the time?
You must be a chef
@@jdklein033 everything is mental I couldn’t do a single push-up 4 months ago when I started training but with the ability to push trough the pain I do usually like 600 a day now and that’s not my only workout
Currently I am doing 70-30-30 sets along with sit ups and belly workout. Goal is to do 100 pushups in one go.
I mean if your tryna get bigger then doing more than 30 pressups aint the way to go u geg to 30 and u add weights to get back to 10 reps n start again
I agree that increasing the difficulty of the pushup is a great way to increase your reps: Especially, varying the hand-width position.
I've never believed that cranking out 100 pushups in one go is beneficial. I actually spread them out through-out the day. Sometimes I'll do 20 3 times a day. Sometimes I'll do sets to failure. You're completely right when you say that doing 100 pushups in one go means pushups are too easy for you.
You’re literally the best channel on here thank you for all the content
I always do 100 push-ups, 100 sit-ups, 100 squats and a 10 km run daily. Other than the hair loss and the inability to kill mosquitos, I'm doing pretty fine.
Bruh🤣💀
SAITAMAAA 🤣
Lmfao
To get rid of the mosquitos, you need to run faster.
Mix it up man. Huge Hefner said he was going to start a magazine for married guys. Every month, same women in all the pictures.
I do strict pushups and pullups 3x per week on Tu/Th/Sun. This allows me enough volume/frequency to progress and decent recovery. I also run stairs 3x per week and walk 15-20K steps daily.
Covid eliminating gyms and lifting the past few years really made me switch mindsets of mastering my bodyweight and going back to basics. Truthfully I don't really miss lifting and feel better.
You are my hero.
Do you wear your underpants on the inside or outside
@@yourenotwrong3511 The point he is trying to make is shake that thing miss annabella shake that thing rebecka, sexy lady...
I started to get back pain from a muscle imbalance. Started having to do other work outs to counteract the over development under development issue.
What Jeff is telling here is about volume, instead of limiting to 100 push ups a day, break it into 5 sessions, do push ups each session until failure. That way you'll max out your exercise to the fullest at the same time doing more reps even exceeding 100 per day. Finish up each session with the compliment superman exercise for the rhomboids.
its not all about gains Jeff, not every guy is a bodybuilder. We are athletes. Muscle endurance is important. At the start doing 100 pushups a day gave me so much strenght for pullups dips and compound movements, got so much newbie gains and strenght.
Yeah probably because it was newbie gains. You could have done almost anything and gained strength.
Athletes keep their muscles in balance. And that is what Jeff is saying you should do...
As a man weighing over 200lbs I was unable to completely do a knee push up. Started with 10 pushups a day did till I reached 30 gradually then one day pushed myself to 60 and now doing it 100 a day (30 full pushups and 70 knee push ups) it's been 20 days now and I have seen difference
Bravoo!
way to go man keep it up
progress?
What a coincidence, I've just started doing trying to do 20 pushups every time I get up to go to the restroom for about 2 weeks now. I've noticed significant gains, and that I drink way too much coffee... I average 100 in a day. Ill have to try adding the superman lifts. Great advice as always.
my boy, always with a unique take on all the hyped workouts
I just started doing your Pull Push Legs routine 2 weeks ago. I used to workout (not train) a lot and had it in my head that I need to do 6 days in a row with only one day off. Now that I'm in my 30's and currently fat, I have to admit I appreciate having the day off for conditioning cardio every 4th day. I think my body and my heart apreciate it too. 🤘🏼🤘🏼
I found the biggest issue with push ups was damage to my back. Since when I started to slouch, I'd keep going.. Then day after day my back was stiff to a point where it hurt.. Now I do a variety of standing weights + stretches and my back is getting better.
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That's how I've been doing every exercise I do. It started out as laziness counting my reps. Then I realized I can get awesome pumps just going till I can push another rep out. And was this is the way to go! I was building faster with less exercises. I've been doing this kind of work out for since the mid nineties.
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I counter my push-ups with at least 50 pull ups a day 5 days a week! Keeps my posture strong 💪
That’s so important 👍🏽
Yeah I don't get it why some people train only pushing muscles... you have also pulling muscles. Overall training almost anything "every day" is stupid, you are supposed to recover 48h and use a split. 2-way split at minimal, unless you're complete beginner, then you can get away with no split. But then you shouldn't train every day. Training the same muscle every day is so goddamn stupid (for other than maybe abs), just destroy the muscle, rest 48 hours, that's the best way for growth. Also best way to not get injured
Much wiser approach, definitely leveled up my game. Blessings
I literally did this and completed so many variations of push ups during the 30 days. Increased my bench, weight loss and physically looked more toned.
Can’t wait to start doing them. Staring Dec 5. I’ll be 51 this dec4th. Let see how it goes 💪🏼🤩
How did it go?
Happy birthday in advance!
I'll start with you the same day , let's go
happy birthday man 🎉
I'm up to 300 pushups a Day over the last 8 weeks.
Barely was able to do 10 without giving up
Then I got to 10 over 5 reps a day.
then 20 and 5 reps
then 30 over 10 reps
Now this last week I did 50 over 6 reps
Just added situps and looking to push myself.
I'll add this to my workout thanks.
Been doing pushups for 20+ years. At some point i was making 250 in 5 sets per day. It kills your shoulder joints. Now i make 48 in 4 sets and not raising all the way up(to protect shoulders), while going very slow down. Also mixed in some other exercises, the difference in muscle is very visible. I went from 65 to 73 kg with this change in pushups and it's mostly muscle
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This is why i again feel 50x should be a max but instead do 5x10 reps of variations with good form instead.
Yeah, you didn’t gain 8kg of muscle from doing push ups more effectively…
Somebody come get this guy.
@@codylowe4791 ofc not, there's also food involved and i said i mixed in some other exercises. What are you trying to say?
@@powerup9035 that you didn’t add 8kg of muscle because you switched push up variation. I mean that’s pretty obvious. Props for gaining 8kg of muscle, but I don’t think you’re giving yourself credit if you think that came from a difference in push ups 😂
Great advice seriously,I ripped my shoulder cuff in martial arts so it’s been a slow process on the road to recovery so this video really helps . Big thumbs up and thank you 🙏🏼.
Twenty years ago I ripped my shoulder while replacing the weight on an incline bench. Years later I thought it would never heal completely. But reading this comment, it's the first time in my life I realized I haven't had trouble with it at all recently.
Thank you Jeff. This is the video I was hoping you would make in response to the 100 push up challenge videos. Well done. It takes daily effort to protect our shoulders and prevent ourselves from creating structural imbalances.
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This is exactly what i do to increase my potential in the amount of pushups i can accomplish. You do this the way he describes it and it will boost your overall outcome if you were to rest a day or two after some good amount of time training your arms. With that said, Ive been able to pump out 82 push ups in a minute by doing it this way and I was 35 yrs old at the time. I just didnt implement his superman variation he does in the end. A good tip also, is to do deep push ups (go down lower than normal) to compliment the regular push up, keep in mind this works the triceps more, but it ensures you are getting that full rep you should be looking for rather than doing half (noodle looking) push up motions. I would do 5 or even 6 sets throughout the day to accomplish this goal woth about two sets back to back and would hoose either the day or night to hit my reps put which helps with some rest needed to help you keep going. I would go to failure, but same time not completely burn out my arms since i wanted energy to do my next set i wanted to do as well. But ya, this method works for sure.
I currently do 5 Sets / 50 Reps / 2.5 mins between sets / 3 days (750 push-ups) a week!
I could probably do more or increase my level of difficulty, but i think i’m good…for now…for a 58yr old man!
So you do fast push ups