[Closed] Fit Club: the hundred push ups training program

I thought a marine press up was where you bring one leg up off the floor alternately on each down stroke of the press up and move it up towards your body. This increases the amount of total weight on the upper body. What you've just described is narrow arm press us. A bit harder than usual press ups because it increases the weight on the triceps and also hits the central part of the pec muscles.

Kev

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You could try -
Wide and narrow press-ups on fists - for martial arts fans.
Feet on a chair press-ups - harder than normal.
Handstand press-ups against a wall - for fans of the original version of the mean machine.
One armed press-ups - for the hell of it.

I thought you meant putting both hands together in the center, that makes it a bit harder.

Kev

handstand press ups are good. bit of a blood rush to the head though.

Kev

just done day 2w3 of the pressups, just about managed it, the extra rest was needed. also on day 2 of the pullups, just about manged that too.
i felt more tired than monday but managed to keep things smooth and controled.
looking forward to friday, day 3 looks fairly hard but hoping with the extra rest (2min) i'll do it. (dont under estimate the power of rest at the end of the set) this gets easier right?

Bah. Try the 200 press-up challenge. 10 mins to do 200.

Got to 181 once. I might resurrect this.

Past 100 its gets VERY hard.

[i]If you start to feel shaky, take a few deep breaths and regain your composure before starting again. Good luck - I know you can do it!![/i]

Doesn't really sound like consecutive does it. Hmmm.

Right,

Just done my sets for tonight - week 3, day 2. Sets of 14, 19, 14, 14 and 19+

Only managed 17 for the last set which felt VERY hard, can't lift my arms now. Started at Week 3 column 2 which seems challenge enough - column 1 would be too easy and column 3 impossible for me right now.

ok, better late than never, managed 25 on the initial test so going to week 3, even downloaded the ipod app so we'll see how it goes.

ok must have given it 20 minutes and curiosity got the better of me, holy shit its quite hard at week 3, managed 12, 17 and 13 fine then managed about 10 😳 then about 12 😳 day off tomorrow 😀

Done week 1 day 2 and am recovering with Carlsberg.

I have rejigged my workout plan and going to start this next week, as the one thing i really neglect is my chest. Looking forward to it in a perverse kinda way! So much so i have ordered some of these as they were cheap on amazon:

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MMM am I the only chick that's thinking about doing this? I have grown to love press ups now I can do proper manly ones rather that shizzle girlie ones on the knee. I can do 4 sets of 10 ... not sure how many I can just do one off, may have a go next week and start for fun!!

We've also started 200 sit-ups, lovely!

nope munqe-chick, I too am doing them. Join in, it's fun!

Managed my second set okayish but much harder than monday. (I started on Week One, column 2, though I think I'm kinda in the middle of 2 and 3 so I'm just doing a number between the two columns)

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Me and Sara started this and the 200 situp thing a while back. We made it through week 2 pretty well, then week three started and we kind of lost interest (i.e. things started getting hard!) - must resurrect it!

I started this and am suffering now but was day off today. All I could manange to begin on test day was 20 but then did first day straight after. Doh!

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I am all about the multi-tasking

I am all about the multi-tasking

😆 Jamie's shirt after multi-tasking the ironing and 100 reps.

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second session done, shoulda really been yesterday but i had stuff to do.

Week 3, day 3 done.

Sets of 16, 21, 15, 15 and 21.

Last set reduced me to a quivering amoeba, but I managed.

[b]All[/b] the muscles in my upper body hurt - even my eyelids.

stuartie-c... 88 altogether then.

I did 75 press ups tonight, but not like that. I went out for a run and did 'em in 3 sets of twenty along the way then did 15 at the end. I doubt if I could do that many with only a minute or whatever rest in between though.

how many on next weeks sets ?

Kev

Keva,

next week starts with sets of 18,22,16,16,25+ which is not too much more than tonight's, but is ramps up very steeply to 23,28,23,23,33+

😯

I felt stronger tonight than on wednesday, but had been out on the bike for 1 1/2 hours beforehand so was well warmed up. Also the rests between sets get longer as the sets get more intense - 60, 90 then 120 seconds which makes a big difference.

blimey if i'd been out on the bike for 1 1/2 hours I'd be more worn out than warmed up !

97 next then if ive added up properly then a jump to 130 !! ..but longer rests.. I managed 47.5 press ups last time I tried in one go. Always used to do 60 until recently.. wierd. Guess I just do as many as often as i used to.

keep it up.. good luck... most I ever did in one go was 96, that was in 1992. Then I got up to 96 again but that was against a 2 minute clock so I could do a few then rest, do a few, then rest. Id ran out of strength at about 1:45 anyways!

Kev

is it too late to start? was about to start at BritMilitary Fitness but this'll save me money.

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I wonder if there's a market for 100situps.com or 100chinups.com...

My idea! No stealing

7 minute abs!

How about 6 minute abs?

hehe... Jimmy, I used to do BMF. It's great fun but pretty intense at times... lots of sprinting, heart in the red line stuff.

Kev

Just had a look ahead to week 5. Christ on a bike!

Week 4, day 1 done (almost...)

Sets 18,22, 16, 16 and 25+ with 60 seconds between.

Only got to 24 on the last set and took 90 seconds between sets 4 and 5.

Physically couldn't do that last one 😯

week 3, day 3 done, even managed to push myself to 22 for the final set

not so great that i managed a workout on days 1,4,7

Week 4 day 1 done 21,25,21,21, then should have done 36 but only managed 28 so failed, rested 10 secs and smashed out another 10 though.
I will repeat it on wednesday and probably friday before moving on to day 2, its got hard all of a sudden...

I managed to complete wk 2 day1 of my chinups though, well pleased

I did week 1 day 1 yesterday and my man boobs hurt today. Reminded me how little resistance work i do.....roll on tomorrow.

[url= http://www.twohundredsitups.com/ ]Sit-ups[/url]

I'm gonna start off the press-ups this evening.

I did week 3 day 1 on Sunday (25+ on initial test). The last set really is the killer. I've done similar sets before without a beasting final one. I was aching all over for 2 days so onto 'day 2' tonight.

I'm on week 2 day 2 now. Found the last lot quite hard, but then I am a 16 stone lump. 😛

Good luck going from week 5 to 6. The last 2 times I've tried this 100 press-ups thing that's where I got nailed. Must've done week 5 2 or 3 times before giving up! I have no will-power (hence the almost empty biscuit packet on my desk).

Well i think i am going to be starting the first week again next week. Was hoping to do mon/wed/fri but still ache today so thats that knackered.

When is the first STW press-up meet...?

My wrist is sorted now, so I'll be giving this another go. A colleague is on week 2 now, so unless he stops I'll have to keep going 🙂

I think I'm an oddity, I can only do 20 or so pushups, yet I can do 10-15 with a mate sat on my shoulders, no way in hell could I do 100, even when I was at my fittest and able to bench-press way over my body weight 😯

Not sure what that signifies, but needless to say I'm not a stamina person!

Oh dear.

On the initial test I did 5. Just did week 1 day 1, in the easiest column. Did 4 press ups in the final set.

Weak, weak, weak.

Oh dear I'd forgotten about this. How about the prison work out?

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whos still doing this?

Completed week 3, day 2, column 3, just.

🙂

After a false start last week i started week one this week. Did day 2 today which was quite impressive as i had just got in from a 50 mile ride.

Just about to start week 2, col 3. Did the last set of week 1 after eating on Sunday and felt very ill afterwards.

I'm not very good at organised exercise thingys it seems...

Just did week 1 day 2 a week later than I should have. Doing left-hand column because I'm super-weak. Did 5 in final set, which is one more than a week ago.

keep at it miketually. i managed to get off w4d1 monday after repeating it a few days, think the extra rest at the weekend did the job. w4d2 done today but was 6 short on the last set, so repeating friday maybe monday
the only problem with this routine is it will take longer and longer to complete, feeling stronger for sure but my rest times are creeping up.

w3 on the chin ups all going well

Cheers dobo. Can't see me ever doing it long enough to get to 100, but want to get to 25 or 30 then keep doing that every other day.

Suffering b@stard!

I'm repeating week 4 this week because I didn't complete all 3 days last week.

Just done day 2 which was 20,25,20,20,28 with 90 sec rests. Bloody hard and I had to drop on my knees (briefly) before pushing out the last 5. I'm finding my arms getting much stronger but it's my back which is the weak link and needs to catch up.

(This was after a 3 1/2 hour bike ride!)

On week 1, day 2, column 2 - did 6, 8, 6, 6, and finished off with 9 😀 which is 1 more than I did on my initial test. 😀 😀

Am now thinking of doing 200 sit-ups programme on the rest days. 😕

Just repeated week 4, day 2 (20,25,20,20,30) this time without extra time between last two sets and without resting like a girl. Feeling stronger.

Aim is to complete week 4 on Sunday before the exhaustion test and the start of week 5 which looks like a killer 😯

Up to Week 3 day 3 today, and the same with the sit-ups. Going well so far....

Week 1 Day 3 today (4, 5, 4, 4, max (4+)). Rested too long between sets 1 and 2 because I got distracted and might have done an extra set of four because I lost count, then finished with 8, which is 60% more than the five I did on the initial test.

That's week 4 done!

Pretty punishing final set of 33 which necessitated a couple of "arse in the air" stretches for the back.

Exhaustion test on Tuesday then start week 5 on Wed/Thu. I'm fairly confident about making the 36-40 for column 2 in week 5 which is daunting enough (up to 8 sets on days 2 and 3 with 45 sec rests only!)

I started week 2 day 1 today. I am ok until i get to the final 15 and had to have 3 goes at it. Will be repeating this week again by the looks of it i reckon. This 6 week plan is going to end up nearer 12

can you settle a discussion between me and a friend about this? we are going to start doing this and did the initial test last week. we are discussing how far down you need to go - he reckons there should only be a fist between chest and the ground. i find going down that far pretty uncomfortable and usually only do it so as my shoulders/elbows/back are in a straight line. my theory is that a press up is similar to the chest press in the gym, and i wouldn't take that down to my chest as it puts too much strain on elbows etc.

anyway, i got 25 when i did it last week. usually do 4 sets of 15, twice a week so will have to skip a few weeks to find a level i'm happy with.

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DGOAB,

I'm working on the "elbows at 90 degrees" principle and back up to near lock (but not quite as this would take the load off the muscles momentarily). Going any lower makes it much harder and seems to put too much strain on the elbows and my bad wrist.

Got me worried now that I might be cheating!

maybe i'll just tell him i'm right! when i did the test, i didn't find it was my arms that hurt first - it was my lower back. 😥 think i might wait until my back settles down properly and do a new test and start in a few weeks. i like press ups, one of my fave exercises in the gym 😳

it doesn't say anywhere how low you need to go - i reckon the lower it is, the more strain it puts on elbows/wrists and it does make it much harder as well

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elbow bends to 90 degrees for a full press up.

Bimbler... those prison burpees are called barstwards, normal burpees don't include a press up. I like to do a few sets of those when out running.

Kev

Only just seen this.....

<goes off to bedroom to perform the 'initial test'>
(s**** all you like :lol:but, with floor to ceiling windows here in the lounge I don't plan to show the world just how unfit I am.... 😀 )

So, Week 1 efforts will start tomorrow....
initial test results
10 press-ups
20 sit ups 😳

now, recovery drink time.......... mmm Birra Moretti should do nicely

marsdenman, you did twice as many in the initial test as me and (IIRC) I'm rather lighter than you so it should be easier for me!

Mark Twight of Gym Jones think the chest should [i]touch[/i] the floor in a push-up:

Push-ups: chest touches the floor first, active shoulder and full extension at the top, body held as a solid plank, the hips do not move

- [url= http://www.gymjones.com/knowledge.php?id=20 ]Gym Jones: Quality[/url]

I'd always planned to retake the initial test after three weeks and to start again, so might start using this definition from that test onwards.

Week 4 exhaustion test - 40. Initial test was 25, so definite progress.

I could have kept going but that would put me into column 3 for week 5 and bugger that, quite frankly.

I'm not touching the floor on each one, but my excuse is that I don't have a great big barrel chest which would make it easier (also it hurts my bad wrist...)

Do um naked and go down til you, ahem touch the floor..

Then I wouldn't get very far down at all...

Started week 1 again, had a better offer than spending 10 minutes doing press-ups after work. 😳 damn my will power of rice pudding!!

mmm....muller-rice.....

Did the exhaustion test at the end of week 2 - 20 up from 11 so an improvement I suppose. Used to be able to do 20 easily though. 😡

used to do 200 a night, back when I was 18, used to work on a farm back then and was reasonably fit.

Now some 22 years on, after reading this post, I sweated out with just 35, with my Mrs sat laughing at me!

Think I might need to work at it a bit.

Great post btw.

I could be missing something as I've only skimmed all that's here, but is there a similar programme for pull ups anybody knows of? (Not necessarily 100!)

Kendal, a pull ups programme:
[url= http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Recon_Ron_Pull-up_Program ]Recon Ron Pull Up Program[/url]

Back to week 3 column 3 again, left it for a few too many days and found that week 4 was too difficult...

Week 2, day 2, left hand column (5, 6, 4, 4, 7). I think my 6-year-old daughter could do more.

My right wrist is killing me if I try more than 10. Any suggestions? And no, I won't stop [b]it[/b].

My right wrist is killing me if I try more than 10. Any suggestions? And no, I won't stop it.

@mattmagic on Twitter suggested using dumbells, rather than placing hands flat on the floor.

Currently on week 5, day 2. I managed to complete day 2 earlier with my max at 31. I don't think that I'll be able to do 100 at the end of next week though!