Everyone who trains at some point has done or still does push-ups to some degree. The problem is, most people don’t work very hard to get better at push-ups. Push-ups are usually done to warm up or cool down at the end of a workout.
Many people have little respect for the lizard and what it can and will do for the body. I know I have done over a million push-ups in my thirty plus years of training. In those thirty years of training and push-ups she was always trying to find the best way to improve the number of push-ups she could do.
I tried every possible way to try and increase my numbers and there was never any information on how to improve the number of push-ups. I thought and tried to figure it out. One way I thought of increasing the number was by doing a lot of bench pressing at the time. I thought it was almost the same move and of course I found that nothing could be further from the truth.
So the bench press didn’t help me. I thought I needed to improve my stamina because doing push-ups made me breathe heavy to fast, which slowed me down. The distance race did not help me.
The first time I did a lot of push-ups in a workout was when I was a senior in high school, when I did 1200 push-ups in 1 hour. But I still couldn’t figure out how I should train to improve my push-ups besides doing push-ups.
Then he caught me with the experts talking about resting and letting the body rest and not training too much, no wonder I wasn’t getting better, it was because I wasn’t doing enough.
The two secrets that changed the amount of push-ups I could do were having a functionally stronger body and training with short, intense exercises like sprints, jumping rope, burpees, etc.
Training this way allowed my body to get used to training without oxygen (anaerobic) and not with oxygen (aerobic). Weight training and distance running require training the anaerobic system. Sprints, jumping rope, burpees, push-ups require training the anaerobic system to really excel.
Men in the military, state police, mixed martial arts, and martial arts have all benefited from this type of training to improve their push-ups.
Training fast and explosively will strengthen your body and give you the strength and conditioning necessary to improve your push-up numbers more than you thought possible.
