Pushups My Way.

[blackbeltbill]

       Thought,I would post up just 1 small segment of my Full Body Workout done on Monday- Wednesday, and Friday. The Steve Reeves method of workout frequency.  It takes me roughly 1 hour + 15 minutes with some good rest breaks in between.

  For Pushups,I alternate  between Floor and Feet up on a Chair and very the hand spacing often.

   The first type of Pushup,I do are the Military Pushups or Top Half . I start with a full 3 Seconds at Arms Locked out and lower fairly slowly to halfway  down and press up fairly slowly.

   I hold the Top Locked out position for 3 Seconds and continue as above.  I usually do 2 Sets with a good 5 minute break in between sets. A set of 10 Reps like this will take over 40 Seconds. Very enjoyable.  

  My 2nd type of pushups are the " Prison Pushups".  These are done " in the middle" with no Lockout and for these,I move at a medium speed and go for a few sets of  between 20- 25.

    Sometimes,I will go for 3 sets of these pushups. Hope Y'ALL enjoyed this Thread.  I am 63 and weigh 225 right now. I was over 250 a few years back.  

[lucky118]

Haven't  done push-ups since army days. Use to hear" front leaning rest position go" ,alot. I was kind of a smart ass lol

[blackbeltbill]

1 hour ago, lucky118 said:

Haven't  done push-ups since army days. Use to hear" front leaning rest position go" ,alot. I was kind of a smart ass lol

No more super heavy Bench Press for this 63 year old. My best was 410lbs with back flat on the Bench.

  Those long 40+ second- might be close to 1 minute long sets with 12 reps with the 3 second Lockouts and moving slow fills the bill today.

[blackbeltbill]

Wes Watson on- GP- Penitentiary  advocates also Sets of 40 to 60 Seconds.  You can see what he looks like over at his channel.

[Nomad]

There’s so ,many ways to do them ! One of my favorite is every minute on the minute is to do 1, then 2 then 3 adding 1 until you can’t complete the number of push-ups without the sixty seconds running out .

One odd thing,when I do push-ups a lot I find my back gets sore ! When in Fla the next couple months I’ll have a one pod Kettlebell and bodyweight exercises to keep me somewhat strong .

[Jeremy K]

I went from doing 300 a day and took a break and I was amazed how fast you can lose it. I'm slowly getting back up to that number. 

[blackbeltbill]

   This past Friday ,I did 4 Sets of wide hand-spacing Pushups. I was up to my goal of holding the Top Locked out position  for a good 7 Seconds between each rep.  The Pushups themselves  are slow. Slow Negatives to halfway down and then up at a medium speed.

  My whole Body Workout takes just over 1 hour on Monday-Wednesday- Friday. 

  Martial Arts and Boxing is everyday of course for roughly 40 minutes or so.

    Plenty of rest time to enjoy Hiking outdoors and keep up with the Reading.

   

[blackbeltbill]

6/5/23- As part of my Full Body weightlifting today,I performed wide - Hand Spacing Pushups. 

  3/4 or more in the middle- down fairly slowly  until upperbody almost touches the Floor and fairly  Slowly up  and not Locking out the Arms.

  8 Sets of 10 Reps today.