Push Up Max Check In
I ran into Paul in the locker room today at the gym. He asked how my push up hold progress was coming along. The answer was that for the past month or so, I haven’t been doing these much. At most I’ll just hold it for a few minutes to work the arm and chest muscles out, but will not go to failure.
As soon as I finished talking to Paul, I went down to the gym to try to max out. His question made me really curious. It has been over a month since my last test. I had just trained chest the previous day so I didn’t know what to expect.
- May 29th: 41
- June 6th: 44
- July 9th: 54
- August 16th: 62!!!
Right now I’m focusing on increasing my 1 set max for push ups (full reps). To do this I’ve just been weight training and doing occasional sets of Push Ups (typically 2-3 sets of 25-35). Yoga is also very helpful.I set a goal back in May to hit 75 by the end of September. I’m getting close but progress is slowing down (as expected).
