Ivan
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I just finished my first day of attempting 500 pushups daily in one go. I have done 500 pushups in a day as a challenge multiple times in the past but I have always split them up throughout the day. Today is my first time attempting to do them all in one sitting. I managed to squeeze out 361 pushups in a total time of 55 minutes. I was willing to do more, but it honestly felt like my chest muscles were going to be torn apart. I am going to see if I can keep this up as a daily routine, but it will be very difficult since I am already training BJJ twice daily almost every day, and have other matters such as university work. I also can't bear to imagine how badly it will feel to attempt this tomorrow, and then again the day after that, and the day after... Here is the routine I am striving for though:
500 push-ups
50 pull-ups, or 500 rows (still unsure about an appropriate number of rows but I've been told they are approximately a 1:1 ratio with pushups)
100 Hindu squats + 300 air squats (I will start off with just the hindu squats first until I am confident my knees can handle the load properly)
I've honestly become quite bored with traditional weight training. I am interested in seeing my body's reaction to training an immense amount of reps just using my body weight, as opposed to what I have been doing for years since I first started my martial arts and gym journey - low reps high weight. I have had the desire to do this for a while, but the main thing that held me back was my ego. I have very underdeveloped chest and trap muscles, so for a while now I've been attempting to grow them to almost no avail. I am a bit insecure about this, but I am ready to let it go. A part of me hopes these muscles will grow under this new routine but if they don't I am okay with that. Even if this training routine harms my body more than it strengthens it, I am confident it will at least help me to become more resilient and disciplined. In terms of physicality, however, my reasoning for this is that the above exercises activate more muscles than traditional dumbbell and barbell exercises.
For sports, I can't really think of situations in which conditioning muscles in isolation as opposed to group together is beneficial - furthermore, I would also argue that there is a bigger benefit in the ability to lift a heavy weight numerous amounts of times (training for muscular endurance) than the ability to lift an extremely heavy weight, just one time.
Anyway, wish me luck, and please, as always, feel free to provide your input on this.
500 push-ups
50 pull-ups, or 500 rows (still unsure about an appropriate number of rows but I've been told they are approximately a 1:1 ratio with pushups)
100 Hindu squats + 300 air squats (I will start off with just the hindu squats first until I am confident my knees can handle the load properly)
I've honestly become quite bored with traditional weight training. I am interested in seeing my body's reaction to training an immense amount of reps just using my body weight, as opposed to what I have been doing for years since I first started my martial arts and gym journey - low reps high weight. I have had the desire to do this for a while, but the main thing that held me back was my ego. I have very underdeveloped chest and trap muscles, so for a while now I've been attempting to grow them to almost no avail. I am a bit insecure about this, but I am ready to let it go. A part of me hopes these muscles will grow under this new routine but if they don't I am okay with that. Even if this training routine harms my body more than it strengthens it, I am confident it will at least help me to become more resilient and disciplined. In terms of physicality, however, my reasoning for this is that the above exercises activate more muscles than traditional dumbbell and barbell exercises.
For sports, I can't really think of situations in which conditioning muscles in isolation as opposed to group together is beneficial - furthermore, I would also argue that there is a bigger benefit in the ability to lift a heavy weight numerous amounts of times (training for muscular endurance) than the ability to lift an extremely heavy weight, just one time.
Anyway, wish me luck, and please, as always, feel free to provide your input on this.