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YUP nice old Guildford.

Strange we ended up in Guildford really as every single member of my family are from Yorkshire. Dad's from Doncaster Mum from Harrogate and i was born in Leeds and lived there till i was three then moved to Norway for 3 years then Liphook then Guildford! work that one out! (my dad works for the National Grid)

As you probrably can guess id have a hard time choosing a "Local" regiment. lol.

Try a 4 mile run every other morning and stop every half mile for 50% of
your pressups [thats 8 stops]. At the end of the run reward yourself with max pressups . Each subsequent run increase the number of pressups at each stop by one. This kind of run is best done on a country walk... The other mornings do a max-pressups, and then do it once more again.

MikeB wrote:YUP nice old Guildford.

Strange we ended up in Guildford really as every single member of my family are from Yorkshire. Dad's from Doncaster Mum from Harrogate and i was born in Leeds and lived there till i was three then moved to Norway for 3 years then Liphook then Guildford! work that one out! (my dad works for the National Grid)

As you probrably can guess id have a hard time choosing a "Local" regiment. lol.

Sorry about the life story there guys! I have no idea why i wrote that!

A good way i find to increase push up max is a method i found on the Marines forum (i think!).

Basically you do 10 push ups, pause for 5 -10 seconds then do 9 push ups, pause for 5 - 10 seconds do 8 push ups etc till you have gone right down to 1 push up. You actually end up doing 55 push ups in around 2 - 2.5 mins. Every time you attempt it you reduce the rest between each set till you can do the 55 without pausing. TOUGH but well worth it especially when you get the burn!

Lucent wrote:Try a 4 mile run every other morning and stop every half mile for 50% of
your pressups [thats 8 stops]. At the end of the run reward yourself with max pressups . Each subsequent run increase the number of pressups at each stop by one. This kind of run is best done on a country walk... The other mornings do a max-pressups, and then do it once more again.

Good idea about the coutry walk - Youd do that though a town, people will think ur a knob just randomly stopping and doin pressups! But good idea all the same.

I've tried the Pyramids, they're bloody hard. Too add to what you said. When you do the last push up, rest for 30secs, then try and work you way back up. E.g. Do 1, wait 5-10 secs, to 2 etc.

coops

Useful stuff (need to increase my max)
P.S. - MikeB i used to live in haslemere Before Singapore - also used to go to school in Liphook - Bohunt

A Bohunt boy eh

Better get doing some pressups then if you want to increase your max!

Coops

I went to the primary school in Liphook but i never went to bo hunt, went to George Abbot in guildford.

I'm going to give this a try for two weeks starting today (calling today 'Monday')

One question - It would be stupid to continue such a programme for a prolonged period of time - So will I be able to maintain my new 'max' for a few weeks?

Mike

I'd just go easy for the third week then start it off again Mike, your pushups max should have increased so you'll have to adjust the %s.

Good idea...I'll see how it goes.

Surely you don't adjust the PERCENTAGES each week; you keep the same % but as your max will have increased, the %s equate to more reps than they did the previous week.

Cheers,

Mike

Yeah, that would probably be the best. Did this routine a couple of years ago and it definitely works, works for any exercise, pullups/situps etc. The routine really just boils down to doing a few pushups whenever you have the chance throughout the day so your muscles will get used to doing them. The guy that came up with this routine (Pavel Tsatsouline) likes this kind of training because your muscles are never totally knackered like after a gym session. If you're deployed on ops or in the police force you might be called out at any time and there's no point in having your muscles totally useless from a gym session, that's the way his philosophy goes anyway.

I'm on the sixth day today (pain day).

It's been 'fun'. Not only do I feel stronger but my 'form' has become much better. I'll let you know my increased max when I give it a go on Thursday.

Mike

Wahey! suck up the pain Mike_B!!

What was your original %max when you started it the programme?

Coops

Blimey, yesterday was pretty irritating!

My max was about 40. So on 'Pain Day' I did 20 every half hour (for those of you who can't divide 40 by 2).

I'm hoping to be at least up to 50 when I do my new max tomorrow, and I'll let you know.

Mike

Well, pushed out 50 so all's well.

I'm starting it again today, and I should hopefully be up to 60 by next week.

Cheers Mr. Cooper - Highly reccomended;

Mike