1,000 push ups a day

[davisj3537]

5 months later he made a thread on Rotator Cuff issues - http://forum.bodybuilding.com/showth...post1093066703

[SparthenicZ]

OP should learn planche push ups or 90 degree push ups. Learn those advanced body weight exercises and try doing 1000 of those in one day.

[LadyLore420]

Lol, goodluck.. cant bench press or something?

You had 420 reputation. How you have 421. No more 420 4 u.

[twobitp]

Supposedly 1000 push ups a day is how Tom Hardy developed his upper body for Bronson. Not sure I buy it and from his bacne in Dark Knight Rises I'm pretty sure steroids had something to do with it.

I could never commit personally. My time is too precious to me.

[TheMadPhysicist]

one extreme example has you convinced over many many tried and tested theories.

Would it not be more efficient to stop p1ssing in the wind and just bench?!

Well, I've been reading up on Herschel Walker, a famous pro football player and mixed martial artist who never touched a weight. He did push ups, pull ups and sit ups every day, according to his team mates he is able to out lift a lot of them.

[andersosc]

I have undertaken this myself. I believe the key is to start out small and build up. I have been doing this religiously for 10 days now. I am awake about 14-16 hours each day. I started doing 20 push-ups each hour for 12 hours a day. Its a little embarrassing to my friends and family if we are out and about during those times. First day I did... 240. On day 4 I increased and included an additional two hours... 280! Today, My chest is sore, but the soreness is starting to ease up and I have increased to 30 each hour. By the end of the day I will have done 450!!! I figure it will take another six to eight weeks to hit 1000 constantly each day. I am using no supplements, and I maintain a healthy diet with the occasional treat. In ten days I have added a half inch to my chest and feel stronger. Don't even ask me to do bench presses!!!

Not that it matters, but best bench: 2x375lbs @189

[LadyLore420]

Oh god, another pushup thread. What's this the 5000th thread or something about skinny guys doing pushups?

This is not Sparta. You are not Leonides. You live in the 21st century... we have barbells now.

[LadyLore420]

He also claims he only eats 1 meal a day and is a vegetarian. Something smells fishy.

That's the gut wrenching smell of bean curd, seaweed, and yeast all combined in some god aweful stirfry that only a starving, rabid, hallucinating rabbit would dare consume.

And what I'm saying is very hypocritical because I was a vegan for 5 years... never been happier since I quit. Like, I can't possibly describe the joys of bacon, bacon fat, frying things in bacon fat, frying things stuffed with bacon in bacon fat, then wrapping it in bacon and using this to fuel a 12 hour long hunting trip for boar to get... more bacon.

[futurebody90]

that's a lot of pushups

[futurebody90]

but pushups are one of the best

[concept2complex]

I'm planning on doing 1000 push ups at work today. It's a 9 hour shift so I figure if I just do 100 every hour ( 5x20) I'll have 900 by days end and I'll bust out that last 100 when I get home.

[mikschu]

Cool story bro.

[AlteredBro]

I've been doing 100 push ups every day since the last 5 months or so and while they have helped increase my strength, my gains from doing them have been minimal. Using heavy weight training I have achieved far better results.

Maybe doing 1000 push ups might have better results but imo the time taken to do them will be too long and probably so will be the time taken to get any noticeable muscle gain from them.

[beezneez86]

I used to work on the slaughter-floor of an abattoir, the work I was doing was very physically demanding and not too different to the whole 1000 reps in one day idea. And this probably goes for a lot of factory of farm work type jobs where you simply lift, push or pull something for 8-12 hours a day. Most of the jobs involved pulling the hide from the animal, 2 jobs were pushing the hide downwards and one job was all knife work, aka the resting job. We had to do these tasks about once every 10 seconds over 3000 times a day. There was a training program in place for new employees where you would spend more time on the easier jobs and gradually spend more and more time on the harder ones until you could hold your own. I remember trying to do some of the jobs when I first started and being exhausted after 20-30 mins, But you've got to do it for a full 10 hour shift. A few months later and you can do a day's work and still go home with energy left over, plus you're strength has gone through the roof. I didn't think I looked that different and I wasn't exercising or lifting back then (this was 11 years ago) so I didn't have an exact measurement of my strength, but I do remember helping someone move house and I was lifting and moving things that other, bigger guys couldn't even pick up. I also remember injuring myself somehow and seeing a doctor. He felt my arms and shoulders and kept saying that I had "amazing muscle density" in my arms and shoulders. But I have since been promoted to a managers role and now I sit at a desk and sometimes walk around and watch everyone else straining and sweating. So here I am on this website trying to get my strength back.

tl;dr - doing something thousands of times a day will make you very strong.