100 Consecutive Push Ups

Add one every day and you will make it in a quarter year

I did 209 in boot camp. I don't know how I did it, I had never done near that many before and I never came close to it again.

I used to be able to do 100. It hurt. Work up until you can do 70 regularly, adding 5 every few weeks from where you are now. Do pushups almost every day. When 70 doesn't seem that bad, take a couple days off and go for 100. I stopped doing these long single sets of push ups because they didn't seem to add anything to my running, but I've recently started doing a couple sets of 25-30 after years of none.

That's nothing. I've been doing 25 every morning for years. Takes less than a minute.

1000 push ups on the other hand...

Treat it like training.

Do things like 6x20 with long rest, then shorter rest between pairs of 20s.

(20+20) + (20+20) +(20+20)

Then instead of short rest between those 20s, recover while pausing, not stopping.

40 + 40 +40.

Then put 60+40 together etc.

Cycle it. Do 10x10 with smooth cadence and short rests.

Lots of things to try.

Try putting "how to do 100 consecutive pushups" into a search engine. There are loads of sites with different plans of how to do it.

I followed one of the programs once. It was a 6-week program to get you from nowhere to 100 push-ups. It ended up taking me probably twice as long, but I did get there eventually.

It’s easy, add 10 every week or two.

I used to do it 5 days a week, I would just stop at 100. I just did as many as I could in one set, every weekday. Once that got to 100, I just would hit 100 and stop.

You might try varying things a little, elevated feet, military, diamond, one armed, P90X has a few variants....just for some variety and more general strength gain.

Its not too hard really, you'll get there.

I got in the zone wrote:

I did 209 in boot camp. I don't know how I did it, I had never done near that many before and I never came close to it again.

No you didn't.

Unless you are really short or really skinny it's very hard. Don't listen to these idiots. Anyone with some real muscles has trouble getting to 100 without a hell of a lot of work.

Push-ups, like pull-ups, (or even running) is hard up to a certain point, but after that it gets easy to pile on reps (or miles).

I have accomplished this feat twice in my life. The first time I used hundredpushups.com. I had to go through the program twice before I could get to 100.

The second time I hit 100 I actually got to 115, and I did that on pure hate. I was probably only in shape to do 80 at the time. I wasn't following any set program at the time. Just doing a bunch of various pushups every other day.

Now I'd be lucky to hit 60 in a row. It goes away fast.

A friend was training for this. I wasn't sure how hard it would be, so decided to give it a try. My baseline was at about 40 consecutive pushups. So I kept it simple: one max set every day. I worked up to 100 in 4 weeks of doing that.

While 1 max set a day isnt a good way to train for it, it does underscore an important point: don't lose sight of the fact that it is an endurance endeavour. So:

- work in sessions where you do sets of pushups on short rest. The idea is to get yourself to do more pushups you can do consecutively in a way that isnt quite consecutive. If you're currently at 60 max, try to get 5x20 done with 15 to 20 seconds of rest. This will be impossible the first few times, but will quickly build muscular endurance. Adjust every few weeks as your max consecutive increases.

- work in some "assisted" pushups (incline pushups is one way, benchpress with less than half of your body weight is another way). The idea here is to get in multiple sets near, at, or even exceeding your max consecutive pushups.

Obviously, dont stop doing other things: once a week or so you should be doing 400 or 500 pushups broken into small sets over an hour. Other days you should be doing narrow pushups, other days wide pushups, other days do normal pushups, but scooted forward to force as much weight onto your hands as possible, which eventually you may get the strength built to do arms-only pushups.

While my "max set every day" technique worked for me to get to 100 relatively quickly, it was really just a way to get lots of beginner gains, it wasnt a good long term plan.

Could do 100 when I was about 12 haha. Could probs only do about 60 now but train by doing 3 sets of 35 and adding 5 to each set every month

Most people who claim to do 100 pushups come nowhere near doing 100 real pushups.

Exactly this. Surprised it took this long for someone to mention form. I'd love to see anyone claiming to do 100 do them correctly.

Perhaps the goal should be to do as many push ups as you can, for as many sets as you can, with correct form. All these arbitrary volume goals lead to is injury-prone training.

ThatAverageRunner wrote:

Push-ups, like pull-ups, (or even running) is hard up to a certain point, but after that it gets easy to pile on reps (or miles).

Never been the case for me. My best ever was probably upper 40’s for pushups and 16 pull-ups.

I am jealous of guys who can crank out those high reps.