So let's say a guy is in pretty good shape, so he can do between 50 and 80 pushpups at one time (so maybe his average is 65 pushups per session)... and then maybe he has about 5 minutes rest between each session of pushups. but it takes him almost 2 minutes to do each of the sets of the 65 pushups.
so for such a guy who is in good shape, his push up sets might look something like this:
1a) 65 PUs - 2 minutes - 5 minutes rest - running total of 65 PUs and 7 minutes
2a) 65 PUs - 2 minutes - 5 minutes rest - running total of 130 PUs and 14 minutes
3a) 65 PUs - 2 minutes - 5 minutes rest -running total of 185 PUs and 21 minutes
4a) 65 PUs - 2 minutes - 5 minutes rest - running total of 260 PUs and 28 minutes
Half way there in 28 minutes, so it seems to me that a fairly athletic guy might have to take at least an hour to get through 500 pushups... especially if he were doing 65 pushups per set and resting 5 minutes between sets.. so it would take 8 sets of 65 pushups to get up to 500 pushups.
I have a hard time imagining 500 pushups in 30 minutes...
Maybe we have to change the number of pushups to try to imagine more push-ups in a shorter period of time?
Let's try again:
1b) 125 PUs - 3 minutes - 5 minutes rest - running total of 125 PUs and 8 minutes
2b) 125 PUs - 3 minutes - 5 minutes rest - running total of 250 PUs and 16 minutes
3b) 125 PUs - 3 minutes - 5 minutes rest - running total of 375 PUs and 24 minutes
4b) 125 PUs - 3 minutes - 5 minutes rest - running total of 500 PUs and 32 minutes
Are you doing something like the second example of 125 pushups per set and 5 minutes break between sets?
I usually like to give guys the benefit of the doubt, but what they are saying has to have some level of believability in order to go along with such supposed scenarios. Your scenario of 500 pushups in 30 minutes hardly makes any sense in terms of believability based on the information that you have provided, so far.
If we are to make certain assumptions, then we would be some worth close but personally, I think 5minutes is way much rest time in between the restart of push ups. Like, I feel the rest before continuation should be approximately the same, 2minutes or less to put the muscles back at it, not having them seem to have gotten way much relaxation. My beginner phase at this, I tried some apps that introduced me to different style of push-ups and you wouldn’t find any or I didn’t find any that have that much time in between the series of exercises that was suggested.
Following that standard, 5minutes seems like a lot of rest time when your not finalized in the push ups.
Also, maybe we are just averaging it and you already mentioned the rounds to be between 50 - 80 push ups because, archiving consistency about a definite number like 65 or 125 or some other large set is most likely a difficult go through. Well, it’s not the difficult we are looking at here as that’s what makes it the challenge but, I feel it’s very unlikely as I speak from personal experience and not just due to the challenge but, even before this.
Sometimes, my I try to beat a number but, I can’t do that at the expense of straining my arm or sustaining some injury so, my muscles decide when it’s enough to take a break. Perhaps I had 65 push-ups in mind, around 50+ push-ups, my muscles could get so tensed that, I could go down and not come back up. Am sure many of us have gotten to that point and in most cases, I either lay flat or push my ass up (sure that doesn’t count, just a get up strategy) and afterwards, I could take a break and drink some water.
As your energy level depletes as you go, so also the number you could do for a round or session.
Aaaha in my today WOD at the CrossFit gym it includes almost 100 deficit and normal push ups
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I had to look up. Deficit pushups.. and yeah looks like more range of motion and purposefully slow on the way down, so it would be more difficult than a regular standard pushup.
So you are doing a combination of regular and deficit pushups that add up to "almost 100"? I suppose if you mix them then it is not as hard than if you were ONLY going to do the deficit pushups... so then the question might be whether you are going to do pushups daily or just on the days of your crossfit?
I sure did search out most of the keywords as used here except for linking deficit with push-ups and that’s where I couldn’t come up to make a lot of sense about this. Still, it’s got to be some difficult and challenging approach. Slowing it down, to feel yourself pushing through. Speed has been some of the means to achieve higher numbers and along the line, you eventually find yourself being slowed down.