[rEdShawks]

Originally Posted by mike p

YIKES!

It looks like we have something to work toward here:

World Records for Push-Ups

For those who don't want to click the link:

WORLD RECORDS

non-stop: 10,507; Minoru Yoshida (***), Oct 1980 DETAILS

one year: 1,500,230; Paddy Doyle (GBR), Oct 1988 - Oct 1989

24 hours: 46,001; Charles Servizio (USA), 24/25 April 1993 at Hesperia
(new record claim, not yet verified: Jeffrey Warrick (USA), 46300)

1 hour: 3,877; Bijender Singh (IND), 20 Sept 1988 DETAILS AND NATIONAL RECORDS

30 minutes: 2,354; Rolf Heck (GER), 13 Nov 2000

10 minutes (women): 426; Renata Hamplová (TCH), Rekord-Klub SAXONIA Record Festival in Schwedt, 2 Sept 1995

5 minutes: 441; Giuseppe Cusano (GBR), Loftus Road Soccer Stadium at the Fulham v. Portsmouth game on 24 Nov 2003

3 minutes (women): 190; Renata Hamplová (TCH), Record Festival Pelhrimov 1995

one minute: Record claims up to 199 in one minute have been made. We do, however, not continue to publish these record claims, because it became impossible to judge about the correctness of the exercises at this speed.

one-armed, one week (168 hours): 16,723; Paddy Doyle (GBR), Feb 1996 in Birmingham

one-armed, 5 hours: 8,794; Paddy Doyle (GBR), 12 Feb 1996 in Birmingham

one-armed, 1 hour: 2521; Paddy Doyle (GBR), 12 Feb 1990 in Birmingham

one-armed, 30 minutes: 1382; Doug Pruden (CAN), 30 July 2003 at the Body Quest Health Club Edmonton

one-armed, 10 minutes: 546; Doug Pruden (CAN), 30 July 2003 at the Body Quest Health Club Edmonton

one-armed, on back of hands, one hour: 677; Doug Pruden (CAN) at the Body Quest Health Club Edmonton, 9 Nov 2005

one-handed handstand pushups: Yury Tikhonovich (Russia) did twelve pushups while standing on one hand in June 2006 at the Starclub variete in Kassel (Germany). He repeats this feat almost every day in the rehearsal for his show VIDEO (AVI, 1.3 MB)

on fists: 5557 (in 3:02:30 hours), Doug Pruden (CAN), 9 July 2004, Body Quest Health Club Edmonton

1000 pushups on fists: 18:13 minutes, Doug Pruden (CAN), 9 July 2003 at the Body Quest Health Club Edmonton

on back of hands, 15 minutes: 627; Paddy Doyle (GBR), 8 November 2007, Stamina's Boxing Self Defence Gym, Erdington, Birmingham RECORD HISTORY

on back of hands, 30 minutes: 1386; Paddy Doyle (GBR), 8 November 2007, Stamina's Boxing Self Defence Gym, Erdington, Birmingham RECORD HISTORY

on back of hands, 1 hour: 1940; Paddy Doyle (GBR), 8 November 2007, Stamina's Boxing Self Defence Gym, Erdington, Birmingham RECORD HISTORY

finger-tips, 5 hours: 8,200; Terry Cole (GBR), 11 May 1996 in Walthamstow

one finger: 124 Paul Lynch (GBR), 21 April 1992 in London

100 push-ups with feet at a 80 cm [2 ft 7 1/2 in] high table: 45.7 sec; Roy Berger (CAN), 24 Feb 2001 in Ottawa

with a 50 lb [22.68 kg] plate weight on his back: 4,100: Paddy Doyle (GBR), 28 May 1987 in Birmingham

with hands on raw eggs: 112; Johann Schneider (AUT) / a video can be downloaded here as Quicktime video (1.2 MB) or AVI video (1.4 MB)

4 hr relay (team of 10): 14907; Gatwick Airport Fire Service (Andrew Horstead, Clwyd Jones, Stuart Coxhill, Steven Bartlett, Jerramy Davison, Darryl Graham, Albert Lawson, Luke Philpott, Darren Hollman, Ian Mclean, Great Britain) at 18 November 2005 at Gatwick Airport

whats the lifetime record

[shredfighter1]

I did 64 in one minute for each.

[bjj_ninja]

one thing to keep in mind is form. a real push up is all the way up and all the way down with your back straight like a board. I see guys bang out 25 push up sets but they are either humping the ground with their hips or going down 1/4 the way. Going through the full range of motion might get you less pushups at first, but it will make you stronger and able to do more in the long run.

[bjj_ninja]

one thing to keep in mind is form. a real push up is all the way up and all the way down with your back straight like a board. I see guys bang out 25 push up sets but they are either humping the ground with their hips or going down 1/4 the way. Going through the full range of motion might get you less pushups at first, but it will make you stronger and able to do more in the long run.

Not that I am a badass push up master, but if you're gonna put the time into something you should do it right

[DrBdan]

Originally Posted by bjj_ninja

one thing to keep in mind is form. a real push up is all the way up and all the way down with your back straight like a board. I see guys bang out 25 push up sets but they are either humping the ground with their hips or going down 1/4 the way. Going through the full range of motion might get you less pushups at first, but it will make you stronger and able to do more in the long run.

Not that I am a badass push up master, but if you're gonna put the time into something you should do it right

QFT. I see this all the time in my Muay Thai class. At first I thought I was weak because we'd be skipping and the instructor would tell us to drop and do 20 push-ups. I'd be at like 15 and almost everyone else would be done. I mentioned this to my friend and he told me to watch other people. I did, and it turns out that while maybe 1/2 of the class does them properly the rest do 1/2 push-ups, hump the ground or do them on their knees. Made me feel better and also makes me wonder what the other people are thinking.

[ahheadlock]

49

man i suck, something to work on i guess.

can't do full range sit-ups (back injury) so i'll just worry about the push ups.

[Yerdaddy]

Tried P-Us fresh this time = 42. Will get 44 next week and shoot for 50 by the end of the month. I want to rule the Old Fart's Division. Who here is 39 or over?

[Reev]

ok now correct me if i am wrong but i was always told that doing pushups fast is only doing half a pushup.(I can only assume that they are being done fast because of the one minute time limit.) The reason i was told this was because at the start u basically just fall down then push yourself up.

So you are only getting positive force on your pushup and none of the negative. Anyways any input on this would be appreciated.

Ok i am editing this post to further clarify the point i am tryin to make. I am not knocking this thread in anyway etc. What i am really tryin to ask is would it be better(for strength etc.) to do the pushups fast or slow and controlled? As in say one second up one second down. Maybe doing both kinds to develop explosive power would be beneficial?

Discuss.

[CdnFIGHTER]

you get a better workout for going slower and more controlled, but doing them fast and in control is ok, they are called push ups for a reason.!!

[stewy37]

Train fast, but train controlled. That's a general rule you should follow. Explode on the positive, and go as fast as you can control on the negative. For something like this, you're trying to get the most work done as possible in a short period of time.

Doing them slow should also be done from time to time, but I wouldn't make it the focus.

As far as getting a better workout, that's dependant on various factors. For example, what you're training for would dictate wether it would be better to bang out 50 fast pushups with good form or do 30 slow ones.
In general though, training fast is better for athletes.