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runningsilver Posts: 2 Joined: 2006/10/05	2006/10/07, 12:24 AM I can do 30 push-ups to the maximum, but I want to be able to do at least 50.. is there someway I could increase my strength?
SFGiantsMVP Posts: 1,533 Joined: 2005/12/04	2006/10/07, 12:48 AM Bench Press or put a weight on your back while downing push-up then after a few weeks you'll do more without the weight! Bottom line is if you want strenght you need to lift weights! I did the push up pull -up only thing for about 10 years or longer and was anti lifting weights and guess what. All the pull ups and push -up in the world didn't get me strong.
	2006/10/07, 04:05 AM To increase muscular endurance you can do 10 sets of 10 for example with 30 sec rest between sets....as u improve u can cut the rest time by few sec until u can do all of them with no rest.... 100 push ups is not exactly a good definition of strength....it's like running a marathon to test your sprinting ability....
bb1fit Posts: 11,105 Joined: 2001/06/30	2006/10/07, 12:04 PM Strength comes from properly overloading a muscle so it has to adapt to heavier loads, thus get stronger. You have to add resistance to the load to increase strength. -------------- Maximus from Gladiator....Strength and Honor!
runningsilver Posts: 2 Joined: 2006/10/05	2006/10/07, 10:10 PM ============ Quoting from menace3000: To increase muscular endurance you can do 10 sets of 10 for example with 30 sec rest between sets....as u improve u can cut the rest time by few sec until u can do all of them with no rest.... 100 push ups is not exactly a good definition of strength....it's like running a marathon to test your sprinting ability.... ============= lol, well I guess not, but I need to be able to do 100 push-ups to acheive "platinum" on my fitness level test next summer
	2006/10/07, 10:26 PM runningsilver do what you gotta do....there are still some archaic standards of strength used by many organizations....