How come some people can do like 300 or 500 push-ups a day?

[oniham]

I've talked to my friend who is a bodybuilder and idealy what you want to do is to get 2 days of rest in the week of not working out so your body can rest and start to build muscle.

[sukhenkoy]

i disagree with all yall mofos, one day in one day off(sometimes 2 days off). you need to rest because when you do, you are way more stronger. i did 180 perfect push ups and 80 pullups in about 15-20 minutes, thats after i rested for 2 days. Rest is key and a mind intense workout. Why dont i believe most of you guys 1000 pushups a day without rest? cut it out!

I only did 1000+ pushups in a day once, or at most, two times a week. The next day I would go down to 300 or a little more as my rest. I have been doing pushups for a while so I do not feel sore from not doing my 300+ a day. In fact, if I didn't do them, I started to feel like **** mentally and fatigued physically.

I'm not one of those posters that does 1000 pushups a day, because I don't. But pushups have always been a staple of my workouts and therefore it might seem like I do a lot compared to someone who barely does them, or is just starting to do them.

[Dynamite Glove]

I have to be concerned, though. If you think the pain from doing pushups is "OMG so ****ing bad," boxing is probably not your sport. What happens to you in the ring is gonna hurt ten times worse.

What is pain?

[Dynamite Glove]

Even if you can do 1000 pushups a day, it really doesn't correlate to punch power. Punches come from the toes...not the chest. Now if you wanna get right up on someone and wing hooks, even here, the chest might play 15-20 percent of the 'punch pie' .... Foot placement/legs are easily 60% of your punch power, back/midsection 20%, upper body 20% ...all those pushups is only gonna make it harder for you to cover up and easier for your opponent to give you a Ricky Hatton coup-de-grace, and no, that doesn't mean 4 pints...

Ricky Hatton coup de grace- clinch, step out to the right or left and have a big looping body shot coming right up the middle, low, as you exit the clinch, ricky liked to step out to his right and then delve in that liver shot

[MKultra]

Even if you can do 1000 pushups a day, it really doesn't correlate to punch power. Punches come from the toes...not the chest. Now if you wanna get right up on someone and wing hooks, even here, the chest might play 15-20 percent of the 'punch pie' .... Foot placement/legs are easily 60% of your punch power, back/midsection 20%, upper body 20% ...all those pushups is only gonna make it harder for you to cover up and easier for your opponent to give you a Ricky Hatton coup-de-grace, and no, that doesn't mean 4 pints...

Ricky Hatton coup de grace- clinch, step out to the right or left and have a big looping body shot coming right up the middle, low, as you exit the clinch, ricky liked to step out to his right and then delve in that liver shot

Why must you try to sound like you know what your talking about in every post who said anything about power? Pushups are for conditioning your shoulders so you can throw more than 20 punches a round without dying. Are you really discouraging someone from doing pushups????!!! Pushups are essential, name a boxer that doesn't do pushups. Conditioned shoulders will make it harder for you to cover it up omg please stop. By your videos you obviously dont know what pushups or any form of conditioning/cardio are.

[Chip2006uk]

Pushups are a bit of a ballache for me, I seem to progress really really slowly with them whereas with pullups I progress really fast, somedays I even seem to do worse with the pushups compared to the last time.

[Unknown Champ]

I did 400 perfect pushups with total ease today, i have been doin the P90x ab ripper x every other day, and my overall strength has boosted ridiculously. i feel super fast too.

[RightCross94]

I don't do many push ups these days tbh.....In fact i dont do much strength work at all, just lots of fitness such as sprints, running etc and all my boxing stuff like sparring bagwork

[RightCross94]

I'm going to need to do more strength work in the future though, im only 15 now but all the top olympic guys do strength training so i'm going to need to do more, but where i'm at now i haven't been doing much at all and i've been going alright.

[Spartacus Sully]

Push ups are good but worthless if you know that you can do other things. they really only play an importance when your a gym trainer and you have 20 people and you need to give them something to do for the next 10 mins.

but really if your not being forced into doing them by some lazy trainer, id reccomend pull ups, and shrugs to cover almost all the same muscles as push ups. I would also recommend some back bends for increased strength in your intercostals but its not really necessary.