The Sit Up and Push Up Routine Thread.

[ShoulderRoll]

Jerome Le Banner was a kickboxer but this is a nice little routine of pushups and sit ups, along with some stretches and a few other exercises.

Easy to do almost anywhere.

[BennyST]

Thought I would add some inspiration to get those crazy ab workouts going hard!

One quick note: one of my favourite ab exercises is something I just call V's. I don't know what they're called and I don't often see them done by that many fighters. Different versions of it though yes. You start lying flat on your back, arms stretched straight above your head. You then bring your legs up, completely straight, and your body and arms to form a V and touch your hands to the top of your shoes/shins.

It's a great explosive core workout, and then great to try and stay up there in the V position on the last rep for as long as possible. Pretty killer exercise.

Anyway, on to the Pac ab workout.


An extra one that is inspired by the Pac routine. This guy has lots of boxing training vids in general that you can check out.

[Boxfan83]

What I like to do is to do my push ups under a pull up bar. I start my first set of push ups wide, do mountain climbers, than jump up and do wide pull ups, than I get down do regular push ups, mountain climbers, than jump up and do regular pullups, than I do diamond push ups, mountain climbers, than chin-ups. I repeat this from the beginning non stop til I burn out. Start off reps where you feel comfortable but its a good full body workout especially if you are short like me and have to jump for the pull up bar each time lol

[stephenmc]

In our gym..most of the time after our warm up run we will do.
20 push ups
20 burpees
20 situps
X5
Why do we do it/? Cause that's what were told haha...
Nah their is no point in weights and all that stuff...the only weights that should be I a boxing gym is small hand weights..and maybe ankle weights 2..thats all that is needed..
Pushups can test your bodies limit without damaging yourself..when your hands start shaking you know your pushing yourself..
Burpees are also real good to mix in with your pushup routine as it also builds up the arms although you might not think it...

Doing pushups and all that stuff, you benefit from I the ring, if you push yourself doing pushups,your arms are getting stronger..your not going to drop yours hands as quick I the ring!

[ShoulderRoll]

Short but effective pushup workout. Very challenging.

[MrMayhem]

Meh. I do too many pushups a day to really count. Sit ups i usually start with a pilates exercise called the 100 it does wonders as a base core exercise, and everything else just becomes easier.

[Roy Jones Jnr]

How do you guys feel about dips? I don't box but I do regular weight training and I've found dips are the most important part of my chest exercise. I hit chest twice a week. The first day I hit it I do 5 sets of 10 dips where I lean forward as much as possible so I really feel it on my chest. The second time I do it that week I wear a weighted belt of 50 pounds and do 3 sets of 8. I've seen the best results for chest doing dips. It's really made it thicker overall and given me that nice seperated look up top. I've also noticed it's made me much stronger than when I was only doing weights.

I did dips a while back regularly but stopped once i started getting some slight chest pain. At the time i had heard it could be from the dips but i paid no attention to it. Started doing them again a few months ago and lo and behold started getting that tight feeling at the top of my chest again, and for some reason this time around it took much longer for the pain to go away after i stopped doing them.

Anyone else that got similar pain from dips?

Stopped doing them now, back to strictly push ups.

[Mr.MojoRisin']

I use to do 3 sets of push ups to failure. I got to the point where 3 sets of 90 was the norm. It definitely added a lot of strength because after doing them for a couple of months I saw a 21% increase in my bench press.

For abs, I do 3 sets of 50 reps leg extensions where I lay on my back and extend legs fully, then super-set with another 50 reps of leg raises for a total of 300 reps with 1 minute in between. I do this every other day.