Slowly progressing, hitting the gym possibly next week so stay tuned for the gains!

I've been doing 100 pushups a day since the May and I have seen massive gains in my triceps and chest that I even got accused of taking steroids.

My routine in the beginning was to do 10 sets. In the beginning it was really hard to do all 10 sets without taking progressively longer breaks each time, that it would take me 20 minutes in total to get 100 pushups down. Eventually after a month, I was able to do 100 pushups in 10 minutes. Now, I've started the 100 pushups in 5 minutes challenge, and I'm not there yet but close since I've been able to do 90 pushups. It's insane how I only started doing 20 knee pushups every other day in april since I was so weak. But now I can pump out close to a 100 pushups in 5 minutes every single day. All in about 3 months.

Here are some concerns I will address if you plan on doing the program

Don't you need to take rest days

I don't ever feel sore the next day. My arms may feel 10% tired in the morning, but not the same kind of pain when being sore. If you have a certain base level of strength, you shouldn't be extremely sore and your body should eventually adapt. I think the problem with some people doing this challenge is that they attempt it without having any foundation. Like if you can't even do 5 real pushups in a row, I suggest you working on getting 10 pushups in a row before trying to do 100 pushups. Like I said, I was first only able to do 20 knee pushups and only started the 100 pushups a day challenge when I did 30 pushups in a row. Ironically, when I took a rest day I felt that I got weaker, as if my body was so used to doing pushups everyday and wanted it.

Will doing lots of pushups wear out your joints

Not necessarily. If you have poor technique, that will wear out your joints. Also, if you have poor muscle imbalance like weak rotator cuff muscles, I think you may wear out your joints. But that has to do with the fact that your muscles are imbalanced and not necessarily because you are doing a lot of pushups. If you plan on doing 100 pushups in the long term I recommend doing 50 pullups as well. I've been doing this challenge for 3 months and I don't feel any joint point or had any injury. Ironically, I've only gotten injured from attempting other things like lifting weights.

If you want to get big, should you lift weights instead of doing a lot of pushups

Most people are not trying to be mr olympia and doing pushups is more than enough to get a good physique. To make the program more challenging, you can try to do more reps in a shorter amount of time, have shorter breaks, have more reps in a set, harder variation. The people doing calisthenics in the park and prison are proof that you don't need to lift weights to be ripped.

How should you do your pushups and how should you feel after every workout

I do every pushup with perfect form. I don't do the fake pushups nonsense where I go as low or high as I want. I make sure my chest touches the ground and arm straightens back up for the full range of motion. If you don't do the full range of motion and try to cheat more reps you are only cheating yourself. Every time I do this challenge, by the 5th set out of 10, my whole body is already shaking on the last 3-5 reps but I still manage to complete the full range of motion and I repeat this again for the last 5 sets which shows how hard you have to push yourself if you want gains. This is the most important part of the challenge. If the intensity is not there, you are not getting enough stimulus on the muscle, therefore weaker hypertrophy response.

If you have more questions, comment in the post and I will answer.

Form isnt perfect or ideal, as I just hit 300pu twenty minutes before this. Also my girls 5 cats, 🐈 😻 🐈‍⬛️ seemingly trying to get my attention lol 😆. Goodnight everyone! (Goodmorning for most).. Make sure to hit your 100! No excuses... Get it 💪👏!!! Btw: (Sorry for no pants lolol)..

I started a few months ago at 335 and I’m down to 290. Been in the gym daily but I think the pushups are a big part of it too. Could barely do 25 reps initially now we are repping them out! 4 sets of 25 daily regardless of what the workout split is that day.

Edit: the first video is around 320 lbs and when I first started tracking pushups. The difference between videos is one month exactly.

As an older guy with plenty of life experiance and injuries, watch out for shoulder injuries. At one point in my life I was training hard towards a goal and doing hundreds of pushups a day. I injured my rotator cuff. The lesson learned for me is never go deep. If you go too low with your pushups to the point where your upper arm (Humorous) goes beyond paralell to your body, you are straining your shoulder. It's kind of counter intuitive but the same goes for bench press. Just keep your upper arm paralell with the floor and next to your body, never behind you. At the end of the movement keep your elbow pointing at your heel, and never let your elbow point any farther rearward than that. Good luck!

I started doing 100 daily pushups back on August 18.

When I’d done that for 30 days I said to myself - let’s do 120/day! That wasn’t a large difference and I did that for 30 days as well.

On October 17 I stepped it up and started doing 200 pushups per day. All strict, with my feet up on a chair for added resistance.

Today, after 17 days of 200/day, I realized that means I’ve done 10,000 pushups in total! This is over 77 days in total.

I’m going to keep on doing 200/day until I’ve done it for 30 days (13 more days), after that I haven’t decided yet.

At the beginning of this year I was a weak as 12 year old who barely was able to do 5 Pushups at once and on top of that I looked like a stick figure ngl. I So I locked in. Started small but consistent and did different exercises for different body parts. I especially focused on Pushup and every more than a month the number of daily Pushups went up. First it was 30 then 50 then 80 and since 2.5 months 100. I went from one of the weakest to probably the strongest in my class. Eventually I was technically stronger than then the football star twins in my class and my arms look sooo much better. I also got myself a pull up bar in the middle of the journey and here are my prs:

40 Pushup Pr

50 Pushup Pr (with a little pause in between)

25 Pullup Pr

I hope for the people that question if this 100 pushup a day thing will be worth it. Yeeesss it f-ing will!

Edit: Ty soo much for Award

Would like some form advice. Been doing 4 sets of 25 for about a month now. I keep putting my feet up higher when it starts to feel easy.

Hanging out at my mom's house this week, and trying to keep up the routine.

Currently stuck at 50, but we’ll get there

is this usefull ?

So me and my boys made a new years resolution to do 1 pushup every day for a week, and then each week, we add one more.

Just one more.

So week one, we did 1 pushup every day M-F for the week. Laughably easy. Just one.
Week two, we did 2 pushups each day, M-F all week long.
Week three, 3 pushups a day, etc.

And we all always have to have a witness, one of us, that we did them or it doesn't count. I think this part was key to sticking with it.

The thinking here was that at the end of the year, we'd be doing 52 pushups, and we'd never even realize that we were putting forth any effort, because it would be so slow of an increase, our bodies would just acclimatize to the minuscule increases in effort...

However, this week is 35 pushups, and the "we won't even notice the effort" is not quite the case. It actually IS some effort - but we're actually doing it!

The boys and I couldn't do 20 pushups in a row to save our lives before this.

Now we're doing our 35 and we're all like, "yeah, I could have done 1 or 2 more" which gives us continued hope for the next week.

At this point, while I now know it will feel like effort, I'm confident the strength will be there. Should be at about 50 pushups for this Christmas, and for Christmas 2027, we will - God willing - be opening up a can of 100 pushups.

Thought maybe this might inspire somebody, or some families/friends to make the pushup pact, improve your health, and maybe bring each other a little closer together.

And then I collapsed. FFUUUUUUUUUUUUU

Something my dad used to tell me as a kid to get to this goal is while watching tv every commercial break knockout 10-15. U’ll get to 100 in no time. Also have started to implement in-between sets at the gym.

Well, I certainly applaud anyone wanting to do a hundred pushups, but take it from this old gym rat, I've spent my entire adult life in the gym, and a program like this one can do more harm than good.

If you only train one part of your body (and that's all a single exercise like pushups is going to do for you), you're setting yourself up for injuries down the road. I've seen it a hundred times.

It's like putting a powerful engine in a stock Toyota Tercel. What will you accomplish? You'll blow out the drive train, the clutch, the transmission, etc., because those factory parts aren't designed to handle the power of an engine much more powerful than the factory installed engine.

Push-ups basically only train the chest muscles and to some extent, the triceps. What you really want to do is train your entire body, all the major muscle groups (chest, back, abdomen, legs, shoulders and arms) at the same time, over the course of a workout. And don't forget your cardiovascular work!

I'm proud of you guys wanting to do this. Three cheers! Falling in love with exercise, eating right, etc., is one of the greatest things you can do for yourself. And you WILL fall in love with it if you can just force yourself to stick with it a year or two and experience the amazing progress you'll make.

But do it right, okay?

My advice, find a good gym, with qualified trainers who will design your programs for you (especially in the beginning, until you get the hang of it yourself) and guide you in your quest for physical fitness. Thirty to 45 minutes a day, three days a week, is all you'll ever need to do (I refuse to believe anyone is so busy that he or she cannot make time for that, especially considering how important it is).

And don't worry about being embarrassed or not being in shape the first time you walk into the gym. You have to start somewhere and almost every one of us were there ourselves at one time. So no one will say anything to you and very, very quickly you will progress way beyond that stage anyway.

Now get out there and do it! :-)

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I’m 44 and just did 250 pushups in 1 hour. Wanted to see how many I could do my last hour at work. Couldn’t do a single more. I tried, hit my face. Felt great

Probably a dumb question, but do you guys do 100 push ups in one session? Or can it be f.e. 50 in the morning (2x 25 ) and same in the evening

My goal right now is go through August

I did 100 pushups. I’ll be doing them MWF so I just got mine done. Did you?

Edit: I said do instead of did in the first sentence. D’oh