/fit/ - Fitness, Health, and Feels

The best is a barbell with weight on it, being moved by the muscles you want to strengthen.

Try to waste your time asking stupid questions when you can at least do 50 reps. You can do them on fists or fingertips to strenghten them as a bonus.

After that, they're still good to maintain your body, but benching becomes way more time productive.

>>146385

I can do about 20 push ups before I can't anymore. After that, it dwindles with the next set like 17, 12,….

>>146385

also what's the cheapest benching set up?

>>146389

A gym membership

>>146391

I'd feel weird walking in there with no idea of what I was doing.

>>146392

Then buy a book about form, Jesus Christ. What the hell was your plan here? Get on your personal bench at home and hope you don't end up tearing your shoulder apart or cracking your skull?

>>146393

Honestly yeah, I'd rather take my chances

>>146394

So you're willing to put down a sizeable chunk of change for equipment you admittedly don't know how to use, to do a singular exercise that's probably the most dangerous one in any gym, alone, and probably with bad form that will render the exercise much less effective.

All this rather than reading a book and going somewhere with people who will help you for free.

>>146395

So there are trainers in the gym on standby?

>>146396

There are people at the gym who are friendly. I wish gyms were like Planet Fitness portrays them, but fortunately for you it's a really rather friendly place.

I typically do 5 sets of pushups every morning. I do 5 of everything because its best for building muscle.

For pushups its between 20-50 reps each depending on what kind and how I do them and what speed and position.

OP is a high time preference faggot. Danish bro is correct. Try 'Starting Strength' for bench and then start going to the gym when you know what you are doing until you make lifting friends to spot you. such a faggy thread, could have gone about this much differently, replied anyway because I had similar wonders at the start. Not sure how scientific, I trained push ups and simple calisthenics in my teens and my cousin didn't, there was a big difference between us despite being so similar. You should be bored and find simple calisthenics easy before entering a gym, try and get some 15 or 20 lb weights to add to some calisthenics movements like your squats so you don't arrive at gym and only lift bitch weights when you could have stayed home and not wasted the time at the gym. /eat/, skellys are scientifically known to over estimate how much they consume, while fatties under estimate, just try to do it with animal fats and avoid sugars like excessive beer and fast food, but the initial dirty bulk might work faster to escape skelly mode.

>>146378

So you’re not gonna get big arms and chest from pushups, but if you want to be able to do a lot I would suggest focusing on form first. Make sure your body stays in a generally straight line, hit your chest on the ground on each rep, and go all the way up ( fully extend elbows). This method that I’m about to tell you works, just make sure you focus on quality over quantity. You’ll get the quantity part of you stick to it. This is the Stew Smith method; Test yourself to see how many pushups you can do in one set, ex 40. Take your max and multiply it by 4 ex 160, and do that many pushups throughout the day. When you’re doing your daily sets try to do as many as you can before failure for each set. The Stew Smith method works for pullups as well. Since pushups are a muscular endurance exercise, it’s easy to lose progress to a certain extent if you stop doing them regularly. Also a good little push-up workout is trying to (even if you can’t yet) do 50 in one set, resing only in the push-up position and not getting up until you hit 50. Another thing you can do are Pushup drills. For push-up drills you’ll be doing 4 sets of as many pushups as you can in a set amount of time, with the time going down for each set, ex 2 mins 1.5 mins 1 min 30 sec. Benching does help with pushups, it’s basically the same movement even though one exercise is for pure strength and the other is for endurance. The heavier you can bench the easier a push-up will be.

>>146389

1. pull up bar

2. gymnastic rings to hang on the pull up bar

my advice: just skip benching altogether and do dips (into weighted dips) as your main chest press exercise. as an accessory or alt, do diamond pushups or handstand pushups (which requires progressions)

>>146393

listen, if you agree that benching can be dangerous for the lay-man, why not just recommend skipping the bench altogether?

there's only two things that are not replaceable: squats and deadlifts, which he could absolutely do at home with a barbell set.

>>146378

1- pseudo planche push ups, you can lower your hands more and more to make them harder

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=odcPqBOlJhI

2- Elevated push ups: elevate your feet on chair, table, etc… to make them harder

3- Put weight on your back and do push ups

4- Handstand push up: works more the upper chest

Hindu push ups or dive bomber push ups.

Special forces use dive bomber push up to get into shape and strong quick.

>>146378

These people are confusing you op.

Heres how to master pushups:

Set a date to be a master (about a year)

Do pushups every other day of the week to program your mind into a routine.

Start off small but use the calisthenics chart to get steadily harder over the year.

Half way thru u should easily do one hand pushups (at least 20)

Always do 5 set and week by week do more reps per set (5, 10, 15, 20)

Start with wall pushups then move to incline, then regular then decline then handstand pushups.

Progress should almost happen in a single week, especially if you work hard and stick to your routine, and take an extra day per week for just resting.

Incremental progressive overload is key, and good nutrition will make u a beast.

If you do the Evil Russian Push Up 2 week program you'll add at least an inch to your chest. I added 2.5 and they stuck. That's at least an inch even if I measured wrong. I'm a beast though. I didn't even do the push ups every time; when it got real difficult in the second week I would skip push up sets.

>>146378

Do harder and harder variations. If you can already crank 10+ pushups for 3 sets with ease, move to close (diamond) pushups, incline, and so on.

You'd be surprised at the amount of strength you can put up with such simple bodyweight movements alone.

>>146378

Do 250 push-ups a day. On A days do it in as little sets as possible with as little time in between sets as possible. On B days do them throughout the day.

>>147409

Oh, you can only do 25 reps. Don't do 250, do 100 instead. Evil Russian is better but more complicated. The military website has some good workouts too.

>>146386

Do twenty, take a five minute break, then do 15-20