How I made 110 pushups tougher than 500 today, 28 pull-ups tougher than …
- ... well, I didnt decide. Hehe.

… I dont know about an exact number for the pull-ups, but … “than 50” I’d say.

And, how 5 hammer grip pull-ups can be tougher than 15 done super quick!

When you do any exercise super quick, or quick, even WITH focus on form – proper form – the form will be a bit off compared to if you do them super slow mo.

And yesterday – well, it was a super tough workout day – 500 plus pushups, 500 plus club swings, roadswings, 100 squats (and stretches) – and 35 + pull-ups.

Super tough, I’ve been going like that for a while now, certainly on the pushups – 500 daily for over a month now, and today, I felt it – in the CNS.

Central Nervous System

Now, before I continue on here, let me preface everything I am saying or will say here with something I’ve always said, always will say.

High rep workouts are KING, and you should never ignore them, and you should do them preferably daily.

There is a very good reason boxers pound out 500 pushups a day without fail – in addition to all else they do.

There is a reason Phelps swam 14 hours a day – daily.

And it ain’t just that they have time to do it …

Its the physical benefits of putting your body through the grind day in and day out – without fail.

Some so called gurus will tell you this harms your body, does the tendons more harm than good.

Fooey.

At the ripe ole age of 42, years of hill climbs, high rep workouts behind me, and I keep improving, in better shape every year – I call fooey upon that, the only way it can and will injure you is if you do them in poor FORM.

Form, my friend, is key.

And back to the central nervous system and high reps – the corollary to what I said above?

“Not everyone is Mike Tyson”, for instance (and I dont mean just ability and talent).

I mean – elite athletes have a job.

Thats to be an elite athlete.

Prisoners in prison look like elite athletes despite their crappy nutrition and why?

Super hard work is one reason, but the other is they have no other responsibilities other than to train – and in prison, if you dont train hard, you’re someone’s bitch, simple.

So there’s two very basic reasons.

YOU, on the other hand are likely neither in jail nor an elite athlete.

Working jobs, managing multiple businesses, or wives, hehe – families – it all takes a toll on you.

When your daughter is up coughing daily till 3 AM in the morning, for one, when your new born wont let you sleep, and so forth, plenty of other reasons – not excuses – for you to feel a bit depleted, especially if you’ve been hitting it hard and heavy.

Some days, you’ll see you’re just not up to those high rep workouts.

Its different, you’ll feel it, not being “lazy”.

Yet, you do NOT do what most would in this situation ie “Rest up”

You hit it hard.

With the knowledge that a) super high reps are not ALWAYS required for a solid superior workout – and b) the principles of what are sometimes referred to as “co contraction”.

Look, I did some videos on this today – focusing on form for pushups – done SLOWLY – FEELING the muscles as you go down, and really increasing the difficulty of the pushup while keeping every muscle as tight as possible and in alignment as it should be.

Done that way, I can make 10 pushups harder than a 100 if I so choose.

Contract the legs. keep the back straight, and so forth, but what I really focused upon was two main things – one, move the hands closer to the WAIST.

Most people do pushups with hands underneath their shoulders, which is not really the way to do them.

Do ’em like when you first start, ideally though they should be at chest level or lower, and NO, you do NOT look down, you look straight ahead while doing ’em.

YES, you go all the way down and all the way back up.

And – you focus on the shoulder blades to make it tougher!

Penny pinching, as I once wrote about, except here it’s good. Hehe.

You do the same with pull-ups – and today’s workout, well, best described as intense as usual, but took less time overall and … definitely lesser reps, and my triceps are STILL sore, not just from yesterday but today as well.

Before I send you to the videos, let me again say – this shouldn’t be an excuse for lazy asses to say “500 pushups are useless” – or 400 or 300 or whatever the number might be. They ain’t either.

But sometimes, you switch things up – when your nervous system gets burnt out from super high reps etc, you’ll know yourself.

It happens.

Hey.

When writing Battletank Shoulders, I was doing high rep handstand pushups and pull-ups for ages – like three or four months straight.

“You do nothing but train!” my friend remarked.

Yes, to an extent at the time he was right, yet even then, I eventually switched things up.

Or, before that – my daily four hour hill hikes in hot humid weather – without fail, sometimes more than four.

Eventually, even Mr Advanced Hill Training burnt out on that …

Without further ado, here you go – enjoy!

 

 

And, I’ll be back soon.

Best

Rahul Mookerjee

PS – If you haven’t yet gotten Pushup Central now what are you waiting for? Get it NOW, my friend, nothing like pushups to WHIP you- SMOKE you – into shape – nigh FAST!

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