Killeen Temple Fort Hood

Listen up, if you think you can't get strong or explosive doing pushups, your crazy.

If you listen to all the media or the so called athletes you may believe that the bench press is better than the pushup.

The truth is that you will use more muscles doing pushups than you will doing bench presses.

The bench press has limits- the pushup has no limits, there are so many different types of pushups that can be done- and most people don't have a clue.

If you can do over 100 pushups in a row, that is excellent, and you have great muscular endurance, but to build strength you will have to work a little different.

You need to do pushups that are very challenging, pushups that will keep the reps low, like one arm pushups, handstand pushups, feet elevated one arm pushups, deck one arm pushups, etc.

And I'm not talking about one arm twisting your body or having your body in the shape of the letter Y pushups these types are easy.

I'm talking about legs close together and no twisting of the body or crossing one leg and doing one arm pushups.

These are not for weak men, but for the strong.

Here is a version you could try:

Get a phone book, now lay down on your stomach.

Now place the phone book under the hand you are going to do the pushup with- now from the ground push as hard as you can, keeping your body straight this is 1 rep try several sets of 3 to 5 sets.

John Grube is an expert on the subject of bodyweight training. He has over 25 years of training experience and is the author of The Wildman Training Program manual. For more info http://www.wildmantraining.com.