I did two sets of 75 pushups the other night, and frankly I was disappointed.
Range of motion was near full range, good enough in my eyes, but I was legitimately pissed that it took effort to get to 75 each time.
Not failure, but just starting to get challenging, I had done each set as intended – a set through without pause.
75 was the pause point both times.
See, I’ve done so many pushups, past 100 per set numerous times, enough so that 75 per set seems a poor performance in my eyes.
I recall in jrotc that I’d be so used to relatively low reps, up to say 40, that I’d worry about the PT test, be doing volume like a madman for a week or two precedingly, then do well on the test, performing better under pressure than training had led me to believe I would.
(That would be something like 80 in two minutes – worse than the performances I’m unhappy about in the present.)
See, pushups are an exercise simple to improve.
Just keep upping your regular performance ability, and your all out rep ability will go up.
Fairly fast at that.
I’ve been doing sets really no higher than 35 per set.
Okay, I can more than double it when I go for it, but that’s not good enough.
I’m the guy who was hitting damn near 120 in 60.
120 pushups in 60 seconds!
Think about that ability a moment.
Yeah that’s reps for time, I’d still be solid performing in that manner, you can strategize, while reps til pause is different, but only 75 – I’m not happy with that.
I’d slacked by not putting in effort, not doing challenging sets for my pushup PT!