There’s a few ways to go about training weighted pushups.
•with plates
•with bands
•with people
(At the sticking point on the second rep my quads fired extremely hard. It felt like how they should in a military press, the activation was so high that they were cramping when I got up, and felt very well worked hours later. A heavy pushup is not an upper body exercise, it’s full body, that rep even skewed towards the legs.)
With people it’s most challenging when they stand on your back, not sit or lay down on you.
Balance is a big factor.
You could goofing around have the kid standing on you hold some dumbbells. My PR here was my buddy seen above weighing 155, holding a pair of 8lb dumbbells, with a 2.5lb plate resting on his shoes.
173½ el bees that way, I’ve doubled him on a few occasions while he’s weighed between 150 and 160lbs.
My one rep plate PR so far is 180lbs.
Ideally I want to rep out “girl pushups” on video, having two chicks standing on my back for smooth, solid, slow, and controlled double digit reps.
For the time being I do mostly band resisted as that is easy logistically.
I expect to have a solid “girl pushups” video within a year.
That’s how fast the movement progresses in ability.
From 135lb as a 1rm to doubling a 150-160lb standing human in less than a year, with the lockdown, and without much work otherwise.
You want stronger pressing?
No excuses, wed yourself to the band resisted pushups.
I just keep setting rep PRs, up to 6 reps with the big grey band thus far.
I’m tempted to mix band and plate resistance, or human and a small amount of band tension.
And now it sounds like “Westside For Weighted Pushups”.
It’s all good man.
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