People make physical training out to be this complicated endeavor.
It needn’t be.
I have some advice :
Go out and do a million pushups, then tell me you’re not happy with the build you’re at.
I’m not being facetious, this is a serious suggestion ; go do a million pushups.
At 50,000 a year that’s 20 years to get there.
Though honestly, it’ll come much faster.
I almost wish I knew how many reps I’ve done since I started nightly pushups at 14 years old.
How many pushups have I done in 12 years?
More than a million most likely.
2015 was the only year I ever had a number requirement. And I did far more than the minimum of 1000 a week that I was requiring at the time.
That year contained enough 1000 pushup workouts, while almost always going past the daily minimums that 250,000+ in 2015 had to be the case.
Honestly 500 a day is a manageable number, possible to do in under 10 minutes spread throughout the day, able to be done indefinitely, and which gets you to a million in just under 5½ years.
1000 a day is possible long term as well.
Paddy Doyle averaged about 4110 reps a day to hit 1,500,230 reps in a one year time span for the world record of most pushups in a year.
So the homework has been done in as little as 8 months.
Often at the gym, I’ll just want to do more, so I’ll fill this in with volume pushups.
I still haven’t dived into handstand reps or weighted reps. My training history is deep in vanilla pushups.
Their value, done honestly, over a length of time is immense.
Go do your PT homework.
Persistence & Tenacity