Gym Homework : One Million Pushups As Mandatory PT

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.

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