John Peterson
07-23-2010, 12:34 PM
Hey Friends,
I received a couple of questions today that deserve an answer.
A "man" wrote, "John, I've been following your posts about Atlas III Push-Ups. Correct me if I am wrong but you say that you perform 300 Atlas III Push-Ups every day but that twice each week you do two or three times that number on your 'High Volume Days'. So that is somewhere between 600 and 900 on your high volume days. So I have two questions for you. My first question is, do you think that you might get even better results if you cut your Push-Up days to just the two high volume days each week? And my second question is, for someone like me that is just breaking into a Push-Up program should I be performing Push-Ups every day or every other day? I have one book on Push-Up training that says to perform them every other day for best results.
Answer#1): I train Push-Ups every day and do not feel that I personally get as good of a result if I train less frequently. My view is that by training them daily I have kept my cardio and muscular endurance at a very high level and have maintained a much higher lung capacity as a result. I believe that my 'daily training' has enhanced my high volume days in a big way. My actual goal with Atlas III Push-Ups is to perform 10 or more sets on my High Volume days of 100 to 150 or more per set. I really like the endorphin rush that I am currently achieving with this program.And get this, on my 300 rep days the Push-Ups of late have felt much easier to perform. So for me the answer is every day training is what I thrive on and I will not change it.
Answer#2): James, I don't know the answer to your second question. It may be that you would get great results every other day. It may also be that you would get great results training every day and achieve a higher level of conditioning as a result. I know that Herschel Walker the former great Pro Football Running Back performs 1,500 Push-Ups each day at age 48 and when he competed in Mixed Martial Arts competition earlier this year EVERYONE and I do mean EVERYONE including trainers, doctors, participants and viewers were awed by this man's extraordinary level of conditioning and he had the best physique of any man competing. Bottom line: Push-ups when properly performed do not beat up your joints and connective tissues the way that weights and machines do. Sill, the the only man that can know for sure what will work best for you is Y-O-U! You can discover your answer by experimenting and documenting your results each day. I'd recommend that you spend three weeks performing Push-Ups every other day. Document exactly how you feel before, during, and after your workouts and also how you feel on each of the intervening days between. Then take it a step further. After three weeks step it up to everyday. Once again, document daily. at the end of six weeks compare your journal entries. I'm sure that you will see patterns emerging.
---John Peterson
I received a couple of questions today that deserve an answer.
A "man" wrote, "John, I've been following your posts about Atlas III Push-Ups. Correct me if I am wrong but you say that you perform 300 Atlas III Push-Ups every day but that twice each week you do two or three times that number on your 'High Volume Days'. So that is somewhere between 600 and 900 on your high volume days. So I have two questions for you. My first question is, do you think that you might get even better results if you cut your Push-Up days to just the two high volume days each week? And my second question is, for someone like me that is just breaking into a Push-Up program should I be performing Push-Ups every day or every other day? I have one book on Push-Up training that says to perform them every other day for best results.
Answer#1): I train Push-Ups every day and do not feel that I personally get as good of a result if I train less frequently. My view is that by training them daily I have kept my cardio and muscular endurance at a very high level and have maintained a much higher lung capacity as a result. I believe that my 'daily training' has enhanced my high volume days in a big way. My actual goal with Atlas III Push-Ups is to perform 10 or more sets on my High Volume days of 100 to 150 or more per set. I really like the endorphin rush that I am currently achieving with this program.And get this, on my 300 rep days the Push-Ups of late have felt much easier to perform. So for me the answer is every day training is what I thrive on and I will not change it.
Answer#2): James, I don't know the answer to your second question. It may be that you would get great results every other day. It may also be that you would get great results training every day and achieve a higher level of conditioning as a result. I know that Herschel Walker the former great Pro Football Running Back performs 1,500 Push-Ups each day at age 48 and when he competed in Mixed Martial Arts competition earlier this year EVERYONE and I do mean EVERYONE including trainers, doctors, participants and viewers were awed by this man's extraordinary level of conditioning and he had the best physique of any man competing. Bottom line: Push-ups when properly performed do not beat up your joints and connective tissues the way that weights and machines do. Sill, the the only man that can know for sure what will work best for you is Y-O-U! You can discover your answer by experimenting and documenting your results each day. I'd recommend that you spend three weeks performing Push-Ups every other day. Document exactly how you feel before, during, and after your workouts and also how you feel on each of the intervening days between. Then take it a step further. After three weeks step it up to everyday. Once again, document daily. at the end of six weeks compare your journal entries. I'm sure that you will see patterns emerging.
---John Peterson