Wednesday, August 19, 2015

975 Reps

Today I wanted to see if I could do 500 reps each for pushups, rows and squats.  That's really a lot when you start to think about it.  I shot for sets of 25 of each with less than strict form.  I ended up with 325 reps for each exercise.  That's 975 total reps.  Volume.

Pushup: 30, 25, 20, 25, 25, 25, 25, 25, 25, 25, 25, 25, 25
Squat: 20, 25, 30, 25, 25, 25, 25, 25, 25, 25, 25, 25, 25
Row: 25, 25, 25, 25, 25, 25, 25, 25, 25, 25, 25, 25, 25

This was tough and daunting.  I think it's an extreme version of the full day muscle blast.  I wouldn't recommend you do it very often.  But we'll see what the effect is.  Herschel Walker claims to do several thousand pushups a day and I wonder how that is even possible.

Doing this as made me become more interested in form versus volume.  I bet I could get a much better workout on many many fewer reps if I focus on form.

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