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Anonymous
1. It's not a plan for strength. If you're strong enough to do three or four pushups, doing 100 isn't going to make you more than marginally stronger. It will just give you more endurance. You get stronger by lifting progressively heavier things, or increasing the resistance in some other way. Of course, as you get stronger you will be able to do plenty of pushups as a side effect.
2. If you can do twice the number of pushups intended per set, you should be working on a later week. The rest period is there to let you recuperate for the next set. If you don't need to recuperate at all between sets, you should move to a more challenging workout.
3. Protein, and lots of it.
4. You'll probably get better results if you skip ahead to a week that challenges you more, and follow the plan more as prescribed. Five sets of pushups, if you're doing them in appropriate volume, should be enough for the day, and you should be glad to have a day off in between.
And again, this is not really a strength building program. If you want to do 100 pushups that's a fine goal and you should do it, but if more strength is what you're after, something like Rippetoe's 3x5 would be more appropriate to your goals. Strength is gained by lifting heavy things a few times, rather than doing things you've mastered over and over again.
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