do pushups differ?

[gymnastjess]

Does say doing 30 pushups in one go every day for a month have the same effect as doing 10 pushups at 3 different times during the day for a month? greater or less? thanks

 

[kflipz]

yes, my coach always told me during competition season to do less numbers of push ups, but do more sets of them, and in the summer less sets and more numbers. Ex: summer push ups: 1 set of 30, Competition: 3 sets of 10. In the summer he wants me to get endurance and strength and get stronger, which will make you sore where as during competition season you are just maintaining the shape you are in.

 

[gymnastjess]

HAHA thanks that's good because it's summer here in AUS and i have been doing like 40 in one go haha . thanks again

 

[gymnastjess]

I actually wanted to know weather they differ in terms of making you stronger not whether they will make you sore haha

 

[BlairBob]

30 pushups in one set is different than 3 sets of 10 pushups.

30 pushups would mean the athlete has more pushup endurance and possibly strength.

 

[gymnastjess]

so doing 30 pushups in one go has a better effect of making you stronger than 3 sets of ten?

 

[BlairBob]

In most cases, yes.

 

[wordsmith]

I actually wanted to know weather they differ in terms of making you stronger not whether they will make you sore haha

If doing a single set of 10 pushups is easy, then spreading out 30 pushups into 3 sets of 10 through the course of the day is a waste of time, imo. Minimizing the rest time between sets matters. So 3 sets of 10 with a 10 second rest in between them is different than 3 sets done breakfast, lunch, and at dinner.

Think of it this way: Will doing 365 pushups get you stronger? If you did them in the space of 5 minutes, for your average person, most likely you will get stronger. But what if you spread them out through the course of the year? That's one push-up per day. Think you'll get stronger this way?

Really, it's the last few reps when it gets hard and you begin to struggle that matter. If you can do a hundred pushups in one go, but don't feel the effects of fatigue until the last 10 or 20 reps, stopping at 90 or 80 short of having to actually sweat and work hard...you're not going to make effective strength gains. Doing 33 push ups 3 times a day will not have the same effect as 100 push ups all at once if 33 push-ups is like nothing to you.

 

[gymnastjess]

haha thanks i do about 50 now without stopping one time a day after about 40 it burns haah i dont want to get lots and lots stronger just a little bit thanks heaps