Increasing Your Pullups and Pushups

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Increase your pullups and pushups prior to PFT

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[stew50smith]

No - I have been doing this workout since 1995 when I was an instructor at the Naval Academy. I like Pavel's stuff and his "grease the groove" is similar and a great concept. Never borrowed it though...SS

[stew50smith]

Depends on where you started too. If you could only do 10 pushups that is pretty good inprovement. If you could get 60+ when you started you are not going to see that massive of an increase. I have seen people double from 40-50 to 80-100. How did you spend your 3 days recovery period?

[lvrpatriot01]

SEALs!!!

[TUBESTEAKNIG]

I've noticed this one is different than the one on your site and military.com article. the other one has this alternating with the "odd days". which should I do?

[Stearns20]

Should I cut out lifting weights for these ten days?

[JanitorMan432]

Mr. Smith,

First off wanted to say Thank You for your service to NSW and the fitness community. 14 days ago I started you pullup routine. First day did 10 dead hang for my "Max". That day including the next 13 I did 6 sets of 7 reps. (Yes 42 not 40...) Each day I made sure to make each pull-up as quality ones required at past PST's. Today I "re-tested" and my max went up by 70%. Total of 17 dead hangs, thats impressive being 5' 11", 185lbs.

Thank you again for your support.

Reed

[fallllenangel]

i satrted today. my goal is 40 and i will try to do 20x10 for 10 days now. at the moment i did 110/200. i hope it works :)

[deathworm123]

@5graffitiartist5 hey I'm at 16 to and i stared this yesterday and what I'm doing (i heard its what you do also) is start at half your max so 8 for us then keep doing sets of 8 as long as possible and once you get to tired to do that many you go to failure so what i did exactly was 8 8 8 5 4 4 4 (break) 7 7 5 4 hope this helps

[5graffitiartist5]

Question:

lets say i can do 16 pull ups.

so in total i have to do 64, so do i do 1,2,3..63,64 or do i continue from 16 and reach 64 like 16,17,18,...63,64 i hope you understand my question

[JUsTFoRKiXx619]

@myemail987654321 Unless you're using enhancers, your body will always retain the strength and endurance you have accumulated. The reason for this is your body is toughening up to deal with this new found stress it's receiving so that it won't be damaged by that same level of stress again. If you stop your physical training abruptly, your body will eventually lower it's "defenses" as it's no longer necessary in the absence of stress. You'll need to continue training for the effects to stay.

[Thrashvel]

@BLUTONIUMBERRY1 Take it meal by meal.

[BLUTONIUMBERRY1]

Hey Stew Smith, right now this is my turning point towards the end of high school and I've been fascinated with the SEALs since then. I'm fallowing your training tips and it has been very useful. On the other hand, even though I'm preparing myself physically, I don't how to prepare myself mentally. I know that BUD/S is one of the most physically demanding military training in the world, but I really need some useful tips on how to stay motivated if I were to go through the program

[myemail987654321]

I was wondering, is this workout intended to create a permanent increase or just a temporary increase?