3 Minute Pushup Challenge

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I want to share something with you that I think is really cool that I found in the April 2010 (pg. 46) issue of Men's Health Magazine. It's a 3-minute pushup challenge by a really smart guy named Martin Rooney. Martin is a strength coach in New Jersey for MMA guys and pro football players, so he really knows his stuff.

He came up with this 3-minute pushup challenge. Here are the rules:

Do as many pushups as you can in 3 minutes. Do your pushups until you are 2 inches from the floor and perfect form for each one.

When you do your pushups, there is a bit of a strategy with them. When you do your first set, do not go to failure. This is the biggest mistake people make. Just go nice and strong, but only do about 40% of what you can do for your maximum pushups.

I can do 57 pushups in a row, so when I tried this, I just did 20 then took a 15 second rest and so on. In the end, I was able to do 114 pushups. That beats the extraordinary level of 111. You have to get more than 55, because anything lower is below average.

The key is not to go to failure or anywhere near failure. Just go until you start to slow down a little bit and then take a 15 second rest. Then go at them again and do the same amount and rest again. Then expect about a 20% reductions to the end.

Let us know how you do on the YouTube channel!

Take a look in April Men's Health and that will give you the exact categories.


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[LagBringer2011]

In army, i did 50 one hand push up and totally destroyed my competitor's 15 push up. But I couldnt raise my right arm anymore for a week.

[umbraumbrella]

91 pushups... I heard of the challenge before, but i always did until failure. >_<

[russiansoviet11]

ok i only did 97 :(

[kier06]

i done this yesterday for the first time after watching darin steens vid, i got 110 so im pretty pissed that u said i have to do 111 to be extraordinary! WTF 1 rep out hahahaha aiming for 120 next week :)

[ellpod]

i didn't have a stopwatch so i used my ipod and that was trippin out on me like going to a different screen, so i couldn't see if the time stopped or was going. I pulled out 54:(

[PunkyLemming]

have about non stop for 3 mins..

[Gi21FF1n]

89 on my first try..I didn't have a clue on any method. I just did as many as I could in 1 minute. I think I got like 40 or something. Then just did as many as I could after that taking 10-20 second rests.

[jdjacks04]

@Fukitall123 lets see it, I've posted vid responses to Darins Steens challange on my channel. Eat your words Fukitall LOL

please tell me when you post it

[jdjacks04]

Take a look at my channel, I did a response to Darin Steens 3 min challenge. 2 vids but I didnt use this advice. I'll have to do a third vid using this technique

105 first vid

109 second vid

[ryanguitar1]

went from 75 to 105 almost instantly just on that simple advice