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Press-up regression

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original82

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Hi All,

I'm in the process of joining the RAF and have been putting some serious time in on the fitness side. Run = fine; sit-ups = fine. However, during the past week or so my ability to do press-ups seems to have disappeared. In the last two months I've gone from literally 0 up to 22 in a minute, so you can see that at the moment I've not got much room to spare.

Any hints/tips/reasons why I've hit a plateau and am regressing and what to do to get back on track?

Many thanks in advance.
 
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NotAnIDOYet

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original82 said:
Hi All,

I'm in the process of joining the RAF and have been putting some serious time in on the fitness side. Run = fine; sit-ups = fine. However, during the past week or so my ability to do press-ups seems to have disappeared. In the last two months I've gone from literally 0 up to 22 in a minute, so you can see that at the moment I've not got much room to spare.

Any hints/tips/reasons why I've hit a plateau and am regressing and what to do to get back on track?

Many thanks in advance.
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Are you having rest days to allow muscle recovery?

Try working in sets, start with 10, 8, 6, 4 then a final set to failure
 
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original82

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Thanks for the reply.

I've been doing this: http://www.hundredpushups.com/index.html

I have a day in between each workout for the given week and then two days before doing a max rep test. I've got up to week four (after having to repeat week 1 and then repeating week 3). And now I seem to be going backwards whilst repeating week 4.
 
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Mag2grid

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I did that programme while I was at the Depot, if you've got a good standard of press up it works. You do need to give time for muscles to recover, also ensure you are getting enough protein to build/ repair your muscles or the programme will fall on its ass.
 
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Mag2grid

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Not too much, if you do all you'll do is loose a lot of it when you urinate, unused excessive protein just gets filtered by the kidneys and dumped.
 
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