Health & Fit This Guy Did 100 Pushups Every Day for a Month

YouTuber MattDoesFitness is best known for his series of fitness challenges, which saw him taking on the Navy SEALS fitness test (and failing), the US Army fitness test (and failing), and pole dancing (that’s, well, subjective). Typically we, the viewers, get to learn from his failure. Often the lesson is that even the most carefully sculpted bodybuilder—which Matt is—can have some areas for improvement.

Following his attempt at the US Army fitness test, Matt realized that one of his weak points was pushups (he calls them pressups, as the move is known in the U.K.). If you’re nodding your head in agreement, check out this pushup progression to help you improve. Disappointed in his performance, he decided to test himself, realizing he could only do 46 pushups in a row. So he set himself a goal: 100 push-ups a day for the next 30 days (he previously did a 30-day, 100 situps a day challenge). And, of course, he made a video about it.

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“I feel awesome. I'm the leanest I’ve ever been.” “The support and guidance from the First in Nutrition family was instrumental in my transformation,” he says, “because it was one-part learning resource and another part support group.” Since he’s changed his diet, his blood pressure has gone down, along with his resting heart rate; he sleeps better and feels revitalized. Most importantly, he says, “I have energy to play with my son and enjoy being active with the family.

The point of this video was just to encourage you guys and girls to do some type of physical activity every day even if it's just 5 minutes of walking.

This video is about my pushups that I do every other day for 1 year subscribe to watch my weekly videos. I started out doing 5 sets of 8 reps currently

© MattDoesFitness - YouTube YouTuber MattDoesFitness wanted to improve his pushup performance, so he took on a challenge to perform 100 reps every day for 30 days.

Matt started out by setting some rules. He did his best to keep good form, but admits he probably fudged one-third to a half of his pushups. Need a form check yourself? Check out our pushup guide.

He did them the same time every day, giving him 24 hours recovery time—which he admits was not ideal. And he didn’t stop working his chest during the 30-day challenge, either—he didn’t want to skip those workouts for a month.

So what did he learn? When he started, he could do 46 pushups at once, so it took him two more sets to hit the required 100. On day 30, he could do 61 in his first set, and it still took him two more to hit triple digits. His performance didn’t improve that much, in other words. Matt concluded that pushups are a convenient way for beginners to build muscle, but to keep making progress, he'd recommend that beginners add some resistance training to their repertoire and begin lifting weights.

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Women's Health's Next Fitness Star Selena Watkins, the woman behind the boredom-beating High-Intensity Dance Cardio DVD, has some crazy-easy ideas for a fun workout.For total-body sessions, Selena likes to keep things fresh by picking a particular area to concentrate on for one full song. So, say it's triceps. You can choose one move or a few, but either way, you keep doing reps until the track is over. Knowing that you have only three-ish minutes until you're done with that muscle group for the day can help you push through anything.

After finishing my 100 pushups a day for 30 day challenge, I just kept on going. Now I am at a I am no longer doing 100 pushups a day , but now exceed over 500 on many days without it Hope this video gives you a clear demonstration how pushups every day can effect and transform your body.

Looking back, 100 pushups a day for a guy that spends an hour in the gym 5 days a week doesn’t sounds like it would do that much. The goal is to get stronger by doing more and more pushups every day . It doesn’t matter if it takes you a week, a month , or a year to do 100 pushups in a day .

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