Leaving for bootcamp,weighted pushups?

[Titansgymflunky]

Hey I'm leaving for bootcamp in january and I'm trainign for it big time.At my last Pt meet I did 117 sit ups in 2 minutes, 101 push ups in 2 minutes, and ran my mile and a half in just over 10 mins. But my question is, will weighted push ups really be beneficial, or should i just keep doing what I'm doing? I bought a 25 lb plate from wally world and tried push ups with it on my back, they were alot harder of course, but are they really gona help me or am I hurting myself here?

 

[Gazhole]

Unless youll be doing weighted pushups, there might not be a reason to start doing them to be honest. If they just want you to do a load of them with just your bodyweight they best way to train for them is to do them, yknow?

What will you need to do at bootcamp, specifically?

 

[KeenanB13]

To my understanding you do them and do them and do them ect and you build up how many you can do for example, you start out at 25 then 50 then 100 then 200 ect, you do them until you can't. The thing is you have to increase on them otherwise you are just maintaining strength, and when you get to those higher numbers and don't want to have to do 400 or 500 push ups in a day you can try some weighted push ups and not have to do as many and get the same results, basically you are just wanting to exhaust the muscle anyways, so it doesn't matter how you do it.

 

[Witchblade]

Good for variety, but you should mainly work on endurance. You could also try some explosive push-ups.

 

[KickNit]

What branch are you going into? Sounds like the Navy if you are running a mile-and-a-half.

The best thing to do is to keep doing what you're doing. Sounds like you're fit enough right now to meet the standards of the military. That is, if you are doing the exercises correctly. But you're better off training the way that you will be training in basic training.

 

[CowPimp]

I absolutely think it's a good idea. It's a form of progression that should improve absolute strength with the pushup maneuver, which will in turn make bodyweight pushups lower intensity. That means you should be able to do more pushups.

 

[Titansgymflunky]

Thanks, Sorry I havent been home much to reply, I was thinking along the same lines as cow pimp when i decided to start doing them with weights on.Oh and sorry I forgot to mention it bove,yup you're right kick, its the Navy.
I think the required amount for age 18-20 is like 62 sit ups and 51 pushups but ideally they want you to do 100 sit ups and 67 push ups, so I'vemet the minimum, I just want to go overkill so I can get close to the top of my class, and be a excersise leader in bootcamp. I dont know if it works the same in thenavy, but in the Army if you graduate atthe topof your class you get a much better chance of getting where you choose to go. Thanks everybody, I think I'll try to get my weighted push ups to where my body weight ones are now.I have 3 months before I leave so even if the weighted push ups dont do as well for me, I'll have enough time to improve the numbers I can do withmy body weight. Thanks again everyone. Oh and the recruiter stands over us at dep pt meets and makes sure we do them to navy standards (which are a little slack, so I just do my pushups the correct way on my own time so that when I am at a meet the slack ones are easy.)

 

[KickNit]

I dont know if it works the same in thenavy, but in the Army if you graduate atthe topof your class you get a much better chance of getting where you choose to go.

It is absolutely that way in the Army. I don't know abut the Navy. I do believe the Army's standards are stiffer. Still, the stronger you are overall, the more it will help you in the long run.

 

[Titansgymflunky]

Yea, I didnt do Army or marines because of all the shit going on in the middle east, I dont wana be in somebodies Rocket launcher sights or walkin around a bunch of old suspicious looking cars.Lol and I cant wait to pimp my popeye hat.Thanks for all your feedback, I appreciate it yall.

 

[KickNit]

Yea, I didnt do Army or marines because of all the shit going on in the middle east, I dont wana be in somebodies Rocket launcher sights or walkin around a bunch of old suspicious looking cars.Lol and I cant wait to pimp my popeye hat.Thanks for all your feedback, I appreciate it yall.

Hey, don't get your hopes up. I joined the National Guard for the same reason. Then I found myself in Iraq in 2005.

 

[Titansgymflunky]

Well yea i guesse theres always a chance I could go over there, seing as how Iheard they've started using using "sand sailors".lol that blows, but I'm sure they'd much rather have someone over there with more intense combat training. Navy isnt a ground force, thats where my reasoning is coming from. If anything i have a much higher chance of being in the persian gulf then actually playing in the sand.

 

[Titansgymflunky]

That sucks though, what was that like, not trying to make you remember bad memories or be nosy, but it must have been a totally dif experience than anythign you were used to.

 

[vortrit]

Well yea i guesse theres always a chance I could go over there, seing as how Iheard they've started using using "sand sailors".lol that blows, but I'm sure they'd much rather have someone over there with more intense combat training. Navy isnt a ground force, thats where my reasoning is coming from. If anything i have a much higher chance of being in the persian gulf then actually playing in the sand.

Probably not, but Marines don't have their own medics, they use the Navy Corman's, so sometimes Navy people get attached to Marine units.

 

[Titansgymflunky]

I wanted to be involved with the medical corpsman stuff, but I got offered Air traffic control and took that rate, its going to be good for when i get out. Oh and i just did my 1st workout with the weight.110 push ups with it on and 100 with it off. those regular pushups are light afterwards, but my arms were really taxed out, so they were still hard.