How many push ups should an adult male do? At one time, consecutively. Also how many in one day, to see result

Question

Basically how many push ups should I do at a time to see postive growth? Or how many reps/sets/ x's/day

THANKS

Answer 1

52 Pushups in 2 minutes is the Army standard.

Answer 2

It depends on your age, physical endurance, diet and other physical activities you do. Ideally speaking 5 sets of 20 push ups a day are good enough for an average, healthy adult from 20 years to 45. After 45 these should be gradually reduced to 50 (10 x 5 sets).

Answer 3

50

Answer 4

Maintenance is 40 push-ups a day. 20 in the morning 20 at night.

Answer 5

depends on the person. you will never get huge by doing push ups. but if thats all you can do. i would do as many as you could by doing sets. say 4 sets of 25 starting. then move up 5 each week. finially you will be doing more than you want.

Answer 6

52 is the Army minimum standard. 82 is the max. I would say a minimum of 30 in sets of 4 or 5.

Answer 7

I do about 500 daily (you should 5 sets of 100 throughought the day)

Answer 8

Take a look at the Navy standards.
http://usmilitary.about.com/od/navy/l/blnavyfitness.htm

Answer 9

You haven't given us any indication of your age which is important or what you are trying to achieve. Obviously, you don't want to become the fittest corpse in the cemetery?

Answer 10

Well.....Im fifteen and I do 100 straihgt through........before I go to bed....and I also do 100 slow crunvhes and Im seeing very nice results and Ive been doing these for about a month