Robert S. Maher Blog: The Pushup Extravaganza Workout

Monday, June 12, 2017

The Pushup Extravaganza Workout

There are many reasons why you may want to have stronger arms :

Say hello to your neighbor with more fervor
Pet your dog with more passion
Hold more limes
etc

Whatever your reasons are, this workout is all about monstrifying your arms and your general upper body region.

The workout starts with some pull ups, just to get you tired, then hit you with a barrage of pushups.

Can you survive?

Watch my friend Anand killing it doing a round of the workout:

Can you do it better?

INSTRUCTIONS

Do each exercise until failure, rest for 30 seconds, then move to the next exercise. Once you finish one round, rest for 40-50 seconds. Do 4 total rounds.

EXERCISES

ADVANCED MODIFICATIONS

Can you do close grip pull ups? If yes, do those instead, they’ll hit your arms more than regular pull ups.
Replace barbwire push ups with a more advanced push up variation, like the one arm push up.

BEGINNER MODIFICATIONS

If you struggle to do a pull up, you can do assisted pull ups, by having a chair underneath you to offset some of your weight.
For wide push ups, just have your hands as wider than shoulder width as possible, it doesn’t have to be exactly “wide.”
The same goes for triangle push ups, just put your hands as close as possible, they don’t have to touch.