100 Hundred Pushup Program

Restored from the Empower Network archive (2011–2017), lightly edited to meet our current advertising standards. Views are the original author’s.

Having a fit and muscular body will not only attract the ladies (and some jealous men) but will also give you the opportunity of living a longer life. It’s no surprise that the more fit and healthier you are, the longer you are able to live because you are taking care of your body.

Being fit reduces the risk of developing diabetes and other diseases that are harmful for the body. You do not want to spend the rest of your life monitoring your sugar in take just because you developed diabetes. The best part about doing the 100 pushup program is that it will get you fit and into shape. Best of all, it’s free. All you need is yourself and the determination to do pushups. Determination is the key to success because if you’re not determined and motivated to do pushups, you will never be able to get stronger.

Doctors recommend that people in general should do something active for at least an hour a day. Not only will you be obeying your doctor’s healthy tips, you will be able to get in shape while increasing your muscle mass. The effects of doing pushups are that it works your forearms, shoulders, and upper arms. All in all it increases your upper body strength. Do you want to be able to lift more weights? Do pushups. Do you want to be stronger? Do pushups.

If you aren’t convinced that doing a simple pushup will make you stronger than you are now, then maybe telling you that a former NFL player Herschel Walker has said that doing pushups everyday maintained his shape for NFL games. When the United States army trains their soldiers to get into shape, they order them to do consecutive pushups. If the thousands of soldiers that fight for us in wars use pushups as a way to get in shape, it is going to work for us.

The perfect pushup consists of having your back and legs in a straight line while having your hands shoulder-width apart. If you maintain this posture throughout the 100 pushup program, you will notice the results. Your muscle mass on your upper body is bigger than it usually had been and you feel good about yourself. You’ll know if you’re not using the right posture if doing the pushups is too easy for you. The easiest way to check your posture is doing pushups in front of the mirror or having a friend and come watch you do pushups.

If you cheat your way through this program by not trying to maintain a perfect posture, expect to not see results at the end. Remember that the only person you’re cheating from whenever you try to take the easy way out of this is you. You’re preventing yourself from becoming stronger and being in better shape.

If I go on about the benefits of doing pushups, I may start to sound redundant but that’s what pushups do. People have a hard time believing this because they believe that having expensive equipment is the key to having a bigger muscle mass. This is nowhere close to being true. How will you be able to lift the expensive equipment when you can’t even lift your own body weight?

Doing pushups is only the beginning of getting stronger. Once you can easily do pushups, you can start lifting heavier weights to further increase your muscle mass but doing a simple pushups on a daily basis will yield the same result as a person who visits the gym.