How SEALFIT Trains the Push Up

[@vetteluvnh]

Been doing 100 push ups/day for the past 3 weeks & was looking for something to kick it up a notch other than just adding more reps. -Nailed it! Thank you SEALFIT.

[@MandenTV]

Dennis Tucker have you felt burnt out doing them? I've been wanting to do a daily push-up program of 100-300 but nervous about burning myself out and just killing any gains with strength or endurance that I could get.

[@alexadam8906]

Just Do It

[@MrScar665]

Fascist it's actually dumb idea. You need rest

[@frankyalvarez7160]

Do seals have rest. 4hours! Per day.

[@garychap8384]

Any challenge that requires a little discipline and involves routine is good. I was a 240lbs unfit potato with dull chest-pains at 47. I started walking 10mi/day... managed some 17mi walks and even managed 22.8mi in a single day (2 sessions) ... this got me below 210lbs in just 2 1/2 months. I was averaging a 50mi week at a lazy 3.5mph Then I switched to doing 5miles over 1 hr, twice a day. morning (fasted) and evening (before bed) and the gain was even more than doing slow 15-17mile walks. I even took a rest week and still lost good weight (charged up metabolism I guess) Now I'm also on the 100 PU/Day challenge - I did the first 3 weeks with a 14" incline (pushing 60kg of my body weight) then on the flat and in good form, pushing 75kg of bodyweight. I'm down to 180lbs now and just feeling really good about myself, sleeping better, eating better... cut out sugar and red meat... quit smoking... concentration and mood are much better! I can really recommend the 100 PU/Day challenge. I've made up my own, similar, challenge for chinups although I can only do negatives right now... but that's okay, everything I've done regularly enough has become so much easier. I'll probably be ready to do positives in a few weeks and then work back up to 100 on those: ) Not looking to be 'swole' ... just still be alive and mobile when I'm 70 : ) Before I started exercising I was suffering Anxiety due to autism and hadn't left the house at all in about 7 years. All my food was takeaway deliveries and I was smoking 30 a day. Chest pains and came up pre-diabetic after a blood test ... now my chest pains are gone completely and my blood workup came back clear. It's pretty spectacular the results you can get when you challenge yourself and just go for it. A whole lifestyle change is the way to go, it breaks all your patterns at once and sets up new ones : ))))))

[@bbarker5766]

This is an awesome video! Thanks for posting this and it really is a motivational thing as well. I'm a disabled vet that tried to stay active but in 2014 I had a double bypass and that really kicked my ass. I gain weight like crazy and have been fighting to get back to a better lifestyle and fitness level again. I think this will help me get going and progressing as well as getting my kids to do the workout plan with me. Thanks for posting!!

[@filhosdeabraao402]

Excelent teacher!!! God bless him!!!

[@vijayshan3804]

Awesome video! Thank you :) I've been doing them wrong all this time. But not anymore

[@ziontkiii56]

Nice, great tips. Dylan is already condition with pushups, for a big guy, he can lift himself easy, good job. Only a matter of time before he gets in great shape.

[@khylagrant358]

Finally, I know how to do a proper push up.

[@bacfu]

This rocks time to read my Seal Fit book.great post .Hooyah!!

[@fitnessgurunumberonefitnes4654]

I appreciate your service and wisdom sir thank you!

[@SunYunJason]

Tabata is supposed to :30 rounds x 8 rounds. The rounds can be broken up differently depending on your starting level and exercise. The most common breakdown is 20/10, then 15/15, or 10/20, but you can weird with it 18/12, 14/16, 5/25, etc...... thrusters for 8 rounds is the worst (or best :)

[@somyirizarry2481]

Awesome

[@stephenbrandel924]

HOOYAH!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[@djpaulmadden9009]

I agree!! Great video... Well done!!

[@ThothTheAtlanteanK]

Nice. Very helpful

[@rbergevine]

Fantastic video. Thanks.

[@joelrosado8284]

Great explanation

[@davidchavez4026]

My goal is 100 push up, and 100 situps pr push ups 85 and sit up 90. Any tips?

[@AwesomeAlexAdam]

Gr8 informative video I Love Push Ups Liked and Subd

[@SuburbanPreparedness]

Does anybody know this instructors name and who he is?

[@marcramirez2093]

woaw man dont get to excited. nah thats great info you just gave. while i started highschool out of now where i did the plyo push up. i just didnt know what it was called till this day so thats very much for that. in highschool i was doing push ups, and i started pushing my whole body off the ground (playo push up). then this other kid came a long and started doing regular clapping push ups and it looked like everyone was more impressed by the regular clapping push ups and they were down grading my plyo push ups. i wasnt even bothered by it. i just found it fucking weird.

[@oscar-nl]

Great video! Really clear on the form and variations to get the max out of pushup training. A question that I have is do you have any tips on how to keep the muscle balance in the upper body. I have always been doing a lot of pushups and this caused me to have my shoulders come forward. How do you guys prevent this from happening or fix this problem. Especially within the SEALS for example, do they stretch the pactoral muscles or train the upper back etc..?

[@Pavel9419]

Stretch your chest, shoulders, lats and biceps. Strengthen your rear delts, rhomboids, upper and lower traps, and generally your upper back.

[@karldavidignacio9526]

Hoyahh!!

[@OrcaTri]

Hi guys, thanks for the video. This might have been asked already, so sorry if I missed the answer. Why is it actually bad to have your elbows stick out to the side? Does it cause damage to any structure? Are the (muscle)results not as good? What is the reason? Thanks in advance

[@Buriuz]

as he said in the video. A lot of people get shoulder injuries etc. by doing the pushups where the elbows stick out to the side.. :)

[@gordonowen719]

Heh I have the seal PST score at optimum levels exept the swim (borderline minimum) anybody wanna give me tips on how not to get tired quickly (my problem) when swimming( I do the combat sidestroke)

[@isaacwhite4174]

stew smith has a great video on uping stamina and speed for the combat sidestroke,......basically what you do is mix your freestyle with your css,....if its too hard at first just break it down and do do a smaller cooldown and warm-up, but eventually work-up to 2000 meters dude, this workout really helped me get faster and build stamina and i hope it helps you as well bro, good luck! 50m freestyle at 8-10 strokes per breath and 50m CSS at goal pace x 10 sets =1000m swim workout. Add in some 5x100m intervals and a 500m warmup and cooldown for a good 2000m workout to get faster at the CSS kzbin.info/www/bejne/bWW2ZoSYgZ50mbc Show less REPLY

[@skyofstorms]

Relax and realize that you will float when you're on your side. That was the one thing that helped me through swimming when I was training at the Y. Also try to get into a rhythm.

[@masonmcmanus8112]

gekko wow me and you both dude going for the gaurantee

[@sr.million2983]

i swim a 8:45 that came down from an 11 something. after i realized length in the body and big pulls is my friend, the seconds started coming off. hope that helps!

[@ryanlewis3280]

Heres a tip, change your picture

[@sirsir9665]

Doing the push ups to fast. The muscles aren't getting enough resistance that way and they won't grow or gain strength nearly as fast.

[@sealfit]

You are correct that doing slower push ups, or even eccentric push ups, will develop muscle and strength. However during our events we have participants do a PST and they only have 2:00 minutes to perform as many push ups a possible. When performing for the PST its good to use as little energy and drop quickly as you can on the way down. We appreciate the comment Sir Sir and you bring up a really valid point.

[@bbarker5766]

If you have aomeone just starting out or getting back into training I believe this can help them progress a lot quicker than doing them how described at first. Excellent point though and agree with you that's why I appreciated how they went through a complete range to help everyone from beginners to advanced training.

[@rogerrobertsseal]

I will challenge Mark Devine or any of his so called instructors to pull-ups or push-ups. Go to specwarfitness and see the way a former Navy SEAL Instructors techniques work. .

[@BadNewsLexis]

The only easy pushup was the last one.

[@garychap8384]

Disappointed that there was no discussion of the muscle group differences in each of the variations that might recommend one over the another in specific cases. So, lots of seemingly arbitrary choices but no reasoning or rationale : /

[@Jacob-qt6oe]

14.55 minutes and no explanation on scapula position

[@SuperColonel91]

Kinda Looks Like Matt Damon

[@justsomeamerican2301]

I want to be a seal , but seal training requires that I do thousands of push-ups a day . But I can't do 10 push ups ,pls help (wall push-ups =ineffective/ knee push-ups are for low effort commies ) . Also how do I increase my running endurance .

[@azharsofjan9181]

A fine Murican Start with baby steps bro, try atleast something like 3 a day for a week but do them properly like shown in the video then gradually increase the number of push ups later on. Also for running endurance there's a certain "right way" to run better and there's literally lots of videos about that.

[@jabooky15]

If you do 10 push-ups today, do 11 tomorrow, then do 12 the next day etc. I used to only be able to do 3-4 pull-ups at a time and 20 push-ups at a time and I just added one more a day and I got it up to 20 pull-ups easily and sets of 80 push-ups, I could do more but those are what I do with perfect form, same goes for running, don't try to run a long distance in a short time, just try to run long distances no matter how long it takes so if you work your way up to running 8 miles in an hour and a half, you'll be able to basically sprint 4 miles, also for the first week of adding one more push-up a day, you're gonna be in a decent amount of pain lol which is normal but if you're getting pains in your shoulders wrists then stop and take some time off but your chest and possibly your abs will be hurting, also what the guy said above me about running, watch videos on how to run properly, it shows you breathing techniques and proper form that will def help you, good luck with becoming a seal bro, stay positive always!!!!!

[@garychap8384]

Fine Murcian, I was a 240lbs fatty with arms like a girl... literally wasted away due to autism and anxiety (7 years without leaving the house and only eating delivery + smoking 30 a day) I'd get gassed just going up the stairs. But I managed to get down to 210 with a daily 10mi+ walking regime. A friend mentioned the 100 Push-Ups per day challenge... I did the low plank on a weight scale and found I was an almost 80kg lift. No way I could do that without tearing something. So, I used a bench and measured my plank again at 14" incline ... that was a 60kg lift and I could manage 4 reps. A few minutes later I managed 2 ... and after about 10 minutes I managed 3. This seemed about right, Challenging, but possible to build to 100 a day. I started a 100 PU/Day challenge and decided that I was allowed one 30 second break in a set. The first day I repped : 5 10 10 5 10 5 5 10 5 5 = 70 (all day) The second day I repped : 20 10 10 10 20 10 10 = 90 (all day) By the end of the first week I was repping 5 sets of 20 per day, completing most of them by lunchtime. It's actually amazing just how much progress you can make in a relatively short period of time. Eating right is important though! I continued that for another week and then moved to regular (non-inclined) push-ups and restarted the 100 push-ups challenge. First day was all 5s and 10s (If you hit an 8 and gas out, call it a 7 ... take a moment to get some air and shake your arms out, then hit another 4 and call it 3 ... those 2 lost in 'overlaps' are your 'punishment' for not hitting your target in one go) Now I'm hitting 5 reps of 20's every day, COMFORTABLY, and I'm keeping that up for 28 out of 31 days. My morning rep is (20+20) with nothing but a quick stand-up and shake-out in between, less than 30 seconds. I'm doing the same thing with chin-ups. Right now I cannot do a single chin-up, it's embarrassing! ... but so what? If all I can manage are negatives (or, as I call them 'let-downs) then I'm going to do those till I hit 100 a day, in however many reps it takes. Soon enough I'll be able to restart with proper chin-ups and work back up to 100 on those... then concentrate them into 5x20's So ... here's a plan... Stage 1 - Find a challenging simplification (inclines, negatives, whatever) 1a - Work up to 100 a day 1b - Work up to 5x20s 1c - Keep to 5x20 every day till you have managed it for 10 of the previous 14 (or 28 of the previous 31) Stage 2 - Now start the standard exercise 2a - Work back up to 100 a day 2b - Tighten up to 5x20 as before 2c - Keep to 5x20 every day till you have managed it for 10 of the previous 14 (or 28 of the previous 31) Stage 3 - Start a 100/day challenge 3a - Habitualise the regime for 4 weeks, every day (or at least 28 out of 31 days) ... if you want to factor in rest-days to aid recovery and growth - do it! You make the rules, it's your challenge. Now you've got new muscle growth you can look at challenging variations such as inclines. Remember to keep a daily record. Also, once one exercise moves to stage-2, consider starting another muscle group on stage-1 ... I did Push-Ups's first and then added Chin-Ups for example. While you're doing this it may help to have a run twice a day as this will keep your metabolism nice and high and help boost your growth in other areas. My point is, if I can do it at 47 years old and a recently obese chain-smoker, you certainly can! It's just a case of starting a strict regime, breaking it down into achievable sections if required, and sticking to it all the way. Every time, progress has always been much faster than I expected : )

[@johnconlon2207]

@@garychap8384 Good work on your progress. Nutrition also important for training and mood. Will make the training even better. You would not have imagined your own progress at the beginning. Your advice on progression is excellent.

[@jbentley-xt8oi]

This man needs a cup of water...... Drink water and move on......

[@koliomolio4008]

When your partner's doing pushups just edit yourself out of the picture and keep narrating. That way is just a bit unpleasant to watch guys watching each other and mundaning thru the training