I read about the "Texas Pushup Challenge" in the three challenges workout and after having my hand at it personally and also having just about every other male in the gym try it, I realized quickly there needs to be some standardization in this thing.

I wanted to get this thing done with no rest standing or in pushup position, I got through 8 reps at 1:14 and couldn't continue without a very short rest. After telling some fellow gym goers about it I watched one of them do it and was horrified to see the ROM decrease with every set. Go ahead and brag about how you completed it, but also mention how that extra few inches to the floor was too difficult to keep up.

When I do pushups it is chest to floor and lockout arms. Not hips to floor, not stomach to floor, chest to floor. This way when you get to sets 8, 9 and 10 and your doing a "pushup" we know your really doing a pushup, and that you havent chopped 3 inches off the ROM over the last 27 reps.

I'd be curious to see someone do this in 56 seconds as one poster told Shugart he did. 55 pushups in 56 seconds, chest to floor, WITH a full standup in between sets, lets see it guy. And if you cant I'd like to see what those first 55 pushups in 56 seconds looked like.

ok so wait. we are talking about doing 55 pushups in 56 seconds. chest to floor, elbows locked out?

Nope HolyNoodles... not a straight/consecutive set of 55 reps.

He is talking about a ladder set up to 10.

Do one push-up, stand-up, drop, do two push-ups, stand up, drop, do three push-ups, drop, do four push-ups, etc. until you reach and complete ten push-ups. There is absolutely no resting.

Much, much harder than a consecutive set of 55 push-ups.

0:58.55

HolyMac my wife figured out I could cut some time by falling right into the bottom position of the first push-up on every set from the stand-up position as I do when performing Burpees... the jumping, push-up kind.

More or less I drop down as if performing a squat thruster... when my leg/feet are thrusting out behind me I am landing on my hands with my elbows bent so I am at the bottom of the push-up movement... I then touch the chest to the floor then explode up and go for the set count.

I can see a sub-50 if using this technique but it is tough on the elbows and shoulders but no worse than when performing 100 Burpees for Time.

Way harder, didn't even bother timing it.

Only tried this twice.

My best was like 1:25. No half-assed push ups either.