<p>The bench press works well within the tricep region of your body.b/c in my freshman year i could only do about 60 pushups in one minute when my max on benchpress was like 150 lol. But now my max is 225 and i can pull off 88 pushups in one minute. Major difference.</p>
<p>88 proper push-ups. Can't do 88 PFT style push-ups in 60 seconds.</p>
<p>lol, my CAP flight sergeant must have been wrong then when he counted my pushups for pt.</p>
<p>must of been.</p>
<p>ehh... sounds like I have alot of working out to do... my max is 165 bench, though... I only weigh like 128-9.</p>
<p>freshman year my max was like 95... and i was like 120 pounds. :/</p>
<p>any advice to increase max as fast as possible? only thing ive heard so far is high weight, low reps... kinda worked, but i think i hit a wall</p>
<p>You don't necessarily have to do the bench press in order to increase your pushup count. I weigh about 128 and can only do about ~140 on the bench, but yet I can easily max the pft. I just try to do a whole lot of pushups in as little time as possible, frequently each week. Here's something that has helped me.</p>
<p>ah.. that looks good, thanks for the link!</p>
<p>lol, its more about endurance than your max pushing force! I do 10 reps at 115 on the bench, and I got 65 push-ups on my PFT. I know many people here significantly lose their bench press weight, but they can do more push-ups now. It's a different type of training.</p>
<p>agree with hornet. bench and push-ups are really related. unless you're doing 72 reps on the bench in 2 minutes and then increasing weight, it won't help push-ups too quickly.</p>
<p>if you want to improve, i'd just do push-ups at night before you go to bed. i did that about 3-4 times a week, one set til i maxed, and i quickly increased. push-ups is one thing i can max on pft, and i'm not great at bench at all.</p>
<p>88 push ups in a minute must make you dizzy...</p>
<p>I'm sure I couldn't pull that off...I'm kinda barrel chested/top heavy.</p>