resistance in pushups

[risingdragon]

right now my limit of pushups is 50. I want to increase it quickly so i made a plan to do them with resistance on my back. I place a 40 pound weight on my back and do pushups on it. here's the problem i know harder pushups means stronger arms, but i don't seem to get any pains on my arms. as soon as i take them off i feel light as a feather. is this suppose to happen. helpp!!!

[Jack]

Make sure you're keeping perfect form when the weight is added. You may need to use the muscles of your midsection more to keep your back straight. Be sure to perform the pushup slowly, this may help you in feeling it in your chest and arms.

 

And yes, blasting out a set of unweighted pushups after three sets of weighted pushups really does feel good! Weighted pushups are great in getting better at Pushups, I oft had a challenge with myself - how many pushups can you do in two minutes? I was at around 70, next workout I did my pushups weighted, and then the workout after that unweighted I blasted out 81... nice little improvement.

[risingdragon]

yeah thanks for the advice. I kinda of tested it after i did my weighted pushups. I did another excerise with punching with barbell. All of a sudden i felt like punching upt 4 minutes or more because my limit is 3 minutes. So should do all my different pushups with weights for now on or should just switch after each workout like tues unweighted and wed weighted.

[Jack]

Switch them up, leave some days for recovery though, I was doing well with intensive sessions of pushups 2 or 3 times a week.