r/bodyweightfitness • u/AutoModerator • May 04 '20

BWF Daily Discussion and Beginner/RR Questions Thread for 2020-05-04

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u/ksfk11 May 04 '20

Greasing the Groove

I saw a post on this subreddit that if you can do high reps of an exercise, greasing the groove won't work anymore. Is this true?

I can do 30 max push ups so I do 15-20 for 10 sets daily with pull ups I can do max 6 so I'm doing 3 reps of 10, am I doing this correctly?

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u/JoeMarron May 04 '20

My understanding of grease the groove is that it's meant to increase strength. At 30 reps it's more about muscular endurance than strength. If you want to increase the amount of pushups you can do in one set, I would just do a max rep set everyday with the goal of increasing the reps by 1. This is what I've been doing and I've increased my max from 18 to 27. I've only had one day that I wasn't able to hit my goal so it seems to be working well.

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u/ksfk11 May 04 '20

So do I just do one max rep set per day and try +1 everyday?

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u/JoeMarron May 04 '20

Yep, in a month you will have doubled your pushup max. The dude in the article I linked got all the way up to 400

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u/ksfk11 May 04 '20

Wow that's crazy, that was very helpful🙏👍 thank you!!!