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I'm trying to max out my push-ups and sit-ups for a military PT test. I had great progress in my first month, but I seem to have hit a plateau. I"ve got 7 weeks to add about 20% more to my scores. I am a personal trainer but training myself has always been more difficult than training my clients. Any suggestions on some training methods to shake things up would be greatly appreciated.

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Hello there,

There are a variety of things you can try. You can start a program of your own like these maybe:

Pick a rep range that you can do pushups with perfect form. Say you can do 10 perfect pushups. Do 3 sets of those pushups with a shoulder width stance. Then follow it up with maybe 3 sets of close stance pushups of 10 reps and then do 3 sets of wide stance pushups of 10 reps. That could be a nightly workout for a week and then max out your pushups for one session at the end of the week.

You could add flat bench press and other variations of it but stay in a high rep range. This idea would increase your muscular endurance as well as improve strength. You’re not trying to bulk up here though.

I would do the same with improving your situps. Do variations of situps in the same fashion as I said about pushups.

This couldn’t hurt…then eventually you’ll find what works best for your body type and go with it. Good luck

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