“Why limit yourself to being average? If you have a talent, make the most of it. If you have a dream, why not go after it?”
This great quotes comes from Australian Cricketer, Justin Langer. Even if you don’t like or understand anything about cricket, this quote is of value in any endeavour.
If standard pushups are far to easy for you, try using chains. Wih a good coach or training partner, you can hammer your body, while training in drop set fashion. This video comes courtesy of Joe DeFranco.
I am a fan of including explosive or Olympic style movements in training programs. By this, I mean movements like pulls and cleans, not neccessarily the Olympic lifts themselves. If you have been coached to do the Olympic lifts, great, include them in your training but if you have not had a good coach teach you the lifts, stay with the more basic explosive movements. If you start including these lifts in your program, it is important to keep the reps per set low. The damands of these lifts are such that the maximum number of reps in one set should generally be no higher than 6. I usually recommend no higher than 3 or 4.