What am I doing wrong? I've increased my chinups (combined with straight leg/ab curls and never touching the ground between reps, just pausing to lower my legs to prepare for the next curl, but no contact with the ground) from 5 to ten in the past six months, but I've been trying to get more pushups in for years and can't beat twenty. I focus on pushups two to three times a week with several sets of sets per day on days that I am working on it. Usually the first set is a set of about twenty, then I wait about thirty seconds and can do 10 to 12 more. Another 30 seconds and the last set is somewhere in the whimpering single digits. And then I do it again a few hours later. Then I rest a day or two for strength to return and mass to build. And my muscles have actually increased in size, perhaps to mock me for how weak they still are. What gives? Should I start doing sets every day and just rest on the weekends? I'm sick and tired of making no gains, as this strategy has proven somewhat successful for my chinup routine. I eat a lot of meat and vegetables, very few grains and very little toxic and/or refined product except for a mouthful honey before bed.
