Guides
Pushup guides
Every guide answers one question people type about pushups, with the coaching kept to what a camera can check, the app's rules stated as the code enforces them, and the numbers marked as estimates where they are estimates. No sign-up, no email wall.
Training
How many a day, how to do more, and how to test your max
Rep targets by level, the ladder from wall to floor with sets below failure, and a repeatable max test with what the app records.
How many pushups a day should you do?Start with two or three sets of 5 to 10 pushups a day, build to 50 or 100 in sets over a few weeks, and rest when strength is the goal. Numbers by level.Read the guide →
How to do more pushupsDo more pushups by climbing from incline to knee to floor, training in sets short of failure, adding a rep a week, and resting. The ladder and the sets.Read the guide →
How to test your max pushupsTest your max pushups rested and warm, one set to failure with full reps, every two to four weeks, and record it. The protocol and what the app records.Read the guide →
Form and the camera
What good form is, how to set the phone up, and what stays on it
The four parts of the form score in degrees, a set-up that makes the counter reliable, and where a camera frame goes.
Pushup form: depth, alignment and symmetry, and how a camera scores themGood pushup form: a straight line from shoulders to ankles, elbows bending evenly to 90 degrees, and a full lockout. How the app scores it out of 100.Read the guide →
How to count pushups with your phone cameraLean the phone against a wall at floor level two metres to your side, light from the front, get in position and hold still. The setup and the fixes.Read the guide →
Does the pushup counter see my camera? What stays on the phone and what leavesCamera frames become 33 body points on the phone and are discarded; nothing is recorded or uploaded. What is stored, what Firebase sends, what Health gets.Read the guide →
Progress
EMOM, Tabata and Max Reps, the calorie estimate, and the habit
The three Pro modes and the free one, half a calorie a rep and what goes to Apple Health, and goals, streaks, widgets and achievements.
EMOM, Tabata and Max Reps pushup workoutsEMOM is a rep target every minute with the rest as recovery; Tabata is 8 rounds of 20 seconds on, 10 off; Max Reps is one set to failure. What each trains.Read the guide →
How many calories do pushups burn?Pushups burn about half a calorie each, more at pace: 20 pushups is about 10 calories, 100 about 50 to 65. How the estimate is made and what Health gets.Read the guide →
Pushup streaks, daily goals and widgetsA daily rep goal you can meet, a weekly one that adds up, a streak that survives easy days, a reminder before bed and a home-screen widget.Read the guide →
Push Up Counter is free to start on the App Store: unlimited Sets workouts with the camera counter and the form score, with Max Reps, EMOM, Tabata and full history in Pro for $1.99 a week or $14.99 a year.
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