bodyweight exercises

[remorseless08]

is it good for a boxer to do heaps of push up and pull ups. im worried about bulking up to much, my goal is to stay lean but to gain strength. how many push ups and pull ups do you guys usualy do and how often

[hookoutofhell]

im able to do 60 push-ups and about 20 chin ups - i dont think thats fantastic but i dont think its too bad neither.

lately iv kinda changed my style though iv instead tried to do 50-55 press ups 4/5 times during the day. iv noticed now that when iv tried to do as many press-ups as possible i manage to about 70.
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[remorseless08]

thats pretty good man, i can only do about 34 push ups in one go and only about 8 pull ups, ive got to improve on my strength. so you reckon if i try do 50 push ups 4 or 5 times a day it shouls increase my strength and my push up total

[dfwtx]

they're great to do and wont make you put on a ton of weight i wouldnt worry too much

[Tom70]

You shouldn't "bulk up" very much just doing push up and pull ups. If you were lifting weights 4-5 times a week that would be a different story but just push ups and pull ups should be ok.

[Unanimous]

Jeez, I can only manage 20 press-ups!!!

Think I know what I'm doing tonight then!

[nedcmk1]

Bulking up is more about dieting than resistence. Lifting and bodyweight are both resistence... same thing.

Your body doesn't grow any differently because of where the weight comes from. weight is weight.

[JF91]

Being able to move your own bodyweight as efficiently as possible is crucial in boxing for generating power, so it cant be bad.

[hookoutofhell]

remorseless, if i was you i would proabaly aim for about 30, it depends i myself used to find it pretty hard to get to 60 the last 5 used to kill me so i used to do about 50 as that way i was pushing myself daily but not too hard. when you do your last couple of press-ups you should feel the blood pumping but once you're finished you should try and make sure you're not spent.
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[PunchDrunk]

Once you're higher than 10-15 reps, it's no longer a question of strength, but muscle endurance, to be able to do more.

If you can do 30 pushups and 10-12 pullups, I'd say add weight, and do less reps (3-5). This will at strength, where doing s bunch of reps is just muscle endurance, which you're already training in most of your boxing specific training.

Edit: Also doing low reps, and keeping the number of sets low (2-5), you'll avoid the added mass. You need a higher volume of work to add muscle, so you'll be working almost exclusively on strength.