Increasing the number of pushups

[cacrazygurl]

Hey everyone
i need a little help first off i am new to the site so please bare with me....anyways I am 19 years old and am getting ready to enlist in the military with this I have to be able to do 35 pushups in 2 mins.. I need some advice on how to increase the number of pushups I do... At this point I have very weak arms and was also wondering if lifting weights will help increase the number of pushups.
thanks

[TRAZ]

Well, the best way to increase the amount of pushups you can do is...do more pushups! Seriously though, you could do any number of chest exercises to help you in this area. Bench presses are the obvious choice. Try doing flat/ incline/ decline bench presses for a while and that should help immensely. You may want to use just a moderate amount of weight in this case since you are going more for endurance and not mass. Try using a weight that you can press 12 times or so. Hope this helps!

[ktinspired]

i had a similar goal that I reached.

What I did was do push up every time I thought about it. Every time I went to the floor I would add 1 more. About 3 times a day.
this may not be the best way to achieve but it worked for me I didn't really push myself so hard that I would hurt to bad to do the next bunch just that one extra and before i knew it i got there. Good luck with that.
And I admire you joining the military!!!