What if...

Instead of doing my sets to failure, I did equal sets of pushups. For example, today I did 34, then 14, then 11, then 6 pushups. And each set was to failure. Could I do more pushups if I just did 20 pushups a set? That would definitely get me further along. The good news from today is I found out that I hadn't maxed may 4 sets yesterday.

If my goal is to eventually do 1000 pushups continuously, shouldn't I continue to do sets to failure? Maybe I'll try the 4 sets of 20 and see how I do with it.