Pushing Tropy

Trophy Pushing Guide

Basics

You get trophies from winning attacks or defences. How many trophies you can win from each attack is depending on how many trophies your opponent have (you can read more about it here: http://forum.supercell.net/showthread.php/97-Trophies-Matchmaking-explained!). In short you get pitched against an opponent with around the same amount of trophies you have, that means the more trophies you get the tougher opponents you get.
To win an attack you need at least one star of a total three stars. You get stars from taking out town hall, getting 50% of the buildings and getting 100%. For each star you get one third of the available trophies.
Defending can be a good way of getting trophies in lower leagues or if you are very high level, but when trophy pushing you aim at getting higher than your comfort zone which make defence difficult.
If you lose an attack you lose trophies and the amount depends on the amount of trophies your attacker has, if they get one, two or three stars and if its a regular attack or a revenge (you can get more trophies revenging). If you lose a defence you get a shield for 12-16 hours, depending on how much of your base was destroyed. If you win a defence but lose 40% of your base, you will also get a shield.

Plan for the push

The push is one week long, but that doesn’t mean you should push all week. The important thing is to have your highest trophy count on the last day on the push, if everyone does that it will help the clan ranking the most.
Its up to you if you want to pace yourself and slowly move up during week or go full on mad push during a few days. You also have to remember that it might be really hard to get resources higher up, especially gold, so if you peak too soon you might not be able to stay up. Be sure to snipe as much gold as you from towns with exposed town halls while slowly but surely moving up in trophy count.
For a lot of players the best thing might be to not start the push until Wednesday in order to be at top for Sunday. Monday to Wednesday you can move up slowly by farming and then start sniping midweek.