Response to Pushing Film - What Density Readings?

"Expose for the shadows, develop for the highlights" - is still the best rule of thumb to go by.
The usual (some would say only) reason for pushing film is to bring a low contrast subject up to a normal printing density on the negative, and you should develop to get the highlights to whatever density you consider 'normal'.
If you get highlights of 1.15 density with a normal contrast subject and normal development, then you should aim for the same highlight density from your low-contrast subject.
Pushing a normal contrast exposure just gets you blocked up and unprintable highlights.

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