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Originally posted by jennypie I should have never stopped doing push ups.

Get back to it!!

I am! Just that I can only get through 6 or 7 before I have to drop to my knees and finish out the sets girly style. I give it a couple weeks.

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Originally posted by jennypie I am! Just that I can only get through 6 or 7 before I have to drop to my knees and finish out the sets girly style. I give it a couple weeks.

There's nothing wrong with that! I do the same thing. When I cant push myself up I drop to my knees till I cant push myself up again. For push ups, MAXIMUM REPS! That's what counts.

When I got injured during my second round of P90X I had to stop working out completely. When I jumped into Insanity my push ups were pathetic. I could do 12 until I was spent. It's been a month and now I can do 30-35 no problem.

Today I did chest and back which is pretty much all push ups and pull ups. I did probably close to 200 push ups wide, military, standard and declined. And every time maxing out doing them regular and on my knees.

You'll be kicking ass in no time!

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Originally posted by jennypie I should have never stopped doing chin ups.

i can barely do 4 now

i've actually started liking push-ups again except i do a variation. push-up/dumbbell rows ftw i always feel damn near worn out when i finish these

Figured I'd post this in here...

So my dumb bf didn't go grocery shopping last night, leaving me with "nothing" to eat all fucking day today (no eggs, no veggies or salad stuff, no meat). I had to scour the pantry for something that wasn't shit and would actually fill me up for a few hours and I made what turned out to be a pretty awesome concoction. Lol "coc".

Anyway, I mixed together some drained and rinsed canned bean medley (chick peas, kidney beans, and one other kind of bean) with a can of sockeye salmon...with mayo, a bit of dijon mustard, a splash of soy sauce, chopped red onion, and a bit of oregano and parsley. Then I wrapped it with lettuce.

I realized as I was eating that it was total meat-head food, and figured I would share it with you lunkheads.

*chest bump*

I feel highly smug about the amount of push-ups I can do.

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Originally posted by SYSTEM-J I feel highly smug about the amount of push-ups I can do.

How many?

Between 80-100 in one set. Depends on how quickly I do them.

I only do them once or twice a month though, when I can't use my weights for whatever reason. When I was doing multiple sets every day I used to be better, but so many reps at such low resistance just didn't give me enough soreness the day after.

When my brother was swimming for Auburn, they would have 1-minute pushup drills, and some of those cats would be doing 85-90 pushups in 60 seconds. I can't even begin to imagine.

When I'm doing them quickly I have to count in 10s, like "7, 8, 9, 60" because I just can't keep up with myself otherwise. So I guess I could do 60+ in a minute. Things get pretty wobbly after 80, though.

Also, doing them quickly tends to make them easier. Increase your cadence and focus on perfect form for a real challenge.

Pushups aren't exactly my thing, but they help out a lot to keep my muscles from fatiguing when I swim. I can probably only max do 2 or 3 sets of 40, doing 50 pushups kills me

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Originally posted by SYSTEM-J Between 80-100 in one set. Depends on how quickly I do them. I only do them once or twice a month though, when I can't use my weights for whatever reason. When I was doing multiple sets every day I used to be better, but so many reps at such low resistance just didn't give me enough soreness the day after.

Dang! Put some weights in a backpack and then do em!

Just tried doing one-handed push-ups. I can do about three.

I can eat 100 treadmills.

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Originally posted by SYSTEM-J Just tried doing one-handed push-ups. I can do about three.

That's interesting. You'd think you would be able to do more...

I just tried and can do 2.

I did 3 sets of 10 proper push ups yesterday. I'm never not doing them again. So satisfying.

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Originally posted by Chris Crossland That's interesting. You'd think you would be able to do more... I just tried and can do 2.

They're more about balance, which involves a lot of core strength and good form. You probably have a lot more core strength than me.

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Originally posted by SYSTEM-J Just tried doing one-handed push-ups. I can do about three.

i can do 0 i tried it once last week, it was all types of fail

I had another go earlier and I just couldn't get the balance right. They're fiddly bastards.

My ankle is all jacked up.

I rolled it a couple weeks ago and it didn't hurt at all but the next day it was irritated and since then it hasn't hurt until now. I don't know what I did to it for it to start acting up again. Nothing happened yesterday and I went to start my workout and was like FFFFFFFFUUUUUUUUUUUUU!!!!!!

So I just hit the punching bag and speed bag for 3 hours. I attempted to jump rope but that failed miserably. I'm covered in sweat so I'm satisfied for now...

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Originally posted by SYSTEM-J Between 80-100 in one set. Depends on how quickly I do them. I only do them once or twice a month though, when I can't use my weights for whatever reason. When I was doing multiple sets every day I used to be better, but so many reps at such low resistance just didn't give me enough soreness the day after.

Natural strength or have you trained it over time? I've got pretty good strength there and could do about the same, I've also always had naturally strong abs too but ask me to do some chin ups and I'll fall apart before I even do 5

Stupid uneven body

Trained over time. My abs used to be great - I could do hundreds and hundreds of sit-ups in one go - but I found them really boring to train and now neglect them a bit. I'm not too bad at pull ups/chin ups. I can do 20 pull-ups now.

I find static ab exercises are the best. Plank and then advanced plank like alternate limbs, extended hands, on top of exercise balls and so on.

I need to work on my chin ups...

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