Fair warning to you- your wrists are taking a severe pounding when do all of this. I had the push-up jones worse than you while in the Navy. Used to do 50 push-up sets for 1000+ push-up days- and had done all of the varients. Tops was close to 150 good ones + a number more of crappy ones. Went into the martial arts after the military (still had some macho to work out). Lots of heavy bag work and more push-ups. Result- is that my wrists become extremely sore and sensitive if I try to do more than 15 push-ups in a day. Had to give up martial arts, push-ups and be real careful with weight training- saw some doc’s without luck heavens knows whats wrong in there- I can only imagine. . . .
I think I’ve found something that works well for me to prevent this. I noticed after awhile that my wrists would ‘snap’ when I rolled them around after doing thirty/forty-odd pushups. Instead of doing the ‘traditional’ palms to the floor position, I made my hands into fists, and did pushups on the flat part of my knuckles on the floor (like you’re punching the floor). Sure, it takes a little practice, but it straightens out your wrist and really toughens up your hands for a solid right hook
Tripler
Not that I’ve ever had to right hook someone.
30 year old male here. Lets see I do about 30 push-ups at once but I have my feet proped up on the rail on the side of my bed.(So at full extension of my arms my body is pretty much horizontal.) Damn, guess I’m a loon, I only started doing them so I could make my arms strong enough to do a kip-up
Oh, I know:) I tried it out yesterday and I was able to do about five with an imaginary partner before I basically said “fuck this, I have better things to waste my wrists over”. But otherwise I can just do pushups with my fists if my wrists aren’t feeling up to it.
And re: kips, I’ve found the most success doing those is not with the strength of my arms but the rollof my neck. If I get my weight moving back properly, and i snap my neck properly (yeahm after a couple of them I do have a headache), up I go. I use my arms for balance more’n anything else.
[sub]Hmm…it would be interesting to see if I could break 151 again.[/sub]
Well I can do a kip thank you very much. Of course as you’ve said, you really don’t need much arm strength to do one.(Good technique, strong abs, and a flexible spine really help though:)
I wanted to break 50, and I am going to the gym tonight.
My all time record is 121, but that was a looooooooooong time ago.
How many chin-ups can you do? My PR is 27, but the last time I did any I did 21. It was in a contest at my son’s school. I entered, got asked my age, and got put in the “Masters” division.
By golly, I was going to win the overall or die in the attempt. I did, and the prize was a sweatshirt.
Size small. My wife snagged it.
Don’t you think someone who could win a chin-up contest would have an upper body that is larger than small?
49 male
5-7 160 lbs
60 good ones. 100 in about 2:30 min. 60 nonstop-wait 45 seconds-25-wait 30 seconds-10-wait 15 seconds-and then 5.
wait 5 minutes and do 100 nonstop curls with the strongest 20 lb purple resistance chords
wait 1 hour and then go for a 6 mile run at a 7:30/mile pace
i try to do this 2-3x/wk
it all takes about an hour- 1:30…
better than watching tv anytime!!!
red hot chili peppers—throw away your television!!!
Pushups are one of those mundane things I managed to get by without ever learning how to do. It literally does not compute for me how I am supposed to lift my body off the floor without bending my spine.
Male, 35. I (try to) do 50 -100 per day, but I can only do 25 at one go. Drops down to 20 if I’ve eased off them for as little as a week.
No pull-ups or chin-ups – and I built a little rig in the attic of my antepenultimate apartment just for training this. I think I’m too heavy (not that fat, these days) and don’t plain don’t have the muscles for them. I guess the Corps won’t get theirs.
