Press ups assumption

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Today's routine asked me for 10/12/8/8/12+

The 10 was just about ok, so I knew 12+ in set5 was going to be tough.

I did 10/12/8/8/6

So it is quite likely I will repeat week 1 next week.  I'm hoping recovery rate between exercise days improves, otherwise this will be a tough old slog.

That's my next one too and I don't think I'll manage it. If not I will probably just try repeating that day until I can do it. If that fails I'll do the whole week again.

[EvilPie]

Anybody ever tried the "Green Sally up" push up challenge?

Pretty simple concept.... Play the song "flowers" by Moby and every time you hear the word "up" you push up, every time you hear "down" you drop to the down position.

Takes 3 minutes 20 seconds to complete the whole song. Huge respect to anybody who can do it because it's insanely difficult!! It only involves about 30 push ups but the pauses are absolute killers.

Give it a go if you dare and let us know how long you manage. I've just tried this for the first time in years and managed about 55 seconds.

Maybe we could get a group of Blondes together to try this: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bKku2dhT_VY
 

[titaniumbean]

You're not getting 20 seat 1s in DTD to even attempt pushups or situps in DTD without paying them all.  No way in a million years

ya bet is clearly null and void in that sense.

[Oxford_HRV]

http://youtu.be/6sQn9uDhQZQ

Heres my friend doing 88 press ups in less than a minute

[kinboshi]

Anybody ever tried the "Green Sally up" push up challenge?

Pretty simple concept.... Play the song "flowers" by Moby and every time you hear the word "up" you push up, every time you hear "down" you drop to the down position.

Takes 3 minutes 20 seconds to complete the whole song. Huge respect to anybody who can do it because it's insanely difficult!! It only involves about 30 push ups but the pauses are absolute killers.

Give it a go if you dare and let us know how long you manage. I've just tried this for the first time in years and managed about 55 seconds.

Maybe we could get a group of Blondes together to try this: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bKku2dhT_VY
 

I posted about that earlier in the thread.

We're doing some strength and conditioning training with an instructor as part of our hockey training. As with most people who do team sports, we all have decent leg strength but lack the upper body strength.

We did the Sally up challenge with push-ups and I managed a minute and a half. One guy on the team managed two and a half minutes and he's a sports coach. One bloke managed to complete it, but he's a super-fit fireman who is built like a brick shithouse, and apparently he failed it the first time he tried.

Later in the session, we did the challenge but with squats. Most of the team could manage that fine, so then we tried it with weights on our shoulders, and that made it fun/painful.

[lucky_scrote]

http://youtu.be/6sQn9uDhQZQ

Heres my friend doing 88 press ups in less than a minute

I'm no expert but those look pretty half arsed. When I do press ups I keep my body stiff as a board so that I am pushing up the maximum weight possible. If you go all supple like this chap did then you are often only pushing half of your body weight up. Am I wrong here?

I am tempted by this challenge tbh. Will check that website Simon posted up and post my results.

[zerofive]

http://youtu.be/6sQn9uDhQZQ

Heres my friend doing 88 press ups in less than a minute

I'm no expert but those look pretty half arsed. When I do press ups I keep my body stiff as a board so that I am pushing up the maximum weight possible. If you go all supple like this chap did then you are often only pushing half of your body weight up. Am I wrong here?

I am tempted by this challenge tbh. Will check that website Simon posted up and post my results.

You're not wrong. This are almost like "kipping" push-ups. Most of the momentum for the concentric movement is residual, and his chest is miles from the floor. Not saying what he's doing wouldn't be challenging, but the push-up counter is still at zero.

I'm tempted by this Green Sally challenge. Back when I had absolutely no chest, I used to do all sorts of push-up challenges to absolute whack the pecs from all angles, and one of them was to see how many you could get by holding at the bottom for a count of 1 second for your first push up, 2 seconds for your next, 3 seconds for your third, and so on. Can't remember what I got to, probably less than I thought I was going to get; but the concept is similar and it is brutally challenging

[willrobrobu]

http://youtu.be/6sQn9uDhQZQ

Heres my friend doing 88 press ups in less than a minute

the links that appear down the side in youtube when i watched this frighten me

[lucky_scrote]

Anyone who is looking for the motivation you see a massive improvement very quickly. On your first attempt (the initial test) the muscles will be torn to shreds but once they heal they are a lot stronger. When I tried to do as many as possible 2 months ago (no prior training) I did 20 but could have maybe squeezed 21-22.

Since then I've barely done anything but in the past week (without following the website Simon posted) and just doing about two reps of 15 I just decided to go flat out and see what happened. Here is the video for your viewing pleasure:




Is the technique ok? Do I drop my chest down low enough? I'm still trembling from squeezing out that last push up but I really wanted to make 40.

Next video will be 100 btw.

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They look fine to me.

[pleno1]

Anyone who is looking for the motivation you see a massive improvement very quickly. On your first attempt (the initial test) the muscles will be torn to shreds but once they heal they are a lot stronger. When I tried to do as many as possible 2 months ago (no prior training) I did 20 but could have maybe squeezed 21-22.

Since then I've barely done anything but in the past week (without following the website Simon posted) and just doing about two reps of 15 I just decided to go flat out and see what happened. Here is the video for your viewing pleasure:




Is the technique ok? Do I drop my chest down low enough? I'm still trembling from squeezing out that last push up but I really wanted to make 40.

Next video will be 100 btw.

I'd suggest opening legs a little bit, being slower between reps and breathing more but they are def v good ones

[lucky_scrote]

Anyone who is looking for the motivation you see a massive improvement very quickly. On your first attempt (the initial test) the muscles will be torn to shreds but once they heal they are a lot stronger. When I tried to do as many as possible 2 months ago (no prior training) I did 20 but could have maybe squeezed 21-22.

Since then I've barely done anything but in the past week (without following the website Simon posted) and just doing about two reps of 15 I just decided to go flat out and see what happened. Here is the video for your viewing pleasure:




Is the technique ok? Do I drop my chest down low enough? I'm still trembling from squeezing out that last push up but I really wanted to make 40.

Next video will be 100 btw.

I'd suggest opening legs a little bit, being slower between reps and breathing more but they are def v good ones

OK. I was always under the impression that in short bursts of exercise you're able to exert more energy by holding your breath. I guess once I am working towards 100 I'll be brain dead if I didn't do so .

Will work on the wider legs, never able to get comfortable.

[Simon Galloway]

Looks ok to me, in terms of form.  I'm definitely going slower, trying for "deliberate motion" rather than trying to bang them out asap.  Glad to hear about the muscle fibres repairing etc and can confirm I can already feel much improvement in my recovery.  I am currently "resting" from Day2 but feel like I could attempt Day 3 right now with no problems (well.. no problems until the end of the 4th set..)  whereas even on Day2, I was definitely not ready to do it, as I was still hurting quite a lot.  Not agony, but enough to know it was going to impact performance definitely.

[zerofive]

Yeh your chest/shoulders will probably still be sore, but after around 48 hours you will be back to full strength.

Re: form. Looks okay. As already suggested, I favour slow and steady, with a very deliberate breathing pattern (in on the way down, out on the way up, just to state the obvious.) One thing that's hard to see from the angle of the video is the position of your arms relative to your torso. Basically you don't want to flare your elbows, they want to be somewhere between 45-60 degrees to your body.

If you want to recruit some more muscle fibres, here are a couple of suggestions: 1. take your chest as close to the grass as you can, 2. take 2-3 on the negative (the portion of the exercise where you are lowering yourself to the floor) and 3. imagine you're trying to touch your hands together as you push your body away from the floor (if you keep in mind one of the primary functions of the pectoral muscle is to move your arm across your body, then this should make sense.)

These tips will help you become stronger and develop a bigger chest to allow you to perform a greater amount of push-ups in the future. Keep in mind though, if you're utilising any of these intensity techniques, you're unlikely to immediately perform more push-ups as what you're doing is making the exercise harder. Better to use them over 5 sets of 8-12, rather than trying to hit 100 reps.

Sorry, just rambling. Hope this post was useful. Keep crushing

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My day 2 was supposed to be 10 - 12 - 8 - 8 - 12.

I managed 10 - 12 - 8 - 8 - 11.

I'm just going to repeat day 2 until I get it.