Or do the push up challenge every other day to allow recovery and probably better results
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An experiment in physical fitness...
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Or do the push up challenge every other day to allow recovery and probably better results
Probably would be safer but burpees bring back to many horrible memories.
It's more of a quest to succeed in a personal challenge than a desire to achieve results. If I get hurt I'll just stop and start another project when I'm well.
I can do about 40 in one set...that's straight pushups non stop....can't do as those guys in that Sally up video....hurt both my shoulders doing bench press...actually doing pushups has helped my shoulders greatly....I stay away from the bench press now....
I have been a gym rat for 34 years , granted I don't get there as often as I should now for various reasons but I still go regularly.
I embrace the idea of trying to up the # of reps as often as you can. When doing weight training one can pick a weight that they can do for say 8-10 reps (imminent failure at the point you stop) use that weight until you can do 1-2 reps more to failure and up the weight and so forth and so on.
Same principle your suggesting but instead of increasing weight you increase reps as body weight is relatively static.
In for results.
I embrace the idea of trying to up the # of reps as often as you can. When doing weight training one can pick a weight that they can do for say 8-10 reps (imminent failure at the point you stop) use that weight until you can do 1-2 reps more to failure and up the weight and so forth and so on.
Same principle your suggesting but instead of increasing weight you increase reps as body weight is relatively static.
In for results.
i just tried to do push-ups and i got about 15 push-ups in before the popping, crackling, and grinding in my shoulders said that's enough!
Lol I hear that. I've done 30 so far today. Every rep my shoulder makes a "rippin and tearin" kind of noise. Gonna be a long month.
I am on day 20 of a thirty day plank challenge. I added in 30 day push-up challenge last week. There are some good apps that help track your progress and help you see towards your goal. Squats and cardio are next. I can tell a difference already.
When I started working out again a few months ago my left shoulder was giving me fits. Decreasing my range of motion on the first few reps and then gradually increasing it, helped tremendously. It would sometimes take ten reps to get full range of motion, or sometimes I couldn't get full range the whole set. However, overall I was able to do more and not have to take a day off because of pain.
Holy crap, I just tried that bring Sally up, push up chela he posted earlier. That thing is no joke. My son and I tried it with push-ups, squats, planks and leg lifts. He beat me on all three of course lol. He made it all the way through the leg lifts. He said he could have made it through them all, but he only needed to last long enough to beat me.
popping and creeking - lol
