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[andyzzle]

hey guys, i'm curious about how many pushups (in a row, no breaks between them) other trickers can do. and i'm not talking about any sort of special pushups like on your fists or something, just the regular classic ones.

i usually do 61 every night before going to sleep. my personal record was 84..(doped myself with sugar tho...:wink:)

how about you guys? how many do you do (usual/max)?

EDIT: i've been doing them every day for the last 3 years

[JimmyKewl]

i don`t know.

[Khaos]

over 9000

[Caveman]

You've been wasting your time nearly everyday for the last 3 years.

[DarkXacreD]

Usually about 5.

Oh, we're talking about two-handed pushups?

[JimmyKewl]

well i do handstand ones sometimes, can do about 8

[Skippy]

I don't think anyone here trains push ups haha.

I'd be dissapointed if I couldn't do about 80 though at least.

[Aki]

Are we talking about pushups where you go all the way down until your chest touches the ground?

Cause if so, 80+ is a whole heck of a lot, I can do around 35.

I do them on knuckles though.

[Churoflip]

I don't think anyone here trains push ups haha.

I'd be dissapointed if I couldn't do about 80 though at least.

Give it a try, i bet you will be dissapointed


Well ive been doing pushups every night for 4 years now, and my best record was 107

[Skippy]

Why do you do them every night?

[TBoyd]

I mean, pushups are semi-ok if you have no access to weights. Other body weight exercises are even better.

Srsly though, pushups every night aren't going to accomplish much tricking wise or strength wise.

do some heavy weightz dawg

[Churoflip]

Why do you do them every night?

Well i was obssesed with them, every time i wanted to do moar than the last time, it was kinda personal for me, but after awhile, i stopped caring, and i just do em for teh lulz.

[andyzzle]

You've been wasting your time nearly everyday for the last 3 years.
don't quite agree
Usually about 5.
Oh, we're talking about two-handed pushups?
yeah, i guess you're talking about one handed, but honestly i can do none at all...my upper body's too heavy i guess :tongue:
well i do handstand ones sometimes, can do about 8
that's quite a lot, i can do about as much as you, on good days tho..
Are we talking about pushups where you go all the way down until your chest touches the ground?

jup

Well ive been doing pushups every night for 4 years now, and my best record was 107
that's one hell of a lot man, you got my respect
how do you deal with the breathing tho, usually i'm down at 70 cause i get out of breath...if it wasn't for that i could do 100+ i think
Why do you do them every night?
dunno, works better for me to do em before going to bed. besides i kinda got used to doing them, it's like a reflex
Well i was obssesed with them, every time i wanted to do moar than the last time, it was kinda personal for me, but after awhile, i stopped caring, and i just do em for teh lulz.
same goes for me
I mean, pushups are semi-ok if you have no access to weights. Other body weight exercises are even better.

Srsly though, pushups every night aren't going to accomplish much tricking wise or strength wise.

do some heavy weightz dawg
i also do heavy weight training, but it has become a habit, just for fun you know

[DarkXacreD]

You:
Normal pushups - 61
One-handed pushups - 0

Me:
Normal pushups - 30
One-handed pushups - 5

[xrobbatesx]

about 100....
one handed.. hmm i'm not sure but i'd estimate 10-20 probably lower if i was being dead strict with form..

[compleks]

I can probably do about 20 on a good day.

[compleks]

about 100....
one handed.. hmm i'm not sure but i'd estimate 10-20 probably lower if i was being dead strict with form..

Maybe you should give it a shot. 10-20 would be fairly impressive.

[xrobbatesx]

Maybe you should give it a shot. 10-20 would be fairly impressive.

fair deals, i'll do it now...
and tell why not :)

[Khaos]

why not just get into the routine of stretching instead if ur doing it for tricking purposes? if not then hey i'll race you to 300 :P ha ha ha

[xrobbatesx]

i got 15! with strict form :D

[TKD_Andy]

yeah, i guess you're talking about one handed, but honestly i can do none at all...my upper body's too heavy i guess


yeah man, you've clearly got too much muss from doing 60 press ups to be able to do a single one armed pressup.

i'd stop doing them just incase one day you wake up and none of your clothes fit because you've gotten so muss

[Khaos]

i got 16 with strict form

[xrobbatesx]

i got 16 with strict form

hahaha i got 16.5 :tongue:

[Khaos]

ha ha harealistically i could get bout 7 but thats with shit form ahaha

[andyzzle]

i got 15! with strict form :D
that is indeed impressive! just for curiousity, how much do you weight?

Me:
Normal pushups - 30
One-handed pushups - 5
yeah man, you've clearly got too much muss from doing 60 press ups to be able to do a single one armed pressup.
i'd stop doing them just incase one day you wake up and none of your clothes fit because you've gotten so muss

I'm acually being serious, i think i am too heavy for one-handed pushups!
here's my physique, (although i lost shape cos i gained a lot of fat..:sad:):

[andyzzle]

sry i found only this pic of mine..
http://img245.imageshack.us/img245/2207/img0004a.jpg

[JimmyKewl]

well you clearly lack lats so thats why u cant to onehanded ones

[JimmyKewl]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pfsTKfUT-RQ

[andyzzle]

well you clearly lack lats so thats why u cant to onehanded ones
that might be very true indeed..got some tips on how to train them?

(that guy in the vid is wicked btw:shocked:)

[compleks]

yeah man, you've clearly got too much muss from doing 60 press ups to be able to do a single one armed pressup.

i'd stop doing them just incase one day you wake up and none of your clothes fit because you've gotten so muss

sry i found only this pic of mine..
http://img245.imageshack.us/img245/2207/img0004a.jpg

Oh no, it's too late!

[compleks]

Oh shit! Hannibal is king of the playground.

That was insane.

[Lees Dragon]

haha..
This reminds me of days of old.

I've been in that "will do pushups everyday" shit in too many rounds.
I laugh at the old me. :smile:

[xrobbatesx]

that is indeed impressive! just for curiousity, how much do you weight?




I'm acually being serious, i think i am too heavy for one-handed pushups!
here's my physique, (although i lost shape cos i gained a lot of fat..:sad:):

about 155 lbs and going up :smile:

[Skilzat85X]

Strict form push ups are decent.

Do these: http://www.beastskills.com/OneArmPushup.htm

[Skippy]

I expecting Andy to be a stick insect haha.

I can't one arm press up for shit haha, not with closed legs anyway, I did 2 last night though with my friend Ben on my back, he weighs about 150lbs ^.^

It makes me wonder about the correlation between weighted press ups / bench presses, pushing him up was significantly harder than benching the 165x5 the last time I did a flat bench press.

[tpvlyrm]

The most pushups I've done is about 35. Normally I can do about 25 max. I'm not sure why everyone can do 100 pushups so easily, do people use a really limited ROM or am I just totally shit at life?

[Shaedar]

The thing with push-ups is that you adapt quickly and soon you're pushing beyond strength and hypertrophy rep ranges. Therefore your pushup max isn't a presentation of chest strenght but of endurance.

Two and a half years ago I could do 30 pushups@68kg BW. I couldn't do a single dip, I hardly benched 30kg.
After 8 months I stopped doing pushups and other BW stuff at home, had a half year break, hit the gym for two months, quitted, bought the rings and again started working out at home.
Today I did 16 pushups with strict form at 82kg BW. I can do 20 dips and the last time I benched (a year ago) I was lifting 3x5x60kg. Also my chest looks hawt.

I don't consider myself strong by any means, but I think you can see that push ups don't have as much to do with chest strenght as many think.

[andyzzle]

I expecting Andy to be a stick insect haha.

lol:wink:
about 155 lbs and going up :smile:
okay that's not that much, i'm at about 180lbs and hopefully going down:wink:
still pretty impressive number of reps man, keep it up
...I'm not sure why everyone can do 100 pushups so easily, do people use a really limited ROM or am I just totally shit at life?
i don't think it has anything to do with limited ROM (as for me i go all the way up & down), maybe it has got to do something with your breathing? when you do yours, why do you stop at 25ish? because you're out of breath or beacause of lack of strenght in arms/chest?

The thing with push-ups is that you adapt quickly and soon you're pushing beyond strength and hypertrophy rep ranges. Therefore your pushup max isn't a presentation of chest strenght but of endurance.
exactly!
when i began i started off with 15ish, and within one month i got to 30something. it has nothing to do with strenght. Good point Shaedar

[Papa Lazarou]

20 I guess.

[andyzzle]

haha skilz ur a genius! XD
just spent half my day practicing those ones and now i can do 10 of em! (the rocky ones, not the lee ones tho :wink:)
i think i just found a new exercise for the next couple of years to do :wicked:

[Ashtar]

OP, 61? Why 61? Did you not want to stop at 60, but 62 is out of your reach, every single night forever?

Anyway I have no idea, how many I can do really depends on form and tempo. I think I did 20 or 25 one time, I should really go at high speed and use shitty form and see how much I can rep out.

[andyzzle]

OP, 61? Why 61? Did you not want to stop at 60, but 62 is out of your reach, every single night forever?

na, it's just that i don't wanna do only sixty, and sometimes i'm too lazy to do more, so 61 gives me the feeling of doing more than my minimum :tongue:

Anyway I have no idea, how many I can do really depends on form and tempo. I think I did 20 or 25 one time, I should really go at high speed and use shitty form and see how much I can rep out.
it wouldn't be that much of a difference. the faster you do em the faster you run out of breath (even tho you're breathing). if you do em to slow your muscle exhaust and you lack the strenght to go any further. try finding a speed that fits you best! :juji:
(i do like one pushup per 1.5 seconds i think)

[Neo Dingsit.]

about 40-50 i guess

doing "x" amount of pushups generally isn't that much of a feat

[andyzzle]

yeah sure, but it's useless benching half a ton when you can't even do 50 pushups, right (unless u weight half a ton of course :wink:)?

[compleks]

yeah sure, but it's useless benching half a ton when you can't even do 50 pushups, right (unless u weight half a ton of course :wink:)?

Or is it useless doing 50 pushups when you can't even bench half a ton?

[Churoflip]

about 40-50 i guess

doing "x" amount of pushups generally isn't that much of a feat

running "x" amount of kilometers generally isnt that much of a feat


of course its a feat is an endurance feat

[Ashtar]

it wouldn't be that much of a difference. the faster you do em the faster you run out of breath (even tho you're breathing). if you do em to slow your muscle exhaust and you lack the strenght to go any further. try finding a speed that fits you best! :juji:
(i do like one pushup per 1.5 seconds i think)I find the faster you do them, the less you can rely on tendon elasticity to generate power and the muscles work and exhaust you. Slow is mainly only helpful when you are pausing on the top for bones.

[ButtHash Hero]

I would say 30-40 is a good amount of reps i could do in one set.

[DeeJay]

I remember when I used to do push ups every night.

[andyzzle]

Or is it useless doing 50 pushups when you can't even bench half a ton?
haha, trick question! :wink:
do you bench half a ton?
I remember when I used to do push ups every night.
why'd you stop doing them?
...Slow is mainly only helpful when you are pausing on the top for bones.
depends on how you define "slow". i think pausing half a second is okay

[compleks]

haha, trick question! :wink:
do you bench half a ton?

No. But I can't do 50 push ups either and if I had to choose I would much rather be able to bench half a ton.

[Ashtar]

When I read Dogen's site, it said he could do 10 handstand pushups. Pushups are great, but handstand ones are cooler so the goal should be to move up to these by successively inclining by raising feet and going deep.

[andyzzle]

well who wouldn't? (except for antoine, he CAN already bench half a ton!XD):trophy:

[Ashtar]

Hm, bench doesn't always help handstand (incline bench would more) but Antoine may be able to do it since he probably has strong shoulders too.

I am going to do you an immense favour Andy. This is also for anyone else who wants to get very good at pushups, as well as other bodyweight exercises.

First off, this is a link to a .torrent so you need a tracker, I use uTorrent. Become familiar, and then when you are ready, open this tracker and download the file:

Pushups+squats+abs video (http://www.anirena.com/viewtracker.php?action=download&id=22321)

This exercise video will demonstrate to you a variety of different pushups with different rep schemes. It also shows the exercises from a variety of angles so you will become familiar with them.

It also teaches a variety of squats (if you push with your arms, you should also do so with your legs) and also a variety of abdominal exercises.

I am confident that when you train to be able to follow along with the entire thing without pausing that you will be incredibly strong. Until that point, simply pause as long as you need to, and try to decrease the pause times over time.

[andyzzle]

thx man, i gotta admit there are a couple of pretty good things shown...
do you use those training methods too?

[xrobbatesx]

When I read Dogen's site, it said he could do 10 handstand pushups. Pushups are great, but handstand ones are cooler so the goal should be to move up to these by successively inclining by raising feet and going deep.

You'd actually be suprised how many people can do 10 handstand push ups that aint that many actually, but yes i agree, handstand push ups are way more useful/beneficial and generally cooler :smile:

[andyzzle]

anyone seen dead or alive? there's this guy doing one handed handstand pushups on a ball
THAT would be awesome to do!

EDIT: and yes, i know that was a fake

[xrobbatesx]

aha sweeett, not on a ball, but at one point i was pretty close to a one arm handstand push up then i gave up because i stop making progress, i can still do a qaurter rep i think lols

[andyzzle]

seriously? damn you! i can barely do the normal ones!:eh:
anyone else here who can do onehanded handstand pushups?

[Chris H Laing]

when you say hspu, do u mean full rom, hands to shoulders, or head to ground?

Head to ground is pretty easy for anyone to do pretty much right off the bat, but full rom takes some strength

[Ashtar]

Stop trying to mislead people andy, nothing is fake about that.

[andyzzle]

i was talking about the head to floor ones..
hands to shoulders seems almost impossible to me...

[bingor]

Man, handstand push-ups are all kinds of crazy, but the craziest I've seen is the mantis push-up done by one of the folks from Calisthenics Kingz.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eITzzsxvwFc

[andyzzle]

pretty nice...tho i've seen a better variation.
a friend of mine does pushups in normal two handed pushup-position except that his feet don't touch the ground at all. so it's also kind of a handstand pushup...

there's a pretty good vid of a guy on youtube doing them..just type in extreme breakdancing and you'll find it (i'm too lazy to find and post it myself :D)

[Stas.]

a friend of mine does pushups in normal two handed pushup-position except that his feet don't touch the ground at all.


planche push up?

[andyzzle]

yeah, planche push ups...except that he doesn't bend his legs at all...

[Bozzy]

Yah....so a planche push up...

[andyzzle]

yeah, if that is also considered a planche pushup then so shall it be! (checked on google and when i typed planche pushup most of them were in "crouched" position, so i wasnt sure)...

[xrobbatesx]

yeah, if that is also considered a planche pushup then so shall it be! (checked on google and when i typed planche pushup most of them were in "crouched" position, so i wasnt sure)...

They are a lesser progression called ball planch push ups or tuck planch push ups... next level is straddle then of course straight like your freind.. :smile:

[Skippy]

Vids of said friend?

[andyzzle]

i had a sampler of him doing this stuff once, but i can't seem to find it...i'll check if he still has them when i meet him.