Pushups???

[Au Batido]

When I had to do pushups at school in gym class, I made about 30 pushups, but when I try to do pushups at home when I'm trainig, I do barely 10 :eh:

Why is it like this?

[Steve]

Because you lack willpower and were faking them in the first place. Now you're ignored, also.

[Peleke]

Good job. You just got yourself on Steves ignore list. And your problem is you suck. No, I'm joking. You're probably not pushing yourself. Make yourself do 30.

[CanEHdian]

My guess is that you most likley were warmed up when you did the thirty and when you tried at home you just kind of went and did some pushups. being warmed up helps so much.

so do a few stretches, then do soem pushups, then do a few more stretches or other activities and then you should be ready to do 30 again.

[Sigil]

Maybe you wanted to impress your gym class buddies? :)

[anfeyd]

Psychologically we perfom better in front of others. I forget what is exactly called, because I changed my major hah(used to be psychology).

[NatsuGaijin]

Well, there you go.

As for me- I can't even do..... 3 correct ones.
Yeah i know- pathetic. Me arms= weakest part of my body.

But yeah, I agree- you should try to push it up to 30 ^_^
( Even though I'm the wrong person to be talking lmao)

[jackenloper]

Well, there you go.

As for me- I can't even do..... 3 correct ones.
Yeah i know- pathetic. Me arms= weakest part of my body.

But yeah, I agree- you should try to push it up to 30 ^_^
( Even though I'm the wrong person to be talking lmao)

ouch....
Grease the groove my friend.
Thats what i am doing for pistols.

[Kaneda]

For the longest time, I could never do more than 50 pushups. I was doing pushups every day, and for some reason, I could never make it past that arbitrary number.

A lot of it is psychological, but a lot of it is how you train too. Once I stopped doing pushups every day and started giving my muscles a rest, I started being able to do more. When I started resistance training, I found that I could do even more pushups even though I hardly ever did them at all.

[Peleke]

Well, there you go.

As for me- I can't even do..... 3 correct ones.
Yeah i know- pathetic. Me arms= weakest part of my body.

But yeah, I agree- you should try to push it up to 30 ^_^
( Even though I'm the wrong person to be talking lmao)
Your chest is invovled too. I remember I told that to one of my classmates and she yelled, "Boob Muscles? What the FUCK?" I used to be able to do like..60 of 'em. Now, I can't. Meh.

[BigTruck]

I do 80pushups every day (in sets of 10)

I notice if I give myself a day or two for resting i can pull out 15-20pushup for the first set.

When I first started doing pushups (this year) i could only do 2 without stopping, now its 10 (and i'm still hoping to increase that by a lot)

[Peleke]

I do 80pushups every day (in sets of 10)

I notice if I give myself a day or two for resting i can pull out 15-20pushup for the first set.

When I first started doing pushups (this year) i could only do 2 without stopping, now its 10 (and i'm still hoping to increase that by a lot)
Well, I can do around 30-40, maybe 50 if I rest in a set, but I went from being able to do none to 5, to 10, straight to 20, then to 30, etc. But all I did was do pushups, After I could get 5, I got exhilirated and just kept doing them. Good luck with it, hope you get a load of 'em soon.

[NatsuGaijin]

Your chest is invovled too. I remember I told that to one of my classmates and she yelled, "Boob Muscles? What the FUCK?" I used to be able to do like..60 of 'em. Now, I can't. Meh.

Yeah for most girls, but not me. Lmao
Its just these scrawny arms of mine. I mean yeah- they still have muscle,
but they are weak as crap.
Like the time i practically shatted my whole arm while punching
this asshole in the face. T_T

[$ir Tim]

I dunno if it's true, but curling weights seemed to help me with push ups, Max I've done is 55 push ups in 2 mins, seems like the weights helped me alot

[twist]

u want to be able to do more pushups....

do more pushups. simple as that

[aUs_tKd]

my mate gave me this link about 5 mins before i checked out this thread if u want to do more have a look at this.
http://www.musclenet.com/100pushups.html

[tracekillz]

I dunno if it's true, but curling weights seemed to help me with push ups, Max I've done is 55 push ups in 2 mins, seems like the weights helped me alot

congratulations. that is the minimum standard for the united states navy. ;) i suggest you start resistance. but then again..pushups make pushups...benching makes benching. some people just arent good at them.

as for the 2 minute rule..115 straight:wink:

[karatekid]

Yeah for most girls, but not me. Lmao
Its just these scrawny arms of mine. I mean yeah- they still have muscle,
but they are weak as crap.
Like the time i practically shatted my whole arm while punching
this asshole in the face. T_T

Zeff?

[Steve]

Push ups are mostly a chest exercise.

[mattt]

Yep, the thread starter is either just cheating in front of his friends or that's the only way he can get motivated to actually work hard. Either way he's a fag.

I can do about 70 pushups in a set.

[J.B. II]

i can do 30 pushups, branleh. last time i did it was two weeks ago...

[Ashtar]

My guess is that you most likley were warmed up when you did the thirty and when you tried at home you just kind of went and did some pushups. being warmed up helps so much.

so do a few stretches, then do soem pushups, then do a few more stretches or other activities and then you should be ready to do 30 again.
Stretches? Dynamic?

I think a more likely explanation was that you're just more pressured to do it in front of friends and it's easy to be lazy at home. Or, he did them slower at home so it look more endurance.

Or... he just did 30 at school and hadn't recovered from them when he tried to do the 10? *shrug* Or bad form to impress like some guy said (not necessarily intentional, if you're thinking about girls watching you, you're not focusing on form).

Why's it even matter?

[Psychostick]

Psychologically we perfom better in front of others. I forget what is exactly called, because I changed my major hah(used to be psychology).

Drive theory? Or something like that, evaluation-apprehension or distraction-conflict maybe?

[Fretboardninja]

Ive never actually counted my max and I've been doing them for a year. I'll have to try that sometime. But every other day I do

20xregular
20xfist
20xsuperwide
20xtriangle

and I repeat that 3 times