Pushups

[Kaos666]

i'm currently maxed out and 63... on a good day with good rest beforehand... reguraly i do around 40...

 

but these are knuckle push-ups, i can't do as many regulat ones any more, don't knwo why

 

and by the way, if done properly pushups do increase speed and power of your punches... i've seen it in myself

[granmasterchen]

as long as you practice and work at it everyday you can increase it, its when you stop and take breaks that you lose your endurance.

[White Warlock]

Most everyone does pushups incorrectly (cheating, etc). In truth, the numbers really don't mean much unless you're doing them right... which is unlikely unless you've been in the military, or had appropriate training from a professional.

 

When i was in the army, i would do 96 pushups in under two minutes (correctly done). All in all, every day i would do somewhere around 1000 pushups.

 

Nowadays i can do about 70 pushups in under two minutes, but i hardly make the effort to do more than 70 pushups a month.

 

Yeah, i'm such an elitist has-been.

[Kaos666]

Most everyone does pushups incorrectly (cheating, etc). In truth, the numbers really don't mean much unless you're doing them right... which is unlikely unless you've been in the military, or had appropriate training from a professional.

 

When i was in the army, i would do 96 pushups in under two minutes (correctly done). All in all, every day i would do somewhere around 1000 pushups.

 

Nowadays i can do about 70 pushups in under two minutes, but i hardly make the effort to do more than 70 pushups a month.

 

Yeah, i'm such an elitist has-been.

 

i agree, my sensei shoed me 3 types of push-up, one to work one bicep, one to work on chest and one on tricep muscles... these and other techniques have virtually eliminated m need for weight training!

[Coco]

Notice only the people who can do alot of pushups have posted

 

I can only do 30 and I posted For some reason, i hate pushups though, everytime i see someone doing pushup a chill goes through my spine and i want to run away. BTW, 30 is my map, on a regular day i can do 10-20, only up to 30 if im really inspired by something.

[Shorin Ryuu]

Most everyone does pushups incorrectly (cheating, etc). In truth, the numbers really don't mean much unless you're doing them right... which is unlikely unless you've been in the military, or had appropriate training from a professional.

 

When i was in the army, i would do 96 pushups in under two minutes (correctly done). All in all, every day i would do somewhere around 1000 pushups.

 

Nowadays i can do about 70 pushups in under two minutes, but i hardly make the effort to do more than 70 pushups a month.

 

Yeah, i'm such an elitist has-been.

 

I'm an Air Force guy (yeah yeah, insert Air Force joke here). That being said, I used to be able to do about 110 pushups in under two minutes (correctly done, especially by Army standards...by the way, there is no "rest position" in the Air Force pushups... ). At any rate, I will concede that the Air Force physical fitness test is a joke...

 

Sheesh, where was I...I do probably about 80 or so pushups under two minutes now, as it is no longer a focus of my training...

 

Its been a long time since I've actually just done them straight to exhaustion and beyond (and then it was hard to count, during Basic and Freshman year at the academy...)...so I wouldn't even know the max number straight.

 

There was that one day when we did 2004 pushups (class year) in sets of 400...

[manuelito]

now i was assuming this is based on how many pushups in one minute. i can do 50 full pushups hands shoulder's width apart. definition of full pushup=back straight at all times, go down until nose touches floor. i hope one day to reach 75-100. i think it will be a while i have been stuck at 50 for some time now.

[manuelito]

now i was assuming this is based on how many pushups in one minute. i can do 50 full pushups hands shoulder's width apart. definition of full pushup=back straight at all times, go down until nose touches floor. i hope one day to reach 75-100. i think it will be a while i have been stuck at 50 for some time now.

 

SORRY i accidently posted twice

[markusan]

What do you consider a correct army pushup? We do ours on the two punching knuckles, fists shoulder width apart, elbows in tight to the sides chest almost to the floor (gi touches) fast up and slower down.

 

I'd like to know what type of pushup works the biceps?

[Shorin Ryuu]

I think what both I and White Warlock mean is that the back is perfectly straight and the entire body moves as one unit until the back goes lower than the plane of the bent elbow (the chest just gets real close, but not touching, the ground). Then when you go back up, the back is still straight and the body moves as an entire unit up until the arms are fully locked out. The arms are not ridiculously far apart (some people try to cheat on this) and the face is forward rather than down. Most people who haven't had this military training (nothing against them, but just something I've noticed) usually have some bend up or down (even if it is small) in their back and don't usually go all the way up or down. Worse still is the tendency of some people to merely bob the head up and down...