One hundred push ups
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Think I may have been doing a bit of overtraining judging from a ( not good ) pain in my right shoulder. Frustrating but maybe you get that doing this 4 days a week ?<br />
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Will sit out a week and see what happens. I'm also doing the 200 squat routine, smashing the shit out of that so far. -
stink bro, sucks when you are getting into the groove and an injury messes things up. Bit of rest and you'll be back into it.... unless you start a one arm push up programme!!<br />
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Squats are where it's at! None of that shallow squat business mate, you gotta drop it like it's hot! -
[sub]Yep, I think cos my carpark is on the terrace ( Paeks you'll know how hilly Welly is, plimmer steps everyday ! ) I have to walk up the hill and as a result I have a natural affinity for squats, I am absolutely blitzing that so far but after the first two sessions I still ached like farkin anything, the legs trembled walking down stairs the next couple of days. [/sub]<br />
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[sub]You're right, these programmes seem to suit some but it is definitely a "bad" pain in the shoulders, not a worked the muscles hard out kind of pain ! I just have to have the discipline to not do em for a few days which can be tough as it is easy to drop and do xxx amount anytime, anywhere..... [/sub]<br />
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[sub]Apparently Charles Bronson did these kind of workouts and never really touched weights but anyone who's seen his flicks will confirm he was pretty cut up well into his sixties ! that's pretty admirable.... [/sub]<br />
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[sub]Jack Palance from the same era was similar, one armed push ups at 70 is a hell of an effort. [/sub] -
How is your shoulder now? Feeling any better? Reading this thread Hooroo is definitely making fantastic progress, and it'd be good to have updates from Major Rage, JK, mimic, taniwharugby, Voltron <img src='http://www.daimenhutchison.com/rugby/public/style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/good2.gif' class='bbc_emoticon' alt=':good:' /><br />
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[quote name='red terror' timestamp='1340074347' post='293188']Herschel Walker, who is a farkin' beast, used to use the push-up as his main workout........(Fast-fwd to 2:32.....he says he's down from the 5,000 push-ups a day as a college/NFL player, to 750-1,500 push-ups per day now (he's 50 years old and training for MMA).)<br />
[/quote]Thanks for this, I like the concept of doing many, many reps and will keep trying to push myself harder.....maybe in 10 years I can be 1/10th as good as him, in my dreams..... -
Last all out set, 82 of the mutha fuckas, funny, I felt well on the way to getting past 90 but hit the wall really quickly and felt like a weak little girl on numbers 80-82 ! Don't think I'm on track to get to the ton in the time advertised but I'll get there eventually, perhaps by the end of august.<br />
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As discussed still smashing the squats, walking to the car is a farkin breeze now ( not that it was amazingly hard but still, much much easier ) -
82!! that is mean bro. I'm impressed if someone can get beyond 40 let alone 80+<br />
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But you know you won't be able to sleep properly until you make 100! he he he -
Paeks I've seen your benching stats, you'd smash past 40 EASY brudda ! I don't go nose to ground but I put a little paperweight ( about fist sized ) and make sure my chest touches every time, this is better for the shoulders supposedly........<br />
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I hope to see an improvement in my benching, I'm doing the pushups heaps more explosively than even a few weeks back so surely there will be some kind of spillover effect.<br />
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Aw and yeah, the ton is definitely a party trick I want to bust out, helps being a bit lighter than I was, not much but every bit counts. -
At boot camp this morning we had to do 10,9,8,7,6,5,4,3,2,1,1,2,3,4,5,6,7,8,9,10 press ups, so 110 in total and I was thinking about this thread while crying during them....<br />
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I did ten and then stayed in pressup position while training partner did ten and the 9 etc etc.<br />
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When I got to about 5 on the way back up, the form was completely gone and I wouldn't class any from then on in a real press ups. But even so, it was an awesome workout. My flatmate who is a petite but sporty chick managed all 110 full "male" press -ups! -
Good shit Hooroo, I find gritting your teeth and smashing them as fast as you can ( whilst maintaining form ) is the best way. It is easy to lapse into shit form with them but I get the wife to watch and ensure I'm keeping the back straight and all of that. Rotator cuffs are holding up thus far....
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How long does it take for you fellas to complete ya numbers?<br />
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I would presume it slows down a bit past the 50 mark but I started doing 1 min of pressups as part of my circuit and havent counted them yet but must do a fair few - maybe 30 or 40 at a guess -
Yeah would have to be well over a minute I would have thought. Cant see ya cranking out more than 1 pushup a second for that long. Hmm well maybe one could. Hard to tell how quick ya actually do em.<br />
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Might count tomorrow/weds or even try a max pushups tomorrow after spin class -
[b]one minute[/b]: Record claims up to 199 in one minute have been made. We do, however, not continue to publish these record claims, because it became impossible to judge about the correctness of the exercises at this speed. The last record that was accepted by the Guinness Book of Records were138, achieved by [url="http://www.mrpushup.ca"]Roy Berger[/url] (Canada) in on 28 February 2004 in Ottawa. Before, we have also verified 138 pushups in one minute, achieved by William T. Mello (USA) on 30 May 2002. The same statement applies for the category "[b]100 push ups with legs on a 80 cm high table[/b]" where the last verified record was 45.7 seconds by [url="http://www.mrpushup.ca"]Roy Berger[/url] (Canada), achieved on 24 February 2001 in Ottawa, Ontario, Canada<br />
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Most pull ups in a minute is 50 by an American (Jason Petzold, June 2009) scarier though, is a Brit (Stephen Hyland, July 2010) has the record for most in 30 mins - 543. -
Yeah form on those speed efforts must absolutely turn to shit I'd have thought, especially for those with longer arms.<br />
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According to this table I ( and heaps of you other boys ) are in the "excellent" catagory for 17-19 year olds ?!?!? Gotta say I'm a bit dubious about that....<br />
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[url="http://www.topendsports.com/testing/tests/home-pushup.htm"]http://www.topendsports.com/testing/tests/home-pushup.htm[/url] -
Initial test 22 before the form gave out - rank 3 which is pretty ordinary but we'll see how this goes. I might cut back my weight circuit to just this 3 times a week as it looks like a pretty mean workout and gives me a goal to concentrate on.<br />
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Looks like I advance to Week 3. Do not pass GO, do not collect 200 pesos... -
There is also a pull up one, reckonsitll get you doing 50 of those puppies....have you been doing it MN5?
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Reading through the notes on the site, it says you can go to the floor. Are they intimating you can stop on the floor? I was always taught that you can't take the tension off i.e. you hit the floor and go straight back up.<br />
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They also say if you are getting tired to rest between reps - does this mean resting on the floor? You can rest up the top (for all the good it'll do your back) but jeez that sounds a bit easy...
