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Kommatiazo
United States579 Posts
haven't done a pushup since.  maybe I'll try this with you. My advice to you is to stay REALLY loose. If you spend 5 minutes doing your pushups spend 5 minutes stretching before (gently, don't over stretch) and a bit afterwards. I stretched a ton when I was going for 1k, but not often enough. I couldn't even play starcraft my shoulder was so fucked for about 2 weeks. This program looks nicely paced so you should be fine though.glhf! | ||
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Yorbon
Netherlands4272 Posts
On May 31 2015 04:08 Zealously wrote: I heard from someone that the position of your hands on the ground were influencing which muscles you work out as well. He said putting your hands closer together would be much heavier on your shoulders, while widening the gap would be heavy on the breast muscle (pectoralis major in wiki).Proper pushups are by no means meaningless or anything of the sort. Proper technique is key, though, otherwise you're not really working with the intended muscles. Good luck with this, micronesia! Keep us updated  It seems pretty believable, but I haven't actually tried that out; could someone confirm/deny this? | ||
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fmod
Cayman Islands330 Posts
On May 31 2015 04:42 Yorbon wrote: I heard from someone that the position of your hands on the ground were influencing which muscles you work out as well. He said putting your hands closer together would be much heavier on your shoulders, while widening the gap would be heavy on the breast muscle (pectoralis major in wiki). It seems pretty believable, but I haven't actually tried that out; could someone confirm/deny this? You could find it out just by doing both and feeling? | ||
micronesia
United States24767 Posts
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pretender58
Germany713 Posts
On May 31 2015 04:42 Yorbon wrote: I heard from someone that the position of your hands on the ground were influencing which muscles you work out as well. He said putting your hands closer together would be much heavier on your shoulders, while widening the gap would be heavy on the breast muscle (pectoralis major in wiki). It seems pretty believable, but I haven't actually tried that out; could someone confirm/deny this? From my experience, putting your hands farther apart is heavier on the breast muscle. Putting your hands close (so that the thumbs touch eachother) feels heavy on the triceps (unsure about shoulder) | ||
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ninazerg
United States7291 Posts
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Zealously
East Gorteau22261 Posts
On May 31 2015 04:42 Yorbon wrote: I heard from someone that the position of your hands on the ground were influencing which muscles you work out as well. He said putting your hands closer together would be much heavier on your shoulders, while widening the gap would be heavy on the breast muscle (pectoralis major in wiki). It seems pretty believable, but I haven't actually tried that out; could someone confirm/deny this? It's true that the positioning of your hands determines which muscles work the most in pushups. Close together puts the most strain on the triceps, whereas farther apart strains chest/shoulders (depending on where your hands are relative to your shoulders, broadly speaking). It's something better | ||
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Cambium
United States16368 Posts
Being able to do 100 push ups is kind of meh, doesn't really help you that much, except being good at push ups. | ||
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ne4aJIb
Russian Federation3209 Posts
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Jerubaal
United States7684 Posts
On May 31 2015 04:08 Zealously wrote: Proper pushups are by no means meaningless or anything of the sort. Proper technique is key, though, otherwise you're not really working with the intended muscles. Good luck with this, micronesia! Keep us updated His point is that at a certain point, you're not actually getting stronger. You're just getting better at doing pushups. | ||
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Cambium
United States16368 Posts
http://www.teamliquid.net/forum/general/76741-one-hundred-pushups | ||
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mooose
Japan200 Posts
This means you'll be focusing on building strength rather than just endurance. Rather than aiming at 100 push ups, the goal of the push up series of exercises in the book is to be able to do 1-arm push ups. The book presents a nice progression of 10 steps from really easy exercises, through normal push ups and up until the final 1-arm push ups. Being able to do 1-arm push ups is a very distant goal for someone like me but it's nice to have a long term goal I guess, and the there's plenty of other more attainable short term goals in the form of the other 9 steps. Tbh I haven't really made any progress getting started recently and have a variety of excuses, gonna try and start again properly tomorrow. | ||
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E-Volving
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helpman176
128 Posts
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KelsierSC
United Kingdom10443 Posts
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Shock710
Australia6097 Posts
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Tufas
Austria2259 Posts
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Biolunar
Germany224 Posts
On May 31 2015 20:47 Tufas wrote: Call me when you can do 100 military push-ups. Its not like they are very different, its just that your instructor goes "doesn't count - doesn't count - doesn't count - okay that one was fine - doesn't count - doesn't count" Hah, I remember those :D Good times. | ||
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Randomaccount#77123
United States5003 Posts
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radscorpion9
Canada2252 Posts
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