One Hundred Pushups - Page 16

On October 03 2008 07:16 Jonoman92 wrote:
Darn I didn't stick with this. Maybe i'll try doing it again.

On May 27 2009 11:31 Jonoman92 wrote:


Lol @ myself from 6 months ago. Like you really thought you could do this? You lazy bum!

On May 27 2009 10:44 MaZza[KIS] wrote:



Bruce Lee, Arnold Schwazaza(f*ck the spelling), hell most men with some of the greatest bodies every started with.....

WAIT FOR IT


WAIT FOR ITTTTTTTT


BODY WEIGHTS!!!!! WOOOOO!!!

Even in Pumping Iron Arnie talks about how when they "get back into" body building him and his friends would do body weights first to strengthen their joints.

That's the KEY point here. If you've just STARTED exercising, then using free weights rather then body weights can SEVERLY damage your joints.

Body weight exercises will NEVER give you big muscle, but they will give you enough toned muscle to make you look good (not blown up like a balloon). "Brad Pitt in fight club" body gets you wwwwaaaaaaaay more chicks then "Ronnie Coleman I take too much HGH" body.

On May 28 2009 01:17 Railxp wrote:
i bet if TL had a brawl with scLegacy or sc2gg, we would have the buffest fighters >=0

although im scrawny as hell =p

On May 27 2009 10:44 MaZza[KIS] wrote:



Bruce Lee, Arnold Schwazaza(f*ck the spelling), hell most men with some of the greatest bodies every started with.....

WAIT FOR IT


WAIT FOR ITTTTTTTT


BODY WEIGHTS!!!!! WOOOOO!!!

Even in Pumping Iron Arnie talks about how when they "get back into" body building him and his friends would do body weights first to strengthen their joints.

That's the KEY point here. If you've just STARTED exercising, then using free weights rather then body weights can SEVERLY damage your joints.

Body weight exercises will NEVER give you big muscle, but they will give you enough toned muscle to make you look good (not blown up like a balloon). "Brad Pitt in fight club" body gets you wwwwaaaaaaaay more chicks then "Ronnie Coleman I take too much HGH" body.

On May 27 2009 07:29 Eniram wrote:

lol you think im a meathead? thats hilaaaaarious. sounds like you have displaced nerd rage

On May 27 2009 06:55 Liquid`NonY wrote:

Yep. And they assume that wanting to do 100 push-ups implies wanting a lifetime of complete physical fitness. Or they're just insecure and want to make sure everyone knows that a real routine (what they're doing) is much better and more respectable.

On May 27 2009 09:30 Bockit wrote:
I think he's making a generalisation..

It happens all the time here, for example, someone posts a blog that they're trying to lose weight and have cut the following x bad foods from their diet and are doing y exercises z times a week, and someone comes in and tells them that they aren't doing shit, they should be following <insert extreme diet here> and doing <insert intense workout plan here> or they're deluding themselves.

On May 28 2009 03:03 MiniRoman wrote:


Seriously. It's something about people that exercise, lift, whatever. They can't wait for someone to speak up so they can ramble on to the skies about what you should be doing, what you should be eating, how much, and it's always the same. No nerd rage here, just a constant observation in every thread that involves lifting more than a finger. Annnnnnoooooyyyyying.

On May 28 2009 03:28 dangots0ul wrote:
went to the final test and passed

On August 18 2009 12:53 Phyre wrote:
Sorry for the bump but I figured it was better than making a new thread. Read through the first 10 pages of this thread, will read through the rest tomorrow.

So I just started on the 100pushups.com thing and I'm up to week 4 day 1 and was all happy with myself that I would be stronger once I finished this. After reading this thread though it's a bit discouraging, some of the posts make it sound like this exercise is a waste. I do intend to finish this before moving on to something else though so I have a few questions about what constitutes "good form" pushups.

1) Is your head supposed to be facing the floor or looking parallel to the floor (ie your chin touches the floor)? Most of the vids/pics I've seen demonstrating good form seem to have the head facing the floor so your nose would touch the ground first if you went down all the way.

2) What's the best hand position? I've read a variety of things like doing pushups on your knuckles is better for your wrists, you should have your hands angled inwards towards your chest 45 degrees, etc. Most of the vids though seem to simply have the palms on the floor and fingers facing upwards and parallel to your torso.

3) Am I correct in my understanding that I should have my abs, gluts, and basically as much of my torso/abdomen tensed as possible while doing pushups?

4) Slower is better? I think I read somewhere 2 seconds down, 1 second up?

5) May be a really stupid question but should I be exhaling when I'm going up or going down? I've tried doing both and they both feel fairly natural to me which I'm guessing is weird and/or just poor form.

6) I get the whole "hands closer = tris, hands farther = chest" thing. However, if I wanted to work both would it make more sense to just find a happy medium distance to place my hands or should I do half with my hands practically adjacent to my sides and the other half farther out?

If I missed anything really important to good form pushups, please tell me.

Once I'm done with this 100 pushups plan I'll probably come back here and ask for some more advice on next steps. Got some free weights and equipment that I've been meaning to start making use of and some of you guys sound really knowledgeable this sort of stuff.

Thanks TL!