EPTIs anyone else interested in doing this with me? I'm at Rank 3 right now and I'm starting Week 1 - Day 1 today.
One Hundred Pushups
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GrandInquisitor
New York City13113 Posts
Is anyone else interested in doing this with me? I'm at Rank 3 right now and I'm starting Week 1 - Day 1 today. | ||
Last Romantic
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fusionsdf
Canada15390 Posts
so that makes me rank 4 I guess? I'll do it | ||
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ilovejonn
Canada2548 Posts
IMA DO IT TOO! | ||
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brian
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Ancestral
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Deleted User 31060
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Technically I'm in week 4, but I'm at the low end of it (I do 30) | ||
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Ozarugold
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Might as well do this too, always wanted to do 100 push ups~ | ||
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EGMachine
United States1643 Posts
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ToT)OjKa(
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fusionsdf
Canada15390 Posts
On August 12 2008 03:36 Ancestral wrote: Yeah at my dojo we were always chastized when our chest didn't touch the ground. haha Ive always been trained something similar - your nose has to touch the ground | ||
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fusionsdf
Canada15390 Posts
On August 12 2008 03:39 Machine[USA] wrote: i just did 65 pushups consecutivly but i dont quite understand the levels or whatever, I think they are saying to do 2 sets of 5 pushups then 4 sets of 10 then 6 sets of 10 or more? I think thats what it is I think my plan for today is 10 pushups wait 60 seconds 10 pushups wait 8 wait 6 wait max which seems pretty easy | ||
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cRaZypYRo
Germany191 Posts
there was a time where i used to make 15-14-13-12-11-10-to 1 | ||
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Krowser
Canada788 Posts
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tiffany
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On August 12 2008 03:36 Ancestral wrote: Yeah at my dojo we were always chastized when our chest didn't touch the ground. your chest isn't supposed to touch the ground. | ||
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IMlemon
Lithuania296 Posts
edit: taking a look at their site, do pushups on your knuckles. Doing them on your palms, well... such position isn't natural, if you put lots of pressure on it bad things might happen to your wrists. Wrists are much stronger when they're in line with rest of the hand. | ||
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DragoonPK
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Pads
England3228 Posts
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Knickknack
United States1187 Posts
This will improve mostly the chest. I'm barely lvl 4 so i just skipped to week 2 today. Doing pushups with dumbells in hands. The whole program is 3x per week, 5sets doing less with more rest as you go along. | ||
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cRaZypYRo
Germany191 Posts
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pokeyAA
United States936 Posts
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IzzyCraft
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Chef
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i can do 100 pushups, it doesnt make you all that buff buddy, im still a scrawny mofo. the weight of your own body isnt enough. i even put my legs on my bed so i can get incline and make it tougher, cant really get 100 there but its still just not workin out. Do them slower and pause half-way thru. The only reason you're getting to 100 is momentum if you consider yourself scrawny. Also: The closer your hands are together on the floor, the harder the pushup will be. | ||
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JeeJee
Canada5652 Posts
2 second lower, 1 second raise, keeping your back straight and looking forward .. those ones are hard edit: just looked at the site. i would advise against doing it on your palms too. try knuckles on something like a carpet or get one of those special pushup things you can hold onto (sort of like a handle) | ||
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Sadir
Vatican City State1176 Posts
On August 12 2008 03:46 IMlemon wrote: Doing pushups in a good form is much harder than doing pushups. I could do about 60, when I started doing them in good form I can do about 15, 20 if I really stress myself. And doing those 20 is much better than doing 60 crappy ones for your muscles. edit: taking a look at their site, do pushups on your knuckles. Doing them on your palms, well... such position isn't natural, if you put lots of pressure on it bad things might happen to your wrists. Wrists are much stronger when they're in line with rest of the hand. totally agree | ||
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geometryb
United States1249 Posts
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Peanuts.
United States378 Posts
I've actually started working out more. When i started working out i could only do 20, but im at 40 now. | ||
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cRaZypYRo
Germany191 Posts
so i've made 55today for the initial test therefore i begin on wednesday with week 1 column 3 | ||
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Chef
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edit: taking a look at their site, do pushups on your knuckles. Doing them on your palms, well... such position isn't natural, if you put lots of pressure on it bad things might happen to your wrists. Wrists are much stronger when they're in line with rest of the hand. What if you slip? Then you're pretty much guaranteed to fuck up your wrist. | ||
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Frits
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I always do 80 before I go to sleep. Working up to 80 or 100 isn't that hard, but it takes discipline to keep doing it forever, don't slack off. I even do it (or at least try) when Im sick or drunk. | ||
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JeeJee
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bladebrood
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i weigh like nothing so this should be ez wins | ||
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brian
United States9616 Posts
On August 12 2008 04:01 PsycHOTemplar wrote: Do them slower and pause half-way thru. The only reason you're getting to 100 is momentum if you consider yourself scrawny. Also: The closer your hands are together on the floor, the harder the pushup will be. i take it slow very slow, but dont pause, yeah i would barely hit 60 i bet if i paused heheh i'll start making my hands diamonds see how far i can get :X | ||
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ZpuX
Sweden1230 Posts
On August 12 2008 04:01 PsycHOTemplar wrote: Also: The closer your hands are together on the floor, the harder the pushup will be. well you are training totally different muscles with your hands closer together... Big gap = breast Small gap = triceps also, I think pushups are worthless in terms of muscle growth. | ||
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Frits
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On August 12 2008 04:14 Gene wrote: i take it slow very slow, but dont pause, yeah i would barely hit 60 i bet if i paused heheh i'll start making my hands diamonds see how far i can get :X Probably depends on the person, I don't do my pushups really thoroughly but it got me pretty buff, broad shoulders and big manboobies. My weight is around 64kg. Define scrawny. :p | ||
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Night[Mare
Mexico4793 Posts
 . Im with you OP | ||
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brian
United States9616 Posts
im definitely not as scrawny as some people here, i'd be more than willing to bet. just not content :D i slowed it down TREMENDOUSLY and barely got to sixty. regardless, im doing it. imo we shoudl sticky the thread and get TL into a pushup routine | ||
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shavingcream66
United States1219 Posts
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Cobalt
United States441 Posts
In my left wrist, I have something called a "ganglion cyst," which causes intense pain if I bend it back too far. Even worse if I put weight on it. In other words, a push-up causes my left wrist to scream out in pain, eventually giving out. About doing push-ups on your knuckles, my phys. ed. instructor has told me that doing so is risky and unsafe. I didn't completely understand why, but I think he said it had something to do with applying too much force to a too-small area, and causing more damage than good. Thus, I refrain from doing it that way. I've had this cyst for almost 10 months now. | ||
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Freaky[x]
Canada995 Posts
this 100 push up shit is good for endurance only and is not even good for people that start to work out anyways, it's for people who are trying to find an easy way out of actually taking the time to learn and properly train in the gym or at a local sport facility. See, I'd rather do 20 push ups with a 45lbs plate (or somebody) on my back with good form, then do 100 with good form which will not give me more strength or power, just endurance and anyways I can acquire endurance any other way too. It's better to go outside and do chores or play american football then doing this crap EXCEPT if it's for a specific discipline. *end rant* Push ups is a good strength exercise, but you have to have a straight back and ass tucked in aka belly in, anus in. You also need to have your stabilizers ready beforehand. Doing exercises for the rotator cuff, the other shoulder muscles, the core, the lower back (part of the core but still needs emphasis),mid and upper back will give you a better body (health wise and look). Oh and don't forget legs. | ||
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OakHill
United States168 Posts
On August 12 2008 03:31 GrandInquisitor wrote: http://hundredpushups.com/index.html Is anyone else interested in doing this with me? I'm at Rank 3 right now and I'm starting Week 1 - Day 1 today. I have no idea why people care about pushups. Stick with bench press if you actually give a shit about your upper body. Edit: Lol, I read the description where they say pushups are good for defining your abs. Hahaha  -OakHill | ||
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pokeyAA
United States936 Posts
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naventus
United States1337 Posts
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bioboyAT
Austria1763 Posts
On August 12 2008 05:20 naventus wrote: Can we make a thread, or if someone is knowledgeable, about a full workout routine with minimal equipment? something like that would be awesome | ||
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Orome
Switzerland11984 Posts
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mikeymoo
Canada7170 Posts
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FirstBorn
Romania3955 Posts
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littlechava
United States7216 Posts
On August 12 2008 05:20 naventus wrote: Can we make a thread, or if someone is knowledgeable, about a full workout routine with minimal equipment? http://bodybuilding.com/fun/exercises.php?MainMuscle=&Equip=BodyOnly&Isolation= theres a list here, but it'd be nice for a full routine yeah :O | ||
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Deleted User 3420
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Deleted User 3420
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On August 12 2008 05:20 naventus wrote: Can we make a thread, or if someone is knowledgeable, about a full workout routine with minimal equipment? I will do that. What do you want? something for building muscle mass? something for functional strength? do you want aerobic conditioning to be included? Do you want something that tells you exactly what to do, with exact progressions, or something with a little more freedom of choice? | ||
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Wurzelbrumpft
Germany471 Posts
Other own bodyweight exercises are dips ( http://www.sebulba.de/training/uebungslehre/df081993e1086bf28.html ) and chin-ups. If your able to do more then 15reps of one of these exercises you can also use a backpack and put books or weights in it. | ||
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tiffany
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On August 12 2008 05:10 OakHill wrote: I have no idea why people care about pushups. Stick with bench press if you actually give a shit about your upper body. Edit: Lol, I read the description where they say pushups are good for defining your abs. Hahaha -OakHill actually pushups are good for abs. if your abs aren't tense when you are doing them your form is wrong. On August 12 2008 05:20 naventus wrote: Can we make a thread, or if someone is knowledgeable, about a full workout routine with minimal equipment? http://buzzfeed.com/scott/minimalist-workouts you can't really mass gain without added weights though. | ||
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Deleted User 3420
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On August 12 2008 06:12 tiffany wrote: you can't really mass gain without added weights though. not true ! | ||
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Wurzelbrumpft
Germany471 Posts
on the contrary, that is true. hypertrophie(musclegrowth) happens at a rep range between 5-20. Not saying that 4 or 21 reps wont result in musclegrowth, its actually more about the time under tension(tut), meaning the time you need to finish 1 set. it is commonly accepted that a tut of 30 seconds or less results in more maximal strenth, a tut of 30-90 seconds results in musclegrowth, and a tut of 90 seconds or more will result in muscle endurance. so when your at the point when you can do pushups for more then 1 and half minutes at a time, it wont get you bigger muscles. Of course if its functional strenth that you want you shouldnt care about that, and just do as many as you can. ps: i know alot about this stuff, ive been training at a gym since 12 years, participating in bench press tourneys and whatnot.. | ||
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Skittled
United States160 Posts
edit: actually, its a good thing though. nothing better than a community full of buffed up starcraft players. | ||
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Deleted User 3420
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On August 12 2008 06:26 Wurzelbrumpft wrote: on the contrary, that is true. hypertrophie(musclegrowth) happens at a rep range between 5-20. Not saying that 4 or 21 reps wont result in musclegrowth, its actually more about the time under tension(tut), meaning the time you need to finish 1 set. it is commonly accepted that a tut of 30 seconds or less results in more maximal strenth, a tut of 30-90 seconds results in musclegrowth, and a tut of 90 seconds or more will result in muscle endurance. so when your at the point when you can do pushups for more then 1 and half minutes at a time, it wont get you bigger muscles. Of course if its functional strenth that you want you shouldnt care about that, and just do as many as you can. ps: i know alot about this stuff, ive been training at a gym since 12 years, participating in bench press tourneys and whatnot.. ok well it isn't true. im writing my workout right now it will tell how to build muscle mass without weights. it is about leverage. | ||
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Cloud[rA]
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Skittled
United States160 Posts
1 minute of crunches 1 minute oblique crunches left 1 minute oblique crunches right 1 minute of reverse crunches 1 minute thrust ups 1 minute bicycles 1 minute leg lifts/elevators 30 second holding the crunch position at a 30 degree angle it'll suck the first few times, then it gets kinda easy. increase it to two sets, then 3, etc. do each exercise nonstop and no rest in between | ||
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Wurzelbrumpft
Germany471 Posts
But what most of you probably want is some model figure with a sixpack and if thats what you want, then the only thing you need is a diet, since a sixpack has nothing to do with your actual abdominal muscle, but only about your bodyfat percentage wich should be 11% or less to have a visible sixpack @ travis: dude i don´t know where you get your information, or what experience you have to back up what your claiming here, but don´t tell people they will get muscular by doing pushups, thats just not gonna happen | ||
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LonelyMargarita
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On August 12 2008 06:26 Wurzelbrumpft wrote: it is commonly accepted that a tut of 30 seconds or less results in more maximal strenth, a tut of 30-90 seconds results in musclegrowth, and a tut of 90 seconds or more will result in muscle endurance. Unless you can link to a source, I gotta think that's wrong. Almost all the hypertrophy routines I've read about have between 3 and 6 reps per set and were not slow up or slow down sets, so they are all shorter than 30 seconds in duration. Granted, the extreme end of most strength routines are below that, at 1-3 reps for some of the sets, but I still don't think time of set is a serious factor. I believe the primary determinant of hypertrophy vs strength (along with #reps/set) is time BETWEEN sets. Hypertrophy routines are usually in the middle with 45-90 seconds between sets. Circuit routines (endurance) can have less than that (or just more reps), and strength routines more than that. | ||
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TheOvermind77
United States923 Posts
Travis: A thread about how to build and tone muscles without weights would be awesome! Right now I'm not near campus and so I can't use the gym, and it's pissing me off trying to think of ways to work all of my muscle groups completely. | ||
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Wurzelbrumpft
Germany471 Posts
just think about it logically it cant be the time between sets. If you take a weight do a set, then immediateley do another one, it wouldnt have mattered, if you waited after the first set or not cause the weight wasn´t high enough any way. Of course the time between sets in a strenth routine and a hypertrophy routine is is different. But thats only because a set in a strength routine is much more demanding of your muscles and your central nervous system and you will be forced to pause for a longer time anyway.. | ||
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CharlieMurphy
United States22895 Posts
wait I don't see how the program works? You just do 100 pushups every day (in sets or throughout the day?) until you can do them all in one go? PS- http://www.teamliquid.net/blogs/viewblog.php?id=58241 | ||
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Kennigit
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LonelyMargarita
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On August 12 2008 06:58 Wurzelbrumpft wrote: since im only active in german training forums and sites, it wont do you any good if i put a link here, but as i wrote before you shouldnt be fixated on the number of reps. there are a million ways of performing a repetition, from taking a second to 10seconds positive phase to 10seconds negative phase. Its about the time under tension.. just think about it logically it cant be the time between sets. If you take a weight do a set, then immediateley do another one, it wouldnt have mattered, if you waited after the first set or not cause the weight wasn´t high enough any way. Of course the time between sets in a strenth routine and a hypertrophy routine is is different. But thats only because a set in a strength routine is much more demanding of your muscles and your central nervous system and you will be forced to pause for a longer time anyway.. www.t-nation.com Read up. EDIT: just googled "time between sets" and this came up, which explains it too: http://worldfitnessnetwork.com/index.php/rest-between-sets/ | ||
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aTnClouD
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naventus
United States1337 Posts
On August 12 2008 05:32 Orome wrote: What kind of workout routine exactly are you looking for naventus? Overall workout - I'm not even sure how to break it down at all so that's a starting point. On August 12 2008 06:06 travis wrote: I will do that. What do you want? something for building muscle mass? something for functional strength? do you want aerobic conditioning to be included? Do you want something that tells you exactly what to do, with exact progressions, or something with a little more freedom of choice? Exactly would be great I think for a beginner. In time, as I research more after some fundamentals, I think I would tweak it. But since you are really writing for a complete novice that would be great. Something holistic would be good - in the sense that I'm interested in taking up climbing, and I would like to be fit for that, but I don't care about, say, how much I could bench. EDIT: Btw thanks a lot for offering to put your thoughts on paper. | ||
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suxN
Finland1167 Posts
 Not that interested about maximum strenght or big muscles. | ||
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Deleted User 3420
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On August 12 2008 08:08 suxN wrote: travis if youre hyped about doing the workout thingie, id appreciate if it was to build explosiveness and endurance Not that interested about maximum strenght or big muscles.I will reply here about building explosiveness and endurance. To build explosiveness, do plyometric versions of your current excersizes, and explosive versions. Plyometrics means that you use the elasticity of your muscles to train them to contract in a specific way - eh I can't explain it very well you can look it up if you want. Basically, examples of plyometric excersizes are clapping pushups, squat jumps, depth jumps. I actually know quite a few so if you are interested I can PM you some good stuff, I am just too lazy to get into it right now. Explosive excersizes just require you to muster up everything you've got as quick as you can. Olympic lifts are explosive in nature. You can also make difficult excersizes like pullups or dips or squats explosive by giving everything you can at once. An example of this would be a pullup where you try to pull yourself up and above the bar(using momentum), or dips where from the bottom you try to push yourself up and explode to where your hands have to let go of whatever equipment you are using. To build endurance - just constantly seek to increase the duration/amount of work you are doing in your workouts. Just be careful to vary things, or you increase your chance of injury. | ||
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riotjune
United States3392 Posts
Very informative post Travis | ||
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bdams19
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IMlemon
Lithuania296 Posts
http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=4r9ekiouB_8 Also other vids by the guy are pretty good, as well as his site. | ||
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Orome
Switzerland11984 Posts
On August 12 2008 08:01 naventus wrote: Something holistic would be good - in the sense that I'm interested in taking up climbing, and I would like to be fit for that, but I don't care about, say, how much I could bench. travis wrote up a nice guide in the other thread, but if you want to get fit for climbing, just start climbing straight away, best thing you can do. Stamina and strength is discipline specific (which is why being ripped doesn't necessarily mean you'd make a good construction worker). | ||
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suxN
Finland1167 Posts
On August 12 2008 08:25 travis wrote: I will reply here about building explosiveness and endurance. To build explosiveness, do plyometric versions of your current excersizes, and explosive versions. Plyometrics means that you use the elasticity of your muscles to train them to contract in a specific way - eh I can't explain it very well you can look it up if you want. Basically, examples of plyometric excersizes are clapping pushups, squat jumps, depth jumps. I actually know quite a few so if you are interested I can PM you some good stuff, I am just too lazy to get into it right now. Explosive excersizes just require you to muster up everything you've got as quick as you can. Olympic lifts are explosive in nature. You can also make difficult excersizes like pullups or dips or squats explosive by giving everything you can at once. An example of this would be a pullup where you try to pull yourself up and above the bar(using momentum), or dips where from the bottom you try to push yourself up and explode to where your hands have to let go of whatever equipment you are using. To build endurance - just constantly seek to increase the duration/amount of work you are doing in your workouts. Just be careful to vary things, or you increase your chance of injury. I think im in love with you and your aces, thanks! But there is still something that isnt quite clear for me, should i do 5-20 explosive repeats, and then ~50 repeats with lighter weights for endurance, then repeat. Or should i just do lots of explosive repeats with light weights? And feel free to PM all the good stuff when you got time, im mainly playing stuff like soccer, floorball(kinda like icehockey with shoes), basketball, tennis.. so legs and torso need some workout | ||
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xhuwin
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Deleted User 3420
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On August 12 2008 09:33 suxN wrote: I think im in love with you and your aces, thanks! But there is still something that isnt quite clear for me, should i [b]do 5-20 explosive repeats, and then ~50 repeats with lighter weights for endurance[b], then repeat. Or should i just do lots of explosive repeats with light weights? And feel free to PM all the good stuff when you got time, im mainly playing stuff like soccer, floorball(kinda like icehockey with shoes), basketball, tennis.. so legs and torso need some workout that one is closer. if you're gonna do multiple sets, do your explosive/plyo sets first, then do your endurance sets. | ||
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Polemarch
Canada1564 Posts
On August 12 2008 09:57 xhuwin wrote: Haha I started this a while back.. I'm on week 5 day 3 right now. Do we have a lifehacker reader here? I'm doing this too at week 4 day 2. I'm pretty much just at the limit of being able to do that quantity in rank 3 in reasonably good form pushups. It starts off really easy but the number grows relatively quickly. | ||
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HeadBangaa
United States6512 Posts
On August 12 2008 04:11 Frits wrote: Initial test: 100 without problems, gg test. I always do 80 before I go to sleep. Doesn't that keep you up? | ||
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ZoDD
Canada309 Posts
flip --> 10 do 10 push ups flip --> 6 do 6 push ups --------repeat do till ya die. people who cannot do 10 push ups in a row should not do this. | ||
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MiniRoman
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rpf
United States2705 Posts
Push ups are one of the basic and most common exercises for the human body. Push ups are not only great for your chest, but do a tremendous job of defining your abs, triceps, shoulders and torso. Is there an exercise like this for the lower body? I remember when I did pushups all the time in high school. I actually had muscle tone; I felt great. Then I stopped, started eating out all the time, and it all went to shit. | ||
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OakHill
United States168 Posts
On August 12 2008 06:12 tiffany wrote: actually pushups are good for abs. if your abs aren't tense when you are doing them your form is wrong. http://buzzfeed.com/scott/minimalist-workouts you can't really mass gain without added weights though. My abs also tense when I poop or sneeze. You obviously don't have any abs if you are advocating the fact this helps to define abs, so does pretty much every other exercise basically. | ||
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Cloud[rA]
Canada60 Posts
On August 12 2008 06:45 Skittled wrote: cloud: for sit ups, try this drill: 1 minute of crunches 1 minute oblique crunches left 1 minute oblique crunches right 1 minute of reverse crunches 1 minute thrust ups 1 minute bicycles 1 minute leg lifts/elevators 30 second holding the crunch position at a 30 degree angle it'll suck the first few times, then it gets kinda easy. increase it to two sets, then 3, etc. do each exercise nonstop and no rest in between ahh kk thanks man. just one question. what is a reverse crunch? I have never heard of that. I kno all the others tho. and should I do that without any breaks or take a break in between each one like the push-up one. I wonder if I will be able to stay dedicated if I actually have something to follow rather then just do whatever I feel like doing each day :O | ||
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Deleted User 3420
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I think he is underestimating how long a minute is when you are going nonstop. | ||
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Orome
Switzerland11984 Posts
You might want to start with 30. | ||
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Deleted User 3420
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now im curious lol hmmm I looked up thrust-ups and they are straight-legged jumps? I thought they were like candlestick presses lol. and I see that it's bicycles not bicycle crunches right? maybe this isn't as insanely difficult as I thought, but it still looks pretty hard | ||
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YoUr_KiLLeR
United States3420 Posts
On August 12 2008 08:43 bdams19 wrote: haha i love the fitness arguments on the sc site because if you play sc then theres no way that you can be fit. | ||
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Orome
Switzerland11984 Posts
On August 12 2008 12:40 travis wrote: what kind of team is this? soccer or rugby or something? ohhh, is it a basketball team? now im curious lol hmmm I looked up thrust-ups and they are straight-legged jumps? I thought they were like candlestick presses lol. and I see that it's bicycles not bicycle crunches right? maybe this isn't as insanely difficult as I thought, but it still looks pretty hard Handball, but not the Handball you have in the states. Video. Requires a very thoroughly trained body, especially upper body and stable core. | ||
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Orome
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sqwert
United States781 Posts
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L!MP
Australia2067 Posts
On August 12 2008 03:33 Last Romantic wrote: Their good form pushups aren't particularly good form. Haha. what is not good form about the gif on the website? | ||
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tenringer
United States31 Posts
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GrandInquisitor
New York City13113 Posts
On August 12 2008 10:41 ZoDD wrote: 52 card deck flip --> 10 do 10 push ups flip --> 6 do 6 push ups --------repeat do till ya die. people who cannot do 10 push ups in a row should not do this. Make it better: Heart - regular pushup Diamond - diamond pushup Club - clap pushup Spade - elevated pushup | ||
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Deleted User 3420
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On August 12 2008 11:34 rpf wrote: Is there an exercise like this for the lower body? I remember when I did pushups all the time in high school. I actually had muscle tone; I felt great. Then I stopped, started eating out all the time, and it all went to shit. squats (or pistols if u dont have weights) | ||
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Skittled
United States160 Posts
reverse crunches: keep your hands under your back/butt. now lift your legs up to touch your chest, and put them back down. if you can't feel it, then clamp a ball in between your legs and squeeze. this tenses your abs. | ||
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Deleted User 3420
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On August 13 2008 12:04 Skittled wrote: travis i done that many many times. i understand you are a climber, but wrestlers like me need the strength and endurance. and it's not like i do 60 of each exercise in that one minute, i do around 35-45 depending on how tired i am and how hard i am going. reverse crunches: keep your hands under your back/butt. now lift your legs up to touch your chest, and put them back down. if you can't feel it, then clamp a ball in between your legs and squeeze. this tenses your abs. yeah i misunderstood a couple of the excersizes it actually sounds like a pretty badass workout | ||
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brian
United States9616 Posts
who's in? GI dont quit yet! | ||
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ryung70
Germany227 Posts
can you spot the mistake in this video? | ||
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mikeymoo
Canada7170 Posts
On August 14 2008 02:33 Gene wrote: week one, day two mofos. who's in? GI dont quit yet! I'm in. Just did my 12 12 10 10 43 I certainly feel stronger. | ||
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HamerD
United Kingdom1922 Posts
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antiq
Slovakia191 Posts
On August 12 2008 03:37 Ozarugold wrote: After you do like 40, it just becomes an endurance test... Might as well do this too, always wanted to do 100 push ups~ More like after 15. If you want strength, 5-10 reps is good, 15+ is more into the endurance area.. but endurance is good too, and the psychological aspect is also noteworthy - if you can bring yourself to 100 pushups, you can achieve other things too. But anyway, for exercising chest, dips and handstand pushups are next if we stay in the "my own weight" territory. You can find some good stuff about useful fitness here http://www.americanparkour.com/smf/index.php?board=14.0 or here http://crossfit.com/ edit:: damn, I thought I read all the stuff that has been already posted but now I feel like I didn't contribute that much with all the pros here ^^' oh wait, the sites are pretty good, ha! Btw I can do 100 PUs with a slightly bad form on a good day aand I'm 1.78m/55kg (~5'10'/120lbs) so no, it won't make you buff :p | ||
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Canada1857 Posts
I can't do lots of normal push ups in a row, now some may think I'm just weak, MAYBE* that's the case. However, I can actually do push ups easier when my back legs are at a higher incline. Does that just mean a specific muscle is weaker than the other? If so, what muscle is causing it so I can train it. (It's quiet annoying, I've always had that problem) | ||
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starting from week 3 day 1 two days from now | ||
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antiq
Slovakia191 Posts
On August 14 2008 18:48 Krohm wrote:+ Show Spoiler + I'm bumping this because I have a question when it comes to dealing with push ups, I'd also like to know if anyone else has this weird problem. I can't do lots of normal push ups in a row, now some may think I'm just weak, MAYBE* that's the case. However, I can actually do push ups easier when my back legs are at a higher incline. Does that just mean a specific muscle is weaker than the other? If so, what muscle is causing it so I can train it. (It's quiet annoying, I've always had that problem) What about your front legs? =p But srsly, nothing wrong with you, just concentrate on proper form and try to improve endurance - this whole 100pushups thing is all about that. The fact that you can't do much but easily can do pushups in a more difficult position (assuming you maintain proper form) probably means that your muscles are more strength based than endurance based - on an unrelated note, try if you can do a weighted pullup - if you can do one with like 30lbs weight (backpack or smth) you're definitely not weak. About the various muscle groups, I'm not any expert but obviously, if legs higher is easier and you want to train the opposite, do dips. | ||
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On August 14 2008 03:34 ryung70 wrote: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BQLOWeZt0bQ&feature=related can you spot the mistake in this video? his legs aren't stretched what an idiot lol | ||
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jjun212
Canada2208 Posts
this 100 thing is amateur shit | ||
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Krohm
Canada1857 Posts
He wasn't even looking up either. He was going way too fast, he was getting momentum, you don't want that when you're working out. Like ever. | ||
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it could be largely a flexibility issue for you | ||
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decafchicken
United States20007 Posts
On August 14 2008 23:00 dragoonkf wrote: Hey guys i need to ask a question, you see i want to follow this program, but cant do a good form push up, i.e the chest almost touching the floor. My chest will always be halfway down and that is the maximum. I can do around 12-14 of it. Should i follow the program with such pushups or train until i can do a full push up ? Thanks ! Max as in thats as far down as you can go before you can't push up or thats as far as you can go because your arms dont bend any farther? solutions: a) get stronger b) stretch -> get more flexible | ||
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mikeymoo
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Oh EDIT: 15/13/10/10/43! And to all the haters saying that 100 pushups is nothing- realize that most of us here are nerds who are not necessarily unfit- but would like to improve our health. I frankly don't care how many you can do, this is about self improvement. | ||
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CubEdIn
Romania5359 Posts
I didn't think this would actually work. Really. When I did 19 at first I thought that was the absolute max for me. Now 15 seems ok, and it's only been like a week. Also, whoever said this doesn't help your abs, they're wrong. I'm not saying that it will form your ab muscles, but they're certainly tense if you do them correctly. I had a bit of delayed soreness after the first day, but it went away rather fast. | ||
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Hypnosis
United States2061 Posts
On August 14 2008 18:48 Krohm wrote: I'm bumping this because I have a question when it comes to dealing with push ups, I'd also like to know if anyone else has this weird problem. I can't do lots of normal push ups in a row, now some may think I'm just weak, MAYBE* that's the case. However, I can actually do push ups easier when my back legs are at a higher incline. Does that just mean a specific muscle is weaker than the other? If so, what muscle is causing it so I can train it. (It's quiet annoying, I've always had that problem) you have weak abs | ||
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CubEdIn
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Might be, the only exercise I do for my abs are crunches, and not regularly, I do manage to get about 4 sets of 50 crunches when I do though. Anyway it's irrelevant, the point is that for doing push-ups, you need to have you abdominal muscles tensed. It doesn't matter that it's not a specific exercise for abs, or that it doesn't help shape them or anything. What I said was that whoever said it has no effects on your abs was wrong. | ||
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Ozarugold
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Pushups rock. | ||
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PobTheCad
Australia893 Posts
i can do max 20 pushups in one go gonna have to get back into gym training as well i guess | ||
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On August 18 2008 00:45 Failsafe wrote: contrary to a few of the cynics, i find it cool that this sort of thing is on a starcraft forum. someone get up a petition to involve july in this hahah as much as i love july thats hilarious XD | ||
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i wanna tell u about 3 stretches u can do that will help recovery and perhaps improve your results and increase flexibility for some like, 10 minutes after u get done working out do these 2 stretches. breathe deeply while you do them, all it takes is like 1 minute of doing each. also, u can do these stretches in between ur workouts, it will help in recovery. triceps stretch ![[image loading]](http://www.exrx.net/StretchImages/Triceps/Overhead.jpg) basically u do what is in the picture. at first u will just be pulling ur elbow towards the back of ur head, but when u gain more flexibility u will be pulling the elbow down your neck towards your back. don't pull down too hard just try to get a good stretch in your triceps chest stretch click here that site is pretty cool i guess it shows how to do the stretch exactly you may also want to do this shoulder stretch click me! | ||
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cRaZypYRo
Germany191 Posts
I made the intinal test 3 weeks ago, I think, and I could do 55 push ups! A week later I started the program. Two weeks passed doing the 3rd column 3 days a week. And today after the second week ended on Friday I made the next test and I already could do 100 and more push ups :D:D:D:D I am so happy right now^^ | ||
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bossi
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thx 4 the streching tips travis, was wondering about that topic lately | ||
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GrandInquisitor
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On September 07 2008 05:25 Eniram wrote: Why do you guys want to be able to do 100 pushups? I don't understand it. Its so arbitrary. Its like trying to be able to do 103 jumping jacks in a minute, or 200 consecutive calf raises. And why would you want to get 200 APM, or be able to run a marathon? It's an arbitrary number and nothing but a symbol, but a pretty satisfying symbol nonetheless, considering what it stands for. | ||
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ryung70
Germany227 Posts
please post videos of you doing pushups, i'm really curious. | ||
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Eniram
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On September 07 2008 05:52 GrandInquisitor wrote: And why would you want to get 200 APM, or be able to run a marathon? It's an arbitrary number and nothing but a symbol, but a pretty satisfying symbol nonetheless, considering what it stands for. Thats different. Those things are benchmarks for accomplishments in a given area. Its safe to say anyone that can run a marathon has really great endurance. Or somebody that has 200 apm is a lot more reactive than the average starcraft player. But what does doing 100 pushups say? Nothing really, except your good at pushups. | ||
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Kau
Canada3500 Posts
On September 07 2008 06:32 Eniram wrote: Thats different. Those things are benchmarks for accomplishments in a given area. Its safe to say anyone that can run a marathon has really great endurance. Or somebody that has 200 apm is a lot more reactive than the average starcraft player. But what does doing 100 pushups say? Nothing really, except your good at pushups. What does running a marathon say? Nothing really, except your good at marathon running. What does having 200 apm say? Nothing really, except you might be good at starcraft. It's safe to say that anyone that can do 100 pushups has really great endurance and strength in their upper body. | ||
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Eniram
Sudan3166 Posts
On September 07 2008 06:41 Kau wrote: What does running a marathon say? Nothing really, except your good at marathon running. What does having 200 apm say? Nothing really, except you might be good at starcraft. It's safe to say that anyone that can do 100 pushups has really great endurance and strength in their upper body. I already mentioned what those examples say about a person and then you pretended like you didn't read it or something. 100 pushups DOES NOT MEAN somebody has great endurance or strength in their upper body. For one, its a bodyweight exercise, meaning people at different weights are doing different amounts of work. Somebody that weighs 300lbs that can do 100 pushups is more impressive than somebody that weighs 115 lbs doing it. Agreed? So you can't just say "anyone that can do 100 consecutive pushups has good upper body strength." Do you really think a 115lb kid is strong? Because I can guarantee you theres countless kids that can do 100 pushups. Going even further, the pushup is only one out of a wide variety of upper body exercises. What if you can do 100 pushups, but 3 pullups? Do you still have a strong upper body? So what does training to be able to do more pushups get you? The ability to do more pushups. | ||
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Hypnosis
United States2061 Posts
On September 07 2008 07:48 Eniram wrote: I already mentioned what those examples say about a person and then you pretended like you didn't read it or something. 100 pushups DOES NOT MEAN somebody has great endurance or strength in their upper body. For one, its a bodyweight exercise, meaning people at different weights are doing different amounts of work. Somebody that weighs 300lbs that can do 100 pushups is more impressive than somebody that weighs 115 lbs doing it. Agreed? So you can't just say "anyone that can do 100 consecutive pushups has good upper body strength." Do you really think a 115lb kid is strong? Because I can guarantee you theres countless kids that can do 100 pushups. Going even further, the pushup is only one out of a wide variety of upper body exercises. What if you can do 100 pushups, but 3 pullups? Do you still have a strong upper body? So what does training to be able to do more pushups get you? The ability to do more pushups. try doing 100 pushups. dumbass If you can do 100 pushups you have decent upper body strength MOST* of the time. Im sure there will be some skinny motherfucker with huge triceps but 100 pushups is pretty hard to do without good upper body strength. | ||
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GrandInquisitor
New York City13113 Posts
On September 07 2008 06:32 Eniram wrote: Thats different. Those things are benchmarks for accomplishments in a given area. Its safe to say anyone that can run a marathon has really great endurance. Or somebody that has 200 apm is a lot more reactive than the average starcraft player. But what does doing 100 pushups say? Nothing really, except your good at pushups. if you can run a marathon you probably have endurance if you have 200 apm you are probably good at multitasking if you can do 100 pushups you probably have good upper body strength | ||
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Ozarugold
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On September 07 2008 08:21 Eniram wrote: Ok but the question remains, why do you guys want to be so good at pushups??? The real question is, why not? | ||
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lightman
United States731 Posts
On August 12 2008 03:31 GrandInquisitor wrote: http://hundredpushups.com/index.html Is anyone else interested in doing this with me? I'm at Rank 3 right now and I'm starting Week 1 - Day 1 today. Is there a plan of these but for ABS ? | ||
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Eniram
Sudan3166 Posts
Its a waste of time. | ||
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LG)Sabbath
Argentina3022 Posts
So is Starcraft. Your point? | ||
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man
United States272 Posts
On September 07 2008 12:46 GrandInquisitor wrote: if you can do 100 pushups you probably have good upper body strength not if you only do push ups | ||
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PobTheCad
Australia893 Posts
or at the least by the time he has mastered 100 pushups he's put on at least 10 pounds | ||
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mikeymoo
Canada7170 Posts
Going into week 5 strong. | ||
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ibutoss
Australia341 Posts
http://www.videosift.com/video/Worlds-record-for-vertical-pushups | ||
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tomatriedes
New Zealand5356 Posts
6 weeks seems to me to be a little hopeful especially for people starting from 20 or less. I don't think some of you realise quite how tough 100 push ups can be but then some of you are probably cheating a bit without noticing. Then again the program is a bit more sophisticated than the way I did it so maybe it'll work. I used to just do as many as I could until fail and then make up the 100 with another 2 or so sets and the number gradually increased that way. Anyway I saw this on another site and even though I've done 100 before I thought I'd give it a go again to help with muscle toning (and impress the gf ) so I started from Monday. As I could already do 50 I thought it was a waste of time doing the 1st two weeks so I started from week 3. I'm going to do week 3 x2, week 4 x2, then week 5 and week 6. Those people who say it won't make you buff are right. When I could do 100 I was a skinny little weed. Doing bench presses at the gym on my maximum possible weight in sets of 10-8-6 or fail was what helped bulk me up. Now I don't want to get any bigger, just lose weight and tone up. | ||
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bdams19
United States1316 Posts
i bet you dont get any cut and you're just taking it out on those who do | ||
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Boblion
France8043 Posts
Full pull ups for the real men. Harder and you cant cheat. If you can do a full pull up with one arm you are definitly a badass. | ||
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Eniram
Sudan3166 Posts
On September 08 2008 03:32 bdams19 wrote: i bet you dont get any cut and you're just taking it out on those who do you're right, i dont get any cut like the people that complete this program. Those people get all the cut On September 08 2008 03:28 tomatriedes wrote: I made it a challenge to myself to do 100 a few years ago...It took me about a year to get to the point where I could do 100. Those people who say it won't make you buff are right. When I could do 100 I was a skinny little weed. edit: I respect tomatriedes though because he was doing it just to challenge himself. He wasn't doing it because some website was tricking him into feeling a sense of accomplishment in order to make money. | ||
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Mccain in November!
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Ozarugold
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Lol...no chance no chance~ | ||
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JeeJee
Canada5652 Posts
apm <?> reaction marathon <?> endurance pushups <?> upper body strength & endurance none of these are true. all of these are true. it just depends on how you look at it. for some arbitrary reason eniram accepts the first 2 but rejects the last. and about the ever present "it's a waste of time". why is it a waste of time? | ||
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Eniram
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On September 08 2008 08:52 JeeJee wrote: eniram's arguments make no sense ;( apm <?> reaction marathon <?> endurance pushups <?> upper body strength & endurance none of these are true. all of these are true. it just depends on how you look at it. for some arbitrary reason eniram accepts the first 2 but rejects the last. and about the ever present "it's a waste of time". why is it a waste of time? If I seriously have to explain to you why training for strength by doing pushups is a waste of time I don't even want to talk to you. | ||
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Wurzelbrumpft
Germany471 Posts
On September 10 2008 04:24 Eniram wrote: If I seriously have to explain to you why training for strength by doing pushups is a waste of time I don't even want to talk to you. of course you train your strenth by doing pushups, theres also something called strength endurance. maybe your trying to tell people that you wont get big and bulky by doing pushups, but being an asshole wont help anyone. anyway if ones goal is to get bigger pushups might help you at the start to gain some basic strength in your upper body, but at some point your bodyweight wont be enough to give your muscles a reason to grow | ||
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lightman
United States731 Posts
On August 12 2008 03:31 GrandInquisitor wrote: http://hundredpushups.com/index.html Is anyone else interested in doing this with me? I'm at Rank 3 right now and I'm starting Week 1 - Day 1 today. how is everyone doing so far ? Is there a website with one of these but for ABS ? | ||
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Fishball
Canada4788 Posts
On September 13 2008 13:47 lightman wrote: how is everyone doing so far ? Is there a website with one of these but for ABS ? Currently working on Week 6 column 3. Actually today was my last day of the program. Week 6 is a !@#$ing bitch. I've been following column 3 for all the weeks. 1-4 was a breeze 5 was on par, with some challenge 6 was brutal I'm always about 20 push ups short when I get to level 5 during week 6. The minimum for level 5 is 56 push ups (I aim for 60), but usually I'm already 95% depleted after the first four levels. I just manage to squish in another 40 before my arms could barely lift my body anymore. I'll just have to keep repeating week 6 until I get comfortable with it. | ||
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Eniram
Sudan3166 Posts
On September 11 2008 22:40 Wurzelbrumpft wrote: of course you train your strenth by doing pushups, theres also something called strength endurance. maybe your trying to tell people that you wont get big and bulky by doing pushups, but being an asshole wont help anyone. anyway if ones goal is to get bigger pushups might help you at the start to gain some basic strength in your upper body, but at some point your bodyweight wont be enough to give your muscles a reason to grow At one point? How about the starting point.. | ||
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All bodies are different. Some people can build muscle by doing standard push-ups! Some people can't build muscle by doing standard push-ups! | ||
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JeeJee
Canada5652 Posts
On September 10 2008 04:24 Eniram wrote: If I seriously have to explain to you why training for strength by doing pushups is a waste of time I don't even want to talk to you. If I seriously have to explain to you why training reaction time by spamming apm is a waste of time I don't even want to talk to you. give me a break. completing a marathon doesn't give you great endurance all by itself, ok? doing 100 pushups doesn't give you great upperbody endurance all by itself, ok? having 300 apm doesn't give you great reaction time all by itself, ok? what is so hard to understand | ||
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mikeymoo
Canada7170 Posts
But I feel great from this program and recommend it to anyone who feels bored or whatever. EDIT: strikeout. EDIT2: 103 max set. GG | ||
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SIUnit
China288 Posts
On September 19 2008 04:19 SoleSteeler wrote: Anyone noticed they changed the numbers around? Bastards! Yeah i went back there and noticed that as well. The new plan seems to start up slower, but gets more intensive starting from week 4. | ||
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United States287 Posts
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mikeymoo
Canada7170 Posts
On September 19 2008 04:19 SoleSteeler wrote: Anyone noticed they changed the numbers around? Bastards! Yeah, it makes more sens this way though. Set one is smaller than set two in most cases, so it's more of a warmup and therefore better for you. | ||
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United States1389 Posts
On September 19 2008 09:40 Zytx wrote: If you want really tight abs for (mostly) top part (but bottom has a little workout too) of your abs then go fetal position but on your back, so that u have your thighs as close to your stomach as possible, keep hands straight parallel to your head (if u cant then by your ears) and do a situp trying as hard as possible to touch ur chest to your thighs everytime can you make an MSPaint of this, im having trouble visualizing it.. also what do you mean by having your arms parallel to your head, your head is a circle, can something be parallel to a circle? Would that be like a larger circle that goes around it and doesn't intersect at any points? | ||
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cRaZypYRo
Germany191 Posts
after week 4 i was able to do 180 push ups xDD i used the new program from day 2 in week 4 onwards | ||
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GrandInquisitor
New York City13113 Posts
But does anyone else feel like Week 3 column 3 was a HUGE step above Week 2 column 3? That wall is fucking massive. | ||
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Steelflight-Rx
United States1389 Posts
On October 03 2008 05:30 GrandInquisitor wrote: I'm off my crutches and my ankle is finally stable/strong enough for pushups again! But does anyone else feel like Week 3 column 3 was a HUGE step above Week 2 column 2? That wall is fucking massive. are you supposed to switch columns between weeks? | ||
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GrandInquisitor
New York City13113 Posts
On October 03 2008 05:44 Steelflight-Rx wrote: are you supposed to switch columns between weeks? Every 2 weeks. Also I typo'd, I meant Week 2 Column 3. | ||
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Ozarugold
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On October 03 2008 06:48 Boblion wrote: I need goals in life ( even stupid goals :D ). I might start it, but i would prefer a 50 pull ups version .50 Pullups?! That's insane!! If you can break 30 with good form, that's pretty damn good... | ||
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Boblion
France8043 Posts
I don't really like pushups because it hurts a bit my elbows when i do 20+. 50 is probably a bit too much for "normal" people like me, but 30+ might be a challenge. I have bought a bar last week and it is time to beat my old nubbie record. | ||
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Ozarugold
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On October 03 2008 07:12 Boblion wrote: Well my record is around 20+ ( don't remember if it was 22 or 23 ) but i want to get a training guide to be better. I don't really like pushups because it hurts a bit my elbows when i do 20+. 50 is probably a bit too much for "normal" people like me, but 30+ might be a challenge. I have bought a bar last week and it is time to beat my old nubbie record. Well, I have a gymnast friend who can do around 40 with damn near perfect form. 30+ is a good challenge. Apparently if you kick when you do a pull up, it doesn't count, so apparently I can only do like 9 instead of 21. Damn my flailing legs. | ||
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Oracle
Canada411 Posts
On October 03 2008 07:12 Boblion wrote: Well my record is around 20+ ( don't remember if it was 22 or 23 ) but i want to get a training guide to be better. I don't really like pushups because it hurts a bit my elbows when i do 20+. 50 is probably a bit too much for "normal" people like me, but 30+ might be a challenge. I have bought a bar last week and it is time to beat my old nubbie record. If you can do 20~ pullups you should easily be able to do MANY pushups. Yes I know pull ups are mainly forearms/back/some biceps and pushups are mainly chest, shoulders, and triceps, but still, you are lifting so much more when you do pullups. Are u sure ur not getting them confused with chin ups? (Pull ups are palms away from you, chin ups are palms facing you) Are you gripping the bar wide enough? If your elbows hurt when you do pushups, your positioning might be wrong. Try doing knuckle pushups. On October 03 2008 12:08 Ozarugold wrote: Well, I have a gymnast friend who can do around 40 with damn near perfect form. 30+ is a good challenge. Apparently if you kick when you do a pull up, it doesn't count, so apparently I can only do like 9 instead of 21. Damn my flailing legs. For me, i like to straighten my legs perpendicular to my body when I do a pull up, it's not "cheating" (as long as u dont kick, and maintain that position) and it works ur abs/glutes/quads at the same time. | ||
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United States781 Posts
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Kau
Canada3500 Posts
On October 03 2008 05:30 GrandInquisitor wrote: I'm off my crutches and my ankle is finally stable/strong enough for pushups again! But does anyone else feel like Week 3 column 3 was a HUGE step above Week 2 column 3? That wall is fucking massive. Haha, I got through Week 2 Column 3 (the old, easier one) ok, then proceeded to fail Week 3 Column 3 Day 1. | ||
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Boblion
France8043 Posts
On October 03 2008 13:02 Koltz wrote: Are u sure ur not getting them confused with chin ups? (Pull ups are palms away from you, chin ups are palms facing you) I did a mistake i'm 22/23 chin ups and 20/21 pull ups. I think chin up are slighty easier especially for my hands / wrists / forearms. On October 03 2008 13:02 Koltz wrote: If your elbows hurt when you do pushups, your positioning might be wrong. I think that's my problem. The position of my arms is too "wide" i guess. | ||
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Hypnosis
United States2061 Posts
On October 03 2008 19:49 Boblion wrote: I did a mistake i'm 22/23 chin ups and 20/21 pull ups. I think chin up are slighty easier especially for my hands / wrists / forearms. I think that's my problem. The position of my arms is too "wide" i guess. slightly easier???? pullups are way easier than chinups, having to face your hands out makes it much harder to do because you do not get to use your biceps as much. | ||
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Boblion
France8043 Posts
I did 20/21 like this ( chin ups ? ) ![[image loading]](http://pix.nofrag.com/1/c/7/027b9ed174f41cae1370ca7e9467b.jpg) and only 2/3 more with the other hand position. Seriously just try to do your max with each hands positions. There won't be a lot of difference ( +20 % max i guess ). If you do 10 ( for example ) of the " hard" version i think you won't be able to do more than 13 of the "easy" version. | ||
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Cambium
United States16368 Posts
I do like... 150-200 pushups a day anyway now that the closest gym costs... ~200$ a month -.- | ||
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GrandInquisitor
New York City13113 Posts
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yubee
United States3826 Posts
On October 09 2008 02:27 GrandInquisitor wrote: yeah i remember going to day 2 of week 3 or 4 and it was like 10x easier, i was really confusedoh what the fuck the program changed? it's way more sane now | ||
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KOFgokuon
United States14892 Posts
On October 04 2008 08:37 Hypnosis wrote: slightly easier???? pullups are way easier than chinups, having to face your hands out makes it much harder to do because you do not get to use your biceps as much. what chinups are hands in, pullups are hands out | ||
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Cambium
United States16368 Posts
Has anyone actually gone through with this yet? I got to week six, but then the routine became impossible for me to complete: 40 50 25 25 50 with sixty seconds of rest?? Now that sounds pretty superman to me. I can do maybe 60 if I really kill myself... | ||
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Equinox_kr
United States7395 Posts
On January 01 2009 11:01 Cambium wrote: Okay bump. Has anyone actually gone through with this yet? I got to week six, but then the routine became impossible for me to complete: 40 50 25 25 50 with sixty seconds of rest?? Now that sounds pretty superman to me. I can do maybe 60 if I really kill myself... I haven't even gotten up to that stage yet. And goddamn, that looks so hard. | ||
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Rotodyne
United States2263 Posts
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Energies
Australia3225 Posts
I can do a fair few dips in multiple sets, the same with pull ups, and even more with chin-ups, but I still give in after about 25-30 pushups. | ||
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itzme_petey
United States1400 Posts
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Energies
Australia3225 Posts
Does anyone know what percentage of your bodyweight you are "benching" in a pushup? | ||
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Energies
Australia3225 Posts
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Forgottenfrog
United States1268 Posts
On January 01 2009 11:43 Energies wrote: I have also noticed a difference between pushups, I do full range pushups where my chest touches the ground, but I have seen soccer/football players training and they go down a tiny bit and come back up and do it at a rapid pace, I think I could probably do a hundred of those ones. lets see it happen ;D | ||
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MarklarMarklar
Fiji1823 Posts
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mikeymoo
Canada7170 Posts
On January 01 2009 11:01 Cambium wrote: Okay bump. Has anyone actually gone through with this yet? I got to week six, but then the routine became impossible for me to complete: 40 50 25 25 50 with sixty seconds of rest?? Now that sounds pretty superman to me. I can do maybe 60 if I really kill myself... I did it in 6 weeks but I could do roughly 50 when I started. Just go back to week five and keep trying I guess? A bunch of my friends started this and stopped as well =[ | ||
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ShaLLoW[baY]
Canada12499 Posts
I just did initial test, and got 102, I guess I'm done with the program!! WOW It works, what a success!! Let me see your form. I dare you. | ||
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Cambium
United States16368 Posts
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Archaic
United States4024 Posts
On January 01 2009 14:10 Cambium wrote: It's actually really fucking hard if you do it properly... QFT. Pushups are like playing StarCraft. Play single player, and you are the best player in the world, and you log into b.net, you get raped 100 times over, and cry yourself to sleep. | ||
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Loanshark
China3094 Posts
The school tape goes slower than any sane person does push-ups, and as such is a lot harder as well. I got 28 following the tape, which is pretty high amongst everyone else. | ||
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JeeJee
Canada5652 Posts
uh no. so i moved down to mid column for w5 but week6 came aroudn and i found myself cheating on form im at about 50consec level now with 2second lower, 1second raise, proper form. i can do w6 and probably 100 with shitty form and quicker lower/raises (like one per second LOL) but who the hel ldoes that impress? i've made a lot of progress over the past 1-2months so i'm happy with where i am | ||
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CynanMachae
Canada1459 Posts
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Demoninja
United States1190 Posts
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Lamentations
Australia211 Posts
Luckily got some cool pushup things for xmas from my sis which kind of stick to the ground and have handles so you can twist while doing a pushup and use a lot more muscles. | ||
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Demoninja
United States1190 Posts
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Quint
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KurtistheTurtle
United States1966 Posts
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EscPlan9
United States2777 Posts
On January 01 2009 16:34 Demoninja wrote: I can do like 20 push ups with perfect form >_> Beat me.... with perfect form I can get 10 tops right now. I suck | ||
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paper
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Savio
United States1850 Posts
Gotta get up to 100 pushups and then maintain forever. Will inform on my progress. | ||
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ShaLLoW[baY]
Canada12499 Posts
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GunsofthePatriots
South Africa991 Posts
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ShaLLoW[baY]
Canada12499 Posts
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SIUnit
China288 Posts
EDIT: I take back what I said about the new program. The new program definitely looks more sane compare to the old one. | ||
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mikeymoo
Canada7170 Posts
On January 01 2009 13:11 ShaLLoW[baY] wrote: Honestly, I can guarantee lots of the people who say that they can just churn out 60-100 have shitty form. "Shitty" is probably not the right word, but I had my roommates watch my form for the 6 weeks. It was really really really hard work, don't get me wrong. I don't believe the program works by itself. I was doing lots of other work in terms of strength in order to keep up with it, along with eating healthy and what not. | ||
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decafchicken
United States20007 Posts
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ShaLLoW[baY]
Canada12499 Posts
On January 02 2009 14:01 mikeymoo wrote: "Shitty" is probably not the right word, but I had my roommates watch my form for the 6 weeks. It was really really really hard work, don't get me wrong. I don't believe the program works by itself. I was doing lots of other work in terms of strength in order to keep up with it, along with eating healthy and what not. I believe you! I was referring to the people who hadn't tried the program and are probably just guessing based on how many they could do 5 years ago. | ||
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Energies
Australia3225 Posts
On January 02 2009 14:18 decafchicken wrote: i got perfect push ups for christmas...maybe i'll do this with them?? If you can do 100 perfect push ups, you get mad props. Video or it didn't happen though. | ||
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HeadBangaa
United States6512 Posts
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decafchicken
United States20007 Posts
On January 02 2009 16:09 Energies wrote: If you can do 100 perfect push ups, you get mad props. Video or it didn't happen though. I just tried the video workout thing that comes with it, fucking raped my pecs and i didn't even do the whole thing. I'm sure you could do it without the push up things but they're def nice to have. | ||
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GinNtoniC
Sweden2945 Posts
I'm not necessarily talking about a shoulder dislocation, but there's also a lot of common problems resulting from excessive training of shoulder-adductors (pecs mainly) - the most common being general pain and constant "clicking" in the shoulders when doing things with your arms above and/or behind your head. Not to mention that your posture might eventually become Quasimodo-bad, unless you train your back-musculature correspondily (mainly the rhomboidei muscles and latissimus dorsi) and stretch the pecs regurlarly. In a thread like this it's usually good to mention that I'm not pulling stuff out of my ass. studying my 3rd term as a physiotherapist on KI - Stockholm. | ||
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decafchicken
United States20007 Posts
On January 02 2009 18:22 GinNtoniC wrote: Just be careful with doing a lot of pushups. You could seriously alter the mechanics of the shoulder joints by pushing the humerus head in the forward/downward direction (out of its socket). I'm not necessarily talking about a shoulder dislocation, but there's also a lot of common problems resulting from excessive training of shoulder-adductors (pecs mainly) - the most common being general pain and constant "clicking" in the shoulders when doing things with your arms above and/or behind your head. Not to mention that your posture might eventually become Quasimodo-bad, unless you train your back-musculature correspondily (mainly the rhomboidei muscles and latissimus dorsi) and stretch the pecs regurlarly. In a thread like this it's usually good to mention that I'm not pulling stuff out of my ass. studying my 3rd term as a physiotherapist on KI - Stockholm. Lol i already have that in my right arm and my left soon too probably. Used to hurt like a bitch but it gets better the more i work out ~.~ | ||
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OMin
United States545 Posts
i hope i can hit 100 pushups through this program (would be sick!) | ||
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ilistis
United States828 Posts
Now in my second week, I do 11-11-11-11-11. I guess I'm being too hard on myself but I'm doing 55 push-ups every day. | ||
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Loveletter
United States543 Posts
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PaeZ
Mexico1627 Posts
in stage 3, will inform of my progress | ||
Xeofreestyler
Belgium6768 Posts
I can go up to 40 now! woo! | ||
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ramen247
United States1256 Posts
like what bas rutten does. he starts doing his pushups at around 2:59 | ||
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Deleted User 3420
24492 Posts
On January 05 2009 05:38 ramen247 wrote: =/. for pushups, i bend my elbow parallel to my body instead of doing it perpendicular. like what bas rutten does. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6xEI9Tpc2Y8 where in the video? if you mean the start of the video those are actually called dips, tricep dips | ||
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ramen247
United States1256 Posts
On January 05 2009 06:08 travis wrote: where in the video? if you mean the start of the video those are actually called dips, tricep dips 2:58 | ||
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Steelflight-Rx
United States1389 Posts
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mikeymoo
Canada7170 Posts
http://twohundredsitups.com/index.html Same dude who made the hundred pushups I assume. | ||
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Reason
United Kingdom2770 Posts
Been waiting for a Sit Ups program to compliment the awesome Hundred Push Ups program. Thanks for putting this out there... No way. | ||
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GrandInquisitor
New York City13113 Posts
Furthermore, the two hundred sit-ups logo is not meant to be a good indicator of how the exercise should be performed. lol | ||
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Centric
United States1989 Posts
I was wondering how this could be...and then I actually opened the page..hahahaha. | ||
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yoshtodd
United States418 Posts
On January 15 2009 15:06 Steelflight-Rx wrote: So i get this sort of.. um.. cracking/popping feeling in my shoulder blade while I'm doing push ups. It only happens on my left side, probably something to do with technique, anyone else had this before? Same thing sometimes... curious if anyone knows the reason. | ||
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Zinbiel
Sweden878 Posts
On January 15 2009 15:06 Steelflight-Rx wrote: So i get this sort of.. um.. cracking/popping feeling in my shoulder blade while I'm doing push ups. It only happens on my left side, probably something to do with technique, anyone else had this before? Do you know if your shoulder blade looks a little funny when it happens? That could mean that you have something called wing scapula, which means that one of your muscles (the anterior serratus muscle) that is responsible for keeping it in place are weakened or have bad innervation. That's not dangerous at all though but can be a little unsettling. | ||
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eshlow
United States5210 Posts
On February 27 2009 05:56 Zinbiel wrote: Do you know if your shoulder blade looks a little funny when it happens? That could mean that you have something called wing scapula, which means that one of your muscles (the anterior serratus muscle) that is responsible for keeping it in place are weakened or have bad innervation. That's not dangerous at all though but can be a little unsettling. Having a winging scapula is not good at all and can lead to problems... definitely potentially dangerous. | ||
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Zoler
Sweden6339 Posts
On January 15 2009 15:06 Steelflight-Rx wrote: So i get this sort of.. um.. cracking/popping feeling in my shoulder blade while I'm doing push ups. It only happens on my left side, probably something to do with technique, anyone else had this before? Same for me It hurts a little | ||
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Typho0n
Canada276 Posts
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Zinbiel
Sweden878 Posts
On February 27 2009 06:02 eshlow wrote: Having a winging scapula is not good at all and can lead to problems... definitely potentially dangerous. Could you point me in the direction of your source about that? From what I've heard from my 2 friends with wing scapula they have no problems at all, both are also in med school so I trusted them. Of course it depends on why your serratus anterior is weak, if it is a more serious nerve damage causing it, it's of course not good. | ||
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yoshtodd
United States418 Posts
On February 27 2009 06:09 Zinbiel wrote: Could you point me in the direction of your source about that? From what I've heard from my 2 friends with wing scapula they have no problems at all, both are also in med school so I trusted them. Of course it depends on why your serratus anterior is weak, if it is a more serious nerve damage causing it, it's of course not good. http://www.exrx.net/Kinesiology/Posture.html#anchor3102554 Some stretches and exercises for it: http://www.exrx.net/Stretches/LatissimusDorsi/Wall.html http://www.exrx.net/Stretches/PectoralisMinor/Doorway.html http://www.exrx.net/WeightExercises/SerratusAnterior/BBInclineShoulderRaise.html http://www.exrx.net/WeightExercises/BackGeneral/CBSeatedRow.html Edit: Sorry this does not address what you were asking for, just posting information on it. | ||
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United States4935 Posts
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-orb-
United States5770 Posts
On March 06 2009 01:05 [GiTM]-Ace wrote: juststarted these the last set always kills me thanks for the bump yo, I didn't see this before, I'm gonna start this now The biggest problem I generally have with workout routines is remembering to do them. I always forget Hopefully I can remember this one. Windows should have a built in like easy-to-use reminder system. That would be so hopeful to be able to set a daily reminder or monday/wednesday/friday etc. Maybe it does and I just don't know about it | ||
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Falcynn
United States3597 Posts
http://www.twohundredsquats.com/ Bumping this because apparently there's also a two hundred squat and two hundred sit up (crunch to be more accurate since that's what they advise) program. I gave up on the pushups when I first started, but now I figured I'd give it a shot while doing the crunch and squat challenge on the off days. | ||
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Eniram
Sudan3166 Posts
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zizou21
United States3683 Posts
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indecision
Germany818 Posts
On May 27 2009 03:16 Eniram wrote: Why not try to be physically fit and well rounded instead of trying to achieve some arbitrary and extremely specific exercise goal that will fool you into thinking you're athletic in some way? excellent question right here! I'd rather go for overall fitness. I gotta admit that I'm kinda aiming for 20 pullups, but that doesn't mean I'm focusing on it. I do perform pistols and cardio exercises just as well. | ||
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Eniram
Sudan3166 Posts
On May 27 2009 03:21 indecision wrote: excellent question right here! I'd rather go for overall fitness. I gotta admit that I'm kinda aiming for 20 pullups, but that doesn't mean I'm focusing on it. I do perform pistols and cardio exercises just as well. thats different though because pullups are awesome | ||
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Reason
United Kingdom2770 Posts
Your stupidity offends me. | ||
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Eniram
Sudan3166 Posts
On May 27 2009 03:24 Reason wrote: Yeah because the reason they are "trying to achieve some arbitrary and extremely specific exercise goal" ISN'T because they are trying to get "physically fit". Your stupidity offends me. What part of arbitrary and extremely specific don't you understand? | ||
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Biochemist
United States1008 Posts
Not replying to either side of the argument here, just throwing that out there arbitrarily. | ||
Bill307
Canada9103 Posts
I can see many people thinking, "Once I finish this challenge, I'll be strong!" as if they can just go back to normal and keep the strength. | ||
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Biochemist
United States1008 Posts
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Eniram
Sudan3166 Posts
On May 27 2009 03:56 Biochemist wrote: Pullups are also more total body than most other single exercises. You can develop an impressive upper body doing almost nothing but pullups, if you do them right. Not replying to either side of the argument here, just throwing that out there arbitrarily. Yep you're right. At least if black people are to be believed you are. I heard most gangs are comprised of black people, so I'm not sure we can trust this video. (did you pick up on the sarcasm?) | ||
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Wohmfg
United Kingdom1292 Posts
On May 27 2009 03:56 Bill307 wrote: Correct me if I'm wrong, but even if you complete one of these challenges, once you return to your usual lifestyle, your body will gradually return to the way it was before you started the challenge, right? I can see many people thinking, "Once I finish this challenge, I'll be strong!" as if they can just go back to normal and keep the strength. Yeah eventually you will lose your strength and fitness that you've gained. But once you have some muscle mass, if you work out relatively regularly even just doing cardio, you will lose it a lot slower. Your strength will also decrease even if you keep your mass as you'll lose motor neurons faster than you will muscle. There's a lot of variables, but yes you will lose your strength/fitness. I don't think this is really a good way to get fit or into an exercise routine anyway. | ||
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Reason
United Kingdom2770 Posts
On May 27 2009 03:27 Eniram wrote: What part of arbitrary and extremely specific don't you understand? So what if they are working a specific muscle group? Some people are already in fine shape but want to tone a specific area. Others may wish to work towards peak physical condition but currently do zero exercise so will start somewhere small, like with this 200 situps. Then after doing them every day or every 2nd day or whatever for a period of time, they may increase the load and do 200 situps and 100 pushups. Keep doing that for a while, then as they get fitter and more enthusiastic about exercise they can work towards being in great all round shape. Why should any of these people have to listen to your unfounded accusations that they are deluding themselves? They shouldn't, so shut the fuck up. edit: Sorry for being so rude, but it's really obvious why I responded to your post with what I did. My post explains itself, and if I merely misunderstood what you wrote then you can correct me on that, don't insult me and patronize me by questioning my understanding of the English language. | ||
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mikeymoo
Canada7170 Posts
On May 27 2009 03:56 Bill307 wrote: Correct me if I'm wrong, but even if you complete one of these challenges, once you return to your usual lifestyle, your body will gradually return to the way it was before you started the challenge, right? I can see many people thinking, "Once I finish this challenge, I'll be strong!" as if they can just go back to normal and keep the strength. lol I did the hundred pushups and two hundred situps about a year ago and half a year ago, respectively. I can't do it anymore, but after less than a week of trying it again, I can do it again. So yes you'd probably return to the way you were originally, but you can take an extended break and still be fairly okay, provided that you aren't eating incredibly unhealthily. Or maybe that's just me and my natural pencil-like figure. Since the discussion seems to have gone off track, I'd like to take this opportunity to plug the program again. It really is very good. | ||
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SixSongs
Poland1455 Posts
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Eniram
Sudan3166 Posts
On May 27 2009 04:26 Reason wrote: So what if they are working a specific muscle group? Whats wrong with that? Just doing one muscle group is retarded though. Like I said, specific. Some people are already in fine shape but want to tone a specific area. Tone? Thats what trainers say to old ladies trying to lose weight. If not you're either trying to gain muscle(strength/endurance/size) or lose fat, you're doing it wrong. Others may wish to work towards peak physical condition wat I'm not anti-pushup. I like pushups. I just think its stupid to try to accomplish such an arbitrary goal and tell yourself you're getting in shape when in fact you're just getting really good at pushups. If you're taking it as a personal challenge thats cool, but if your goal is fitness then you are in fact deluding yourself. If you really want to get in shape you should do some research and figure out a routine that fits your goals. The internet is really good for that sort of thing. | ||
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Wohmfg
United Kingdom1292 Posts
On May 27 2009 05:18 Eniram wrote: Whats wrong with that? Just doing one muscle group is retarded though. Like I said, specific. Tone? Thats what trainers say to old ladies trying to lose weight. If not you're either trying to gain muscle(strength/endurance/size) or lose fat, you're doing it wrong. wat I'm not anti-pushup. I like pushups. I just think its stupid to try to accomplish such an arbitrary goal and tell yourself you're getting in shape when in fact you're just getting really good at pushups. If you're taking it as a personal challenge thats cool, but if your goal is fitness then you are in fact deluding yourself. If you really want to get in shape you should do some research and figure out a routine that fits your goals. The internet is really good for that sort of thing. I agree with this entirely. If someone wants to start exercising or getting into a routine to get them healthy, focusing on a few muscles as push-ups do is a horrible habit to get into. Especially when it's your chest, which if you don't compliment with back work can cause problems. Push-ups are not going to increase your fitness that much. 100 push-ups is a horrible thing to aim for and an inefficient way of spending exercise time. | ||
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Falcynn
United States3597 Posts
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MiniRoman
Canada3953 Posts
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NonY
8748 Posts
On May 27 2009 06:03 MiniRoman wrote: Why do exercise meatheads always try to tell everyone else what to do? Let people do 100 pushups if they want. Fuck. Doing pushups is way more fun than a whole routine. 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. | ||
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Eniram
Sudan3166 Posts
On May 27 2009 06:03 MiniRoman wrote: Why do exercise meatheads always try to tell everyone else what to do? Let people do 100 pushups if they want. Fuck. Doing pushups is way more fun than a whole routine. lol you think im a meathead? thats hilaaaaarious. sounds like you have displaced nerd rage | ||
Bockit
Sydney2287 Posts
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. | ||
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Biochemist
United States1008 Posts
On May 27 2009 04:06 Eniram wrote: Yep you're right. At least if black people are to be believed you are. I heard most gangs are comprised of black people, so I'm not sure we can trust this video. (did you pick up on the sarcasm?) http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kDCxH88-9X8 I can't watch the video because of my current environment, but I don't understand the reason for your sarcasm. What about what I said do you seem to disagree with? I wasn't saying that pullups are the only thing you need to do to bulk up, just implying that if you're going to pick a single exercise and work towards a goal (crunches, pushups, squats, w/e), pullups will net you more overall gain than just about anything else because they work so many muscles. Also because you have to do a LOT more before it becomes just an endurance test, unlike, say, crunches. | ||
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MaZza[KIS]
Australia2110 Posts
On May 27 2009 07:29 Eniram wrote: lol you think im a meathead? thats hilaaaaarious. sounds like you have displaced nerd rage 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. | ||
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Jonoman92
United States9103 Posts
On October 03 2008 07:16 Jonoman92 wrote: Darn I didn't stick with this. Maybe i'll try doing it again. Lol @ myself from 6 months ago. Like you really thought you could do this? You lazy bum! | ||
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statix
United States1760 Posts
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! stick to practicing your pvp for my eventual return to starcraft :D | ||
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TehKris
Norway322 Posts
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. You're makign statements that you can't back up. However, it's true that body-wheights can give you some results. However, Brad Pitt did not get the Fight club body with body-wheight training, I doubt he even got it without roids aswell... And no1 on this forum will ever get a body like Ronnie Coleman, no matter what they do, ever. | ||
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Railxp
Hong Kong1313 Posts
although im scrawny as hell =p | ||
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Musoeun
United States4324 Posts
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 Isn't tl like way bigger than either sc2gg or sclegacy (now that they've had so much downtime and redesign and who knows what else)? Not an entirely fair comparison, but you're probably right... | ||
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sexsexpussyhair
Canada133 Posts
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. arnold is an example of what steroid can get u, bruce lee is an example of what pure natural can give u. | ||
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MiniRoman
Canada3953 Posts
On May 27 2009 07:29 Eniram wrote: lol you think im a meathead? thats hilaaaaarious. sounds like you have displaced nerd rage No just this 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. And 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. 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. | ||
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Piy
Scotland3152 Posts
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statix
United States1760 Posts
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. Maybe these meat heads were once scrawny nerds too. Maybe they started exercising regularly and became a little more educated in the subject. Maybe after time they figured out better ways of doing things. Maybe they'd like to pass on what they've learned so that others don't have to struggle so much. just a thought. doing 100 pushups seems like it would be a pretty fun goal for people who don't usually exercise. you'd be able to measure your progression relatively easily and develop quite a bit more upper body strength. | ||
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dangots0ul
United States919 Posts
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Foucault
Sweden2826 Posts
On May 28 2009 03:28 dangots0ul wrote: went to the final test and passed I don't believe that you did 100 pushups with good form. | ||
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Gray[FH
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Clasic
Bosnia-Herzegovina1437 Posts
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MarF
Canada156 Posts
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 haha gogo incontrol ez win | ||
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KO_SharpMind
Canada277 Posts
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Phyre
United States1288 Posts
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. By the way, not sure if it makes any difference but I'm about 125 pounds and pretty scrawny. 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! | ||
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Deleted User 3420
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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! 1.) parallel. you nose should be the first part of your head to touch the floor 2.) palms on the floor and fingers facing upwards and parallel to your torso is most functional 3.) you shouldn't have to consciously tense them. your back should be straight and if you keep good form what needs to be tensed will do so naturally. 4.) do what you like but 2 seconds down 1 second up sounds real good to me 5.) exhale on the way up (contraction), inhale on the way down (relaxation) 6.) normal pushups work out both just fine. | ||
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Cloud
Sexico5880 Posts
There are many different kinds of pushups doesnt really matter if you do them wide or do the "diamond" ones, you arent looking to tone every upper muscle anyway. Although variety is fun. (Variety also keeps things tough for longer). | ||
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BlueRoyaL
United States2493 Posts
If you're looking for some good home exercises to get stronger, just buy an iron gym and start working on pullups. As far as I know, pullups are far more beneficial to getting stronger than pushups are (don't argue that it works out different body parts, pullups workout so many different key muscles). With the iron gym you can do about 3-4 different kind of pullups that workout parts such as forearm, biceps, shoulders, and back. Most likely pullups will be really difficult at the start, but just keep doing them everyday; everytime you pass by it just do a couple or as many as you can and your # of reps should start to increase. Even though you're 125 right now, if you workout right, you can get pretty buff by only gaining like 10-15lbs from muscle. I'm currently 5'8" and weight 138 but I rep 205 on bench 8-9 times w/o spotter. Also, if you ever plan on lifting weights, DEFINATELY try to always workout with a spotter because those last few reps you need spot on definiately make you much stronger. | ||
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Garnet
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bdams19
United States1316 Posts
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Phyre
United States1288 Posts
@BlueRoyal: Might be that I'm a bit OCD or something but I really want to finish this plan now that I've started it, sort of as a matter of discipline and I think I'll feel better knowing I managed to complete it. Once I'm done though (2 weeks to go) I'll definitely be back here asking questions about what to do next. I like doing chinups anyway and my brother has a bar for that, so I'll definitely look into it. | ||
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bdams19
United States1316 Posts
-_- Just dont look up and dont let your chin touch your chest when youre getting tired. Hand position doesnt matter just what feels natural. The breathing as well doesnt really matter one bit how you sinc it as long as you use your nose and breathe when the burn comes. That's not true. When you work out, you always want to be exhaling when you are lifting and breathing in on the negative. | ||
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BlueRoyaL
United States2493 Posts
On August 18 2009 13:29 Garnet wrote: I have a question: When is the proper time to start working out? I'm 18 and am really scrawny, but I don't know if working out will do anything. Just start now. If you're not concerned at all about growing taller, then might as well. Think about it this way. This obviously won't apply in the same manner to everyone, but when I see some dude that's really ripped and has a sexy looking body, first thing on my mind is "damn.. i'm getting to that point someday." But if all you ever do is just think that and not really get down to working towards that goal, it's never going to happen. If you waste a year just thinking that, within that year you could have been that much closer to the goal. If you have a good workout plan, and you are able to keep your motivation up to workout consistently, then you will be seeing results very fast. @Phyre, yeah don't quit the plan actually haha now that I think about it, discipline is really important and if you can get through the whole program, then you'll be that much more ready to move on later to lifting weights =) As for breathing when it comes to pushups, if you're doing the real slow "perfect" pushups, then breathing matters. If you're just trying to see how many you can do really fast (eg millitary style) then you don't need to inhale+exhale with every rep | ||
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ghrur
United States3786 Posts
On August 18 2009 13:12 BlueRoyaL wrote: To be honest, if you're trying to get stronger (and possibly bulk up), ditch this push-up program and start lifting weights. You might as well start now, pushups you can do whenever and wherever. I only do pushups when I'm in a situation where I can't lift weights for a while, so it helps to maintain somewhat until I can get back to lifting again. If you're looking for some good home exercises to get stronger, just buy an iron gym and start working on pullups. As far as I know, pullups are far more beneficial to getting stronger than pushups are (don't argue that it works out different body parts, pullups workout so many different key muscles). With the iron gym you can do about 3-4 different kind of pullups that workout parts such as forearm, biceps, shoulders, and back. Most likely pullups will be really difficult at the start, but just keep doing them everyday; everytime you pass by it just do a couple or as many as you can and your # of reps should start to increase. Even though you're 125 right now, if you workout right, you can get pretty buff by only gaining like 10-15lbs from muscle. I'm currently 5'8" and weight 138 but I rep 205 on bench 8-9 times w/o spotter. Also, if you ever plan on lifting weights, DEFINATELY try to always workout with a spotter because those last few reps you need spot on definiately make you much stronger. Where do you buy iron gyms? o_o I don't wanna order one cuz I'm not even 16 yet, lol. Also, running every day is good right? :o | ||
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BlueRoyaL
United States2493 Posts
Running is definitely good. It's not going to make you bigger but you lose fat so you become more cut/ripped. So especially if you're going for that strong but lean ripped look, run a lot. You have no control over what parts of your body to lose fat, so you can only lose fat as a whole and a good cardio exercise is probably best for that. Also, consider getting some jump ropes, those are really good for cardio exercises too | ||
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ghrur
United States3786 Posts
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eNoq
Netherlands502 Posts
Lets see if this works then :D | ||
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NExUS1g
United States254 Posts
On August 12 2008 03:36 Gene wrote: i can do 100 pushups, it doesnt make you all that buff buddy, im still a scrawny mofo. the weight of your own body isnt enough. i even put my legs on my bed so i can get incline and make it tougher, cant really get 100 there but its still just not workin out. That would depend on your weight. If you're scrawny, no it won't bulk you up. If you weigh 90 lbs and you're lifting only a portion of that, then you're not getting much of a workout. If you're like me at 5'8" on a 150 lbs frame, then that's a significant difference from what you're lifting. If you're 6'2" on a 220 lbs frame, then again, that's different. If you're fat at 5'8" and 300 lbs, that's even different still. | ||
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StorrZerg
United States13919 Posts
On August 18 2009 14:06 ghrur wrote: Where do you buy iron gyms? o_o I don't wanna order one cuz I'm not even 16 yet, lol. Also, running every day is good right? :o online. any major sport store should have them, bath and body has/had them thats where i got mine | ||
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