"Clammy that's fucking gay I can do at least 10 pullups and 50 pushups."
Cool story, bro. Did you do any today? Yesterday?
If you do them every day, you're all set, you don't need this post.
If you haven't done any since last week, or last month, or last time there was a thread in here about doing them, then listen to this.
The working out might not be as hard as getting yourself to do it every day.
You know what's not hard? Flossing. I fucking hate flossing. It took some effort to get myself to floss every day. Flossing isn't difficult, making yourself floss is. The discipline of doing it every day might be what you actually need to work on.
1 pushup is BS. It's really, really hard to justify not doing even ONE pushup and ONE pullup. Do it literally every day. When you get overwhelmed by how dumb only one of each is, you're free to do more, but you are NEVER allowed to not do at least one.
I'm going to start doing this. Anybody else going to commit to at least ONE pullup and pushup every single day?
Or is that too big of a commitment for you?
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Nosferatjew ago
lol my personal best for pushups in one workout is 400, usually I do between 200 and 300.
Phantom42 ago
My personal best for pushups was 168, in one go.
My arms were tired as fuck after that. So, I did situps. 380-ish of those.
I miss being stronk-ish.
Nosferatjew ago
168 in one go is purty dang good. I break mine up into smaller sets and do them between other exercises. I don't actually know how many I can do in one go... maybe I should find out.
Phantom42 ago
Well, if that's good nobody told me! That was unfortunately two years ago and I broke my scaphoid bone in my hand. It's still fucked up. Right now, after two years of very limited activity (at least compared to what I used to do), I can hit... Oh, I'd say 50-60 in one go. My hand is gonna be fucking hurting afterwards though, thanks to the screw I have in it.
Of course, doc said it would be a couple years before it would start feeling right.
Nosferatjew ago
Have you tried using grips/handles? Might help with the hand pain.
And yeah 168 is great. Consider that most "in shape" people will struggle with 50 in a row. And most out of shape people can barely do 10... many can't even do 2.
Phantom42 ago
Waitwaitwait...
Most people struggle to do 50? At least the "in-shape crowd"?
I thought that was just bare minimum.
Nosferatjew ago
Well, 1/3 of people are overweight, and another 1/3 are obese. So 2/3 of people have no chance of doing anywhere near 50 push ups, let alone even just 1. Of the remaining 1/3 of people who are normal sized, the ones who say/think they're "in shape" are too often just not fat, and are not very strong. I bet less than 5% of people in this country can do 50 push ups in one workout, not even in a row. Fuck it, I bet less tham 5% of American males between 14 and 45 can do 50 real push ups in a workout. People are fucking weak these days, it's pathetic.
Phantom42 ago
Fair point.
My thing is, I want to be 100% confident in a fight that my strength and agility alone can carry me through. If I can do that, I will be happy.
Of course, this is next to impossible.
If I get strong enough to where I can break a guy's neck with one hand I will be happy. I'll just put it like that.
Right now though, I'm just a skinny bastard. Not weak, not terribly strong, just about what would be average for someone my age who is reasonably active.
Buuut I hate being average. Average is fake and gay. I'm white damn it, I want the best and sure as Hell am determined to get it.
Nosferatjew ago
Fuck being average. Average is for betas and women.
clamhurt_legbeard ago
How many did you do yesterday?
What about the day before?
Nosferatjew ago
I work out in this way, lifting/body weight exercises, every 2-3 days, I hike 1-2hrs/day 5-6 days/week (recently I've added some sprinting to my hikes), and I do some other physically demanding "sporting" activities for about an hour every day. I don't do pushups every day, I do them 2-4 days/week. On days that I don't do a full lifting workout, I will sometimes do a ~30min partial workout just to get the juices flowing before leaving the house, today was one of those days, so was yesterday. Tomorrow is a full workout day. If I wake up early enough, I should be able to hit 300-400 pushups.
No, I am not going to answer your questions directly, because it doesn't really matter how many pushups I did yesterday or the day before, or on any given day. What matters is the total approach I take to fitness. I was just bragging about 400 because it's a new milestone for me, one I wouldn't have foreseen a few years ago. And I lol'd because now that I've made it to this point, doing just 1 pushup sounds so funny. However, there was a point when I could barely do 10 pushups in a row. I remember the struggle well...
Here's my suggestion to those who are just starting with this stuff: Warm up first. At the very least, just swing your arms around while standing. Push out at the air in front of you or above you, do arm circles, etc. Then do your pushups. If you can do 1 pushup without vomiting or tearing a muscle or connective tissue, then do another. If you can do 2, do 3, and so on. If you get to 5 or 10, or even if you only did 1, and you find you are struggling, and your arms are burning and shaking, take a break and do some situps, or curls, or jumping jacks, or whatever. Once your arms have cooled off a little, do another set. Keep doing this until you can't do even just 1 anymore, and keep track of how many you do. I use a pad of paper where I tally each set of 25. I usually do about 8 sets/hour. These days, the only reason I don't do more pushups in a workout is time constraints. If you're only doing 1-5 pushups/set you could probably do 15-20 sets/hour. You may be surprised at many you can actually do if you spread it out a little and don't just try to do them all in a row.
Now go do your pushup ;)
PS: be careful with pullups. If you're not strong enough to do 5 in a row, you could easily hurt yourself. Build up strength by doing pullups with rubber/silicone workout bands first, if you can't do them without.
clamhurt_legbeard ago
Sounds like you didn't even understand the post, but ok!
Nosferatjew ago
I did understand your post. I thought I made my point fairly clear... I'll elaborate further...
If I was only doing 20 or 50 pushups in a workout, I would do them every day, but since I'm doing hundreds in every workout, I spread it out so that I don't risk hurting my wrists or shoulders and because muscle needs time to repair after working out. Also, it takes a lot of time to do that many the way I do them, and I don't have that kind of time every day. I'm still working out for at least 2 hours total every day, I'm just not focusing on the same exercise every day. I mix it up, because my body needs a lot more than just pushups to be fit.
clamhurt_legbeard ago
lol
Nosferatjew ago
Sup fag, just checking in. You finish that 1 pushup yet? I just achieved a new personal best of 425.
lol
Nosferatjew ago
Just did 100 pushups. Your turn. Or are you still stuck on 1? lol
Nosferatjew ago
Why lol?