"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.