How many pushups can you do?
Okolo over at Team in Training asked, “How many pushups can you do?”
I love pushups so much because they work so many muscles, and because after you master the basic pushup (can do about 50 without stopping) there are lots of variations to keep it interesting and keep different muscles working. Pushups work the arms (biceps and triceps), chest, shoulders, back, and abs.
So my challenge to the folks in blog land is how many pushups can you do? Please reply and post here.
Pushups are a great exercise, and it has been a long time since I have sat down and just done a lot of them in a row. I usually incorporate some form of them into my workout, but then I do 10 to 20 of them in sets rather than just doing a large set to exhaustion. For example, my current workout involves doing T-Pushups, where you go down as normal but then explode up to your right or left (switching each time) and point at the ceiling.
I tried Okolo’s challenge this morning, and I did 46 pushups. I was starting to get tired, but I wasn’t fatigued yet. My living room floor was not being kind to my wrists, though, and I was too lazy to go downstairs to get some dumbbells to hold onto. I might have managed only another half dozen or dozen anyway.
So, how many pushups can you do? Leave a reply here or head over to the Team in Training site and reply over there. Better yet, leave a note in both places.
If you have never done pushups before, or are not particularly comfortable on technique, I have animated instruction guides about Pushups and Assisted Pushups.
Like you Blaine, it’s been quite a while since I just got down and did as many as possible. Looks like I should be doing it more often though -- I stopped at a measly 39.
Push till my arms get tired? Much easier with a drill instructor yelling at me…
Well, I haven’t pushed regular lately. Recently, I did 3 sets of 20 decline pushups (feet up on bench) with a minute’s rest. I’v also lately been able to crunch through sets of 20 triangle pushups (hands joined at extended thumb and forefinger tips beneath the chest).
Push-ups play more of a conditioning role for me. I’ll try this when we hit our next active rest phase.
Well, like it’s said in the original article, these are something that are fairly easy to push forward pretty quickly if it matters to you.
I do have to say I am surprised, though. I figured I’d have been the low man of the crowd that’s responded; I’m sure the T-Pushups will help, but I’ve only done one workout with them so far. I’ve only been back to the gym for a week and a half since taking (basically) 3 weeks off from lifting for marathon taper and recovery.
Since I didn’t get in my sandbag workout or another type of workout I thought I’d bang out this challenge. I could have grinded a few more, but I only got 35…not as many as I thought I’d be able to do. I thought I’d get 50 with no problem. Hummm…something to work on.
That’s a good goal. Eighty six is not too shabby to begin with.
I did push ups daily with 4 sets of 25 reps with one to two min rest….. sometimes I like to play games with my dudes to see how many push ups without stopping. I have gone 86. My goal is 100 in 2 mins but couldnt do it. However, I am not giving up!
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I’ve been doing 20 push ups at work every hour for about 9 hours. I continue them at home every hour until I have a total of 240 per day.
Ok, but how many seconds your single push-up is made? I can do 12 continuos push-up in 2 seconds for down movement and 2 seconds up movement (2-2), 23 continuos push-up in 1 seconds down and 1 sec up (1-1), 38 in 1 seconds for down and up movement. So I think talking simply of how many push up have u done, is useless without this info.