i used t o be able to do 24, despite being a 260 lb lardass. most fit i ever was but couldn't run a mile without breaks. Now im 360 and can only do like 4
32 every morning every day, followed by 12 knuckle pushups 16 inclined pushups and 20 dips
max depends on how hot it is, if it's hot, 32 or maybe 40, if it's cold, at least 48, the reason I stop is usually because of heat in my head making me start to lose count
I'm still losing weight though so who knows how that'll change
70 but the last 10 are nightmare, 60 with good form and equal speed. The crazy part is it took me only 1 year of daily 2x30 push ups to get to this rep range, started at 25 max.
I did used to be able to do about 40 when I was in my early twenties, but haven't been working out as much these past two years, so I guess I'll have to train a bit before I go for the full set.
I fell from my ducati broke my shoulder, then somebody helped me lift my motor back up and then drove back home with a crooked steering wheel and a broke. Shoulder
With chest low enough so that if there was a closed fist with thumb side up on the ground you’d touch it with your chest. I’ve never heard of anyone doing push-ups with the chest hitting the ground in my experience with both military training or in academic PE courses.
171cm (5'7) 66kg (145.5lb)
Currently 60, though I'm still a bit fucked up from covid.
Around 6 months ago I did 64, though my record is 74 from when I was in highschool 12 years ago. Though I was only about 61kg back then.
I want to beat my record, but I'm currently more focused on getting back where I was 6 months ago with my bench-press.
Don't want to train my chest more in fear of over-exhausting my muscles and not letting them get enough rest.
If you're doing over 20 reps on anything, the intensity is too low to drive strength or mass gains and you need to work with something heavier. Stacking plates on your back is awkward compared to just benching.
Weighted planche push ups mog the bench press.
They're okay, but significantly more awkward to load.
And why would an idiot even consider putting plates on their back
3 weeks ago
Anonymous
>Why would you add weight to an easy exercise
I guess vests work too but have limits. Swapping to say incline push-ups to add difficulty is not progressive overload. It's a different movement. There's only so many ways to improve difficulty for the chest on pushups.
I'll be honest with you ISTbros. I'm 5'11" and weigh only 60kg. I have always been thin since childhood. Can't do more than 5 pushups with proper form at the moment. I'm so weak that it's starting to affect my self-confidence. How do I start building strength and gaining healthy weight?
Btw I'm also sort of a poorfag, hence don't have access to a gym, supplements or top of the line nutrition. But I've started a good job recently and will be moving to a big city in October where I'll get those things. What should I do until then?
Also, the muscle mass gain link in the doesn't work.
I also used to be really skinny until I started working out so I'll tell you what worked for me. For the start I would recommend to just pick a basic ass routine like "work out 5 days a week, do x amount of push ups, x amount of squats, et cetera". Stick to that routine like your life depends on it and begin to eat healthier foods, build discipline for a month or more this way. Once a month or so has passed and working out has become a habit, start pushing the boundaries of your routine, just do anything to clutch out a couple more reps, do that every time you work out and you will begin to see progress and it'll get easier and easier to push your body harder. Another important thing is to have a goal. Are you lifting to impress girls, do you just wanna be healthy, or do you want to be the biggest, buffest guy in the room? Focus on that goal, think about it often while working out or thinking about working out, motivate yourself to keep going and make your brain truly associate working out as the way to achieving that goal, that'll make it easier to push through tough workouts through mental fortitude. Once you have done a bunch of basic stuff, start experimenting and find new things to try. See a cool exercise on the internet? Try it, see how it feels, add it to your routine if you like it.
[...]
cont.
As for diet, eat beans, lentil, potatoes, eggs, lots of bread, müsli, lots of fruits, especially bananas, drink milk, eat yogurt, as for meat, since you're on a budget, your best bet us eating innards, as they're really good for you and cheaper than other parts of the animal. Eat more during each meal, force yourself if you have to, your stomach will expand to acommodate the food and your appetite will increase as you keep training.
I gained 5 kilos in my first 4 months of training and as I trained harder and harder I kept gaining weight until I hit 73 kilos, so in about an year and 5 months I gained 15 kilos. I realise what I wrote is not exactly the most specific, so if you have a question about something specific, feel free to ask
Thanks for the diet recommendations. My main goal is to get stronger, not focusing on aesthetics at the moment. I really want to be able to do things like lifting luggage without visible difficulty. In that sense, my aim is not explicitly to do more push-ups.
So what exercises would you recommend?
(For some stupid reason I can't post images so can't make my own thread, which is why I had to ask here)
Push ups, pull ups, chin ups, squats and sit ups should be your base. They will build up nearly every muscle group in your body and make you stronger overall, for those you will need to put in more reps, there's really no avoiding that if you want to get stronger than you are rn. Since your goal is more practical strength, add weighted exercises such as bicep curls, shoulder raises, bench and
rows. Also do deadlifts to make it easier to lift things off the ground and do farmer walks to actually be able to carry things for longer. Make sure you train your abs and other core muscles a lot as the balance they provide to your body is essential to anything you do. Leg raises, sit ups and hip lifts for abs, deadlift and supermen for lower back, russian twists for obliques, teapots for the sides.
Drink milk, eat yoguhrt. Eat beans, eggs, CHICKEN(especially chicken breast), tuna and beef.
The less processed stuff the better. Minced meat isn't that differently priced compared to large chunks of chicken, but those chicken chunks are going to help you a hell of a lot more.
Eat veggies if you can afford them, you need nutrients. Bare minimum is to buy health supplements instead, like omega-3 and other vitamins. Bananas are good too as far as fruits go.
If you have the time at least start by walking an hour a day. It'll do wonders for your legs and back, and it'll help on the cardio front more than you'd expect.
A simple youtube or google search will give you a ton of body weight exercises beyond push ups and squats. Don't neglect your legs and core muscles, do those squats and leg raises.
At first you don't want to work out too hard, as you'll just get extremely sore and/or injured which is likely to dissuade you from starting to work out again. Everyone gets like that after long breaks from the gym, the only way to avoid it is to start really gentle for about the first week. Then you want to ideally find a workout-plan where you're working out 45 mins to an hour 4-5 times a week.
Don't do exercises where you hit the same muscle groups two days in a row. This is less of a problem if you hit -say your triceps multiple times because of compound exercises, but it's still not good.
Give your muscles time to rest, and try to sleep 8 hours a day. When you workout after the first week, try to train to failure.
Thanks for the good advice anons. Sorry for the late reply, I was busy with some work. I'll get started with a routine and the diet.
I also used to be really skinny until I started working out so I'll tell you what worked for me. For the start I would recommend to just pick a basic ass routine like "work out 5 days a week, do x amount of push ups, x amount of squats, et cetera". Stick to that routine like your life depends on it and begin to eat healthier foods, build discipline for a month or more this way. Once a month or so has passed and working out has become a habit, start pushing the boundaries of your routine, just do anything to clutch out a couple more reps, do that every time you work out and you will begin to see progress and it'll get easier and easier to push your body harder. Another important thing is to have a goal. Are you lifting to impress girls, do you just wanna be healthy, or do you want to be the biggest, buffest guy in the room? Focus on that goal, think about it often while working out or thinking about working out, motivate yourself to keep going and make your brain truly associate working out as the way to achieving that goal, that'll make it easier to push through tough workouts through mental fortitude. Once you have done a bunch of basic stuff, start experimenting and find new things to try. See a cool exercise on the internet? Try it, see how it feels, add it to your routine if you like it.
cont.
As for diet, eat beans, lentil, potatoes, eggs, lots of bread, müsli, lots of fruits, especially bananas, drink milk, eat yogurt, as for meat, since you're on a budget, your best bet us eating innards, as they're really good for you and cheaper than other parts of the animal. Eat more during each meal, force yourself if you have to, your stomach will expand to acommodate the food and your appetite will increase as you keep training.
I gained 5 kilos in my first 4 months of training and as I trained harder and harder I kept gaining weight until I hit 73 kilos, so in about an year and 5 months I gained 15 kilos. I realise what I wrote is not exactly the most specific, so if you have a question about something specific, feel free to ask
Drink milk, eat yoguhrt. Eat beans, eggs, CHICKEN(especially chicken breast), tuna and beef.
The less processed stuff the better. Minced meat isn't that differently priced compared to large chunks of chicken, but those chicken chunks are going to help you a hell of a lot more.
Eat veggies if you can afford them, you need nutrients. Bare minimum is to buy health supplements instead, like omega-3 and other vitamins. Bananas are good too as far as fruits go.
If you have the time at least start by walking an hour a day. It'll do wonders for your legs and back, and it'll help on the cardio front more than you'd expect.
A simple youtube or google search will give you a ton of body weight exercises beyond push ups and squats. Don't neglect your legs and core muscles, do those squats and leg raises.
At first you don't want to work out too hard, as you'll just get extremely sore and/or injured which is likely to dissuade you from starting to work out again. Everyone gets like that after long breaks from the gym, the only way to avoid it is to start really gentle for about the first week. Then you want to ideally find a workout-plan where you're working out 45 mins to an hour 4-5 times a week.
Don't do exercises where you hit the same muscle groups two days in a row. This is less of a problem if you hit -say your triceps multiple times because of compound exercises, but it's still not good.
Give your muscles time to rest, and try to sleep 8 hours a day. When you workout after the first week, try to train to failure.
Around 70 now, I might've been able to do 80 before iirc
110 was the most I'd done in one set with pauses (on arms)
For the wider variation of pushups that is.
I think I can do around 50 regular ones w/o stopping, don't do those that often.
20-30 with good form. After that my wrist hurts but hopefully the scar tissue etc will get better over time. At first I could only do a few with excruciating pain so this is good for me
I used to be able to do 10 but then realized my elbows are supposed to be in and then I could do 0 and then became demoralized and gave up on them. Now I do the chest press machine. Someday I will try to do a pushup again.
I'm 245 and I can do 75, I was 198 lbs and did 124 before. Was incarcerated from 18-20 then went to tree work and after climbing trees all day at 21 years old I'd do 600 in 20 minutes every afternoon. When I was incarcerated I'd do 1100 a day of you count the hundred 6 pump Aztec burpees I did. At 18 I was a skinny drug addict and I decided I'd get big because I was in there with monsters, injuries from work and lifting and being a father of 5 have slowed me down, but I'm 33 now and have a successful business and a nice house. I'm doing lots of cardio and bench now until my piriformis muscle gets better, then I'll get back into deadlifts, but with 225 and high reps once a week. Also did 25 elevated one hand pushups last year when I was a 265 lb chunky guy. Trying to lose weight to help injury heal better.
> MULTIPLE SETS WHICH IS OBVIOUSLY NOT WHAT'S BEING ASKED HERE > Partial ROM with chest not touching the ground so you're just jerking off the floor > Super fast jerk off speed with 0.000001 s up and 0.00000000000001 s down and no pause at the bottom > back and hips not aligned
Yeah everybody can do a fucking billion like that. I wanna see some vids, cause I'm calling bullshit.
A couple of years ago I wasn't doing any exercise for a while, me and a friend had a bet, I thought I could do 50 press ups. I got to I think 36, I'd imagine I would get 50 now that I've been lifting for a year.
All of em
30-40 depends on my condition and mood of the day
I do 20x15 daily but around 70 is my max in one set
Damn.
I can do 50, but the last 5 I struggle little bit.
I am in decent shape.
Am I going to make it bros???
up to 30
i used t o be able to do 24, despite being a 260 lb lardass. most fit i ever was but couldn't run a mile without breaks. Now im 360 and can only do like 4
100
That's my goal, I'm doing 40, 50 on a good day.
Hell yeah fellow 100-club member
I only ever do them as a burnout exercise at the end of my chest and back day so about 20. Dunno when I'm fresh though.
32 every morning every day, followed by 12 knuckle pushups 16 inclined pushups and 20 dips
max depends on how hot it is, if it's hot, 32 or maybe 40, if it's cold, at least 48, the reason I stop is usually because of heat in my head making me start to lose count
I'm still losing weight though so who knows how that'll change
I always fuck up the breathing and then my head becomes red and my eyes feel like they're about to pop. That's why I only do sets of 20 now
25 at 280 pounds and 60 at 190 pounds
18 with perfect form and pause at the bottom
Fat.
149lbs
4'10"
5'9"
do more
i can do 10 with wide grip and 7 with a shoulder wide grip
Prolly fiddy
18 perfect form 220 lbs
Like 15-20
70 but the last 10 are nightmare, 60 with good form and equal speed. The crazy part is it took me only 1 year of daily 2x30 push ups to get to this rep range, started at 25 max.
Roll
How bout I roll and find out?
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Roll
I rollll
Rolling, let's fucking go
Raul
I did used to be able to do about 40 when I was in my early twenties, but haven't been working out as much these past two years, so I guess I'll have to train a bit before I go for the full set.
28 250lbs on a good day 25 on a bad day
Consistently 50-60 with good form, everything past that breaks down. My best is 87.
61 then my wrists start to hurt ever since I crashed my bike
Weak as piss. I was riding my R6 with a broken left wrist
Okay? Were you doing pushups with your broken left wrist?
Yes
And how many pushups did you do with your broken left wrist, 67735477?
I fell from my ducati broke my shoulder, then somebody helped me lift my motor back up and then drove back home with a crooked steering wheel and a broke. Shoulder
PR is 100. If I were to do them right now probably 65 or 70.
is this with powerlifter ROM or chest to the ground?
With chest low enough so that if there was a closed fist with thumb side up on the ground you’d touch it with your chest. I’ve never heard of anyone doing push-ups with the chest hitting the ground in my experience with both military training or in academic PE courses.
No idea, haven't done them in years
171cm (5'7) 66kg (145.5lb)
Currently 60, though I'm still a bit fucked up from covid.
Around 6 months ago I did 64, though my record is 74 from when I was in highschool 12 years ago. Though I was only about 61kg back then.
I want to beat my record, but I'm currently more focused on getting back where I was 6 months ago with my bench-press.
Don't want to train my chest more in fear of over-exhausting my muscles and not letting them get enough rest.
No clue. Probably 30+ I don't do them but that's what I got last time. I prefer to bench
>prefer to bench
Aka
>prefer to be a gay
Not that Anon, but pretty much all that doing push-ups does it make you better at doing push-ups. Bench press at least gives you a bigger chest.
Aka prefer to be strong. Push-ups are only useful for building muscular endurance. Not size or strength. The intensity is far too low
>the intensity is far too low
That’s why YOU make it intense
If you're doing over 20 reps on anything, the intensity is too low to drive strength or mass gains and you need to work with something heavier. Stacking plates on your back is awkward compared to just benching.
They're okay, but significantly more awkward to load.
And why would an idiot even consider putting plates on their back
>Why would you add weight to an easy exercise
I guess vests work too but have limits. Swapping to say incline push-ups to add difficulty is not progressive overload. It's a different movement. There's only so many ways to improve difficulty for the chest on pushups.
Weighted planche push ups mog the bench press.
IDK, I'm not in the military nor am I a calisthenics dyel
I hate that people in push-up threads don't just own up to this by default. They want to tell you total for all their sets and not specify.
8
Most honest answer
Last year I couldn't do one. No need to lie.
20, does doing cardio helps?
No. Doing push-ups does. Bench also has solid carry over
most people cheat and do some 45° push ups or worse.
About 75, im a fat guy trying to go to the guym
I'll be honest with you ISTbros. I'm 5'11" and weigh only 60kg. I have always been thin since childhood. Can't do more than 5 pushups with proper form at the moment. I'm so weak that it's starting to affect my self-confidence. How do I start building strength and gaining healthy weight?
Btw I'm also sort of a poorfag, hence don't have access to a gym, supplements or top of the line nutrition. But I've started a good job recently and will be moving to a big city in October where I'll get those things. What should I do until then?
Also, the muscle mass gain link in the doesn't work.
I also used to be really skinny until I started working out so I'll tell you what worked for me. For the start I would recommend to just pick a basic ass routine like "work out 5 days a week, do x amount of push ups, x amount of squats, et cetera". Stick to that routine like your life depends on it and begin to eat healthier foods, build discipline for a month or more this way. Once a month or so has passed and working out has become a habit, start pushing the boundaries of your routine, just do anything to clutch out a couple more reps, do that every time you work out and you will begin to see progress and it'll get easier and easier to push your body harder. Another important thing is to have a goal. Are you lifting to impress girls, do you just wanna be healthy, or do you want to be the biggest, buffest guy in the room? Focus on that goal, think about it often while working out or thinking about working out, motivate yourself to keep going and make your brain truly associate working out as the way to achieving that goal, that'll make it easier to push through tough workouts through mental fortitude. Once you have done a bunch of basic stuff, start experimenting and find new things to try. See a cool exercise on the internet? Try it, see how it feels, add it to your routine if you like it.
Thanks for the diet recommendations. My main goal is to get stronger, not focusing on aesthetics at the moment. I really want to be able to do things like lifting luggage without visible difficulty. In that sense, my aim is not explicitly to do more push-ups.
So what exercises would you recommend?
(For some stupid reason I can't post images so can't make my own thread, which is why I had to ask here)
Push ups, pull ups, chin ups, squats and sit ups should be your base. They will build up nearly every muscle group in your body and make you stronger overall, for those you will need to put in more reps, there's really no avoiding that if you want to get stronger than you are rn. Since your goal is more practical strength, add weighted exercises such as bicep curls, shoulder raises, bench and
rows. Also do deadlifts to make it easier to lift things off the ground and do farmer walks to actually be able to carry things for longer. Make sure you train your abs and other core muscles a lot as the balance they provide to your body is essential to anything you do. Leg raises, sit ups and hip lifts for abs, deadlift and supermen for lower back, russian twists for obliques, teapots for the sides.
Thanks for the good advice anons. Sorry for the late reply, I was busy with some work. I'll get started with a routine and the diet.
do pushups and eat a lot
cont.
As for diet, eat beans, lentil, potatoes, eggs, lots of bread, müsli, lots of fruits, especially bananas, drink milk, eat yogurt, as for meat, since you're on a budget, your best bet us eating innards, as they're really good for you and cheaper than other parts of the animal. Eat more during each meal, force yourself if you have to, your stomach will expand to acommodate the food and your appetite will increase as you keep training.
I gained 5 kilos in my first 4 months of training and as I trained harder and harder I kept gaining weight until I hit 73 kilos, so in about an year and 5 months I gained 15 kilos. I realise what I wrote is not exactly the most specific, so if you have a question about something specific, feel free to ask
Drink milk, eat yoguhrt. Eat beans, eggs, CHICKEN(especially chicken breast), tuna and beef.
The less processed stuff the better. Minced meat isn't that differently priced compared to large chunks of chicken, but those chicken chunks are going to help you a hell of a lot more.
Eat veggies if you can afford them, you need nutrients. Bare minimum is to buy health supplements instead, like omega-3 and other vitamins. Bananas are good too as far as fruits go.
If you have the time at least start by walking an hour a day. It'll do wonders for your legs and back, and it'll help on the cardio front more than you'd expect.
A simple youtube or google search will give you a ton of body weight exercises beyond push ups and squats. Don't neglect your legs and core muscles, do those squats and leg raises.
At first you don't want to work out too hard, as you'll just get extremely sore and/or injured which is likely to dissuade you from starting to work out again. Everyone gets like that after long breaks from the gym, the only way to avoid it is to start really gentle for about the first week. Then you want to ideally find a workout-plan where you're working out 45 mins to an hour 4-5 times a week.
Don't do exercises where you hit the same muscle groups two days in a row. This is less of a problem if you hit -say your triceps multiple times because of compound exercises, but it's still not good.
Give your muscles time to rest, and try to sleep 8 hours a day. When you workout after the first week, try to train to failure.
Good solid form nose to the floor pushups? Like 35. Weak, sissy ass pushups I see all the time? Like a hundred.
I can do 1
Around 70 now, I might've been able to do 80 before iirc
110 was the most I'd done in one set with pauses (on arms)
For the wider variation of pushups that is.
I think I can do around 50 regular ones w/o stopping, don't do those that often.
40-45 probably 50-55 if there was a gun to my head
I did 100 in a row and could have done more. I’m really happy with myself these days.
About this many ,..............................................^
50 straight, staying in position, then pause through sets of 10 until I hit 100
I'm fat as fuck but my anger keeps me pushing
20-30 with good form. After that my wrist hurts but hopefully the scar tissue etc will get better over time. At first I could only do a few with excruciating pain so this is good for me
30
I used to be able to do 10 but then realized my elbows are supposed to be in and then I could do 0 and then became demoralized and gave up on them. Now I do the chest press machine. Someday I will try to do a pushup again.
I'm 245 and I can do 75, I was 198 lbs and did 124 before. Was incarcerated from 18-20 then went to tree work and after climbing trees all day at 21 years old I'd do 600 in 20 minutes every afternoon. When I was incarcerated I'd do 1100 a day of you count the hundred 6 pump Aztec burpees I did. At 18 I was a skinny drug addict and I decided I'd get big because I was in there with monsters, injuries from work and lifting and being a father of 5 have slowed me down, but I'm 33 now and have a successful business and a nice house. I'm doing lots of cardio and bench now until my piriformis muscle gets better, then I'll get back into deadlifts, but with 225 and high reps once a week. Also did 25 elevated one hand pushups last year when I was a 265 lb chunky guy. Trying to lose weight to help injury heal better.
15-20 depending on how hyped I am
>t. 220lbs
around 150
Im stuck on 20. Im 100kg/186cm
idk if fresh around 40?
A month ago I could do two. Now I'm doing seven. I'm 5'11'' and 155 pounds. I hope to one day be able to do fifty like the various anons here.
>> everybody here 40-100
Yeah let me guess gays:
> MULTIPLE SETS WHICH IS OBVIOUSLY NOT WHAT'S BEING ASKED HERE
> Partial ROM with chest not touching the ground so you're just jerking off the floor
> Super fast jerk off speed with 0.000001 s up and 0.00000000000001 s down and no pause at the bottom
> back and hips not aligned
Yeah everybody can do a fucking billion like that. I wanna see some vids, cause I'm calling bullshit.
7, I'm 39bmi.
A couple of years ago I wasn't doing any exercise for a while, me and a friend had a bet, I thought I could do 50 press ups. I got to I think 36, I'd imagine I would get 50 now that I've been lifting for a year.