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One hundred pushups challenge

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ikonoklast
07-07-2012 at 05:57 PM.
07-07-2012 at 05:57 PM.
100 sounds crazy. I can do maybe 40-45.
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teenbean
07-07-2012 at 06:57 PM.
07-07-2012 at 06:57 PM.
Quote from tp4tissue :
Pushups are a terrible exercise because it's very very difficult to balance the load evenly between both arms.

Most people end up using their dominant arm way more than the other.

AND very often they engaged their shoulders and pivot on their weaker arm in a rotating motion. This leads to the upper and lower chest being unbalanced on the dominant arm.
Maybe you should do one handed pushups? and then just switch after every set?
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veritablequandary
07-07-2012 at 07:20 PM.
07-07-2012 at 07:20 PM.
Quote from tp4tissue :
Pushups are a terrible exercise because it's very very difficult to balance the load evenly between both arms.

Most people end up using their dominant arm way more than the other.

AND very often they engaged their shoulders and pivot on their weaker arm in a rotating motion. This leads to the upper and lower chest being unbalanced on the dominant arm.
Wat.

Seriously, wat.
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PaintTheSkyGrey
07-07-2012 at 07:21 PM.
07-07-2012 at 07:21 PM.
Quote from veritableqndry :
Wat.

Seriously, wat.
He's saying as long as you're right-handed and do enough pushups, you'll be all right.
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veritablequandary
07-07-2012 at 07:23 PM.
07-07-2012 at 07:23 PM.
Quote from PaintTheSkyGrey :
He's saying as long as you're right-handed and do enough pushups, you'll be all right.
But there was no mention of protein or explosiveness in any of that broscience at all!

I'm so confused bro.
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veritablequandary
07-07-2012 at 07:27 PM.
07-07-2012 at 07:27 PM.
Roll

I'm dying laughing picturing some poor bastard doing 10 pushups and looking up to find himself facing 180 degrees from where he started. Confused "WTF? How did this happen?"

"That's what happens when you do pushups bro!"
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PaintTheSkyGrey
07-07-2012 at 07:28 PM.
07-07-2012 at 07:28 PM.
Quote from veritableqndry :
Roll

I'm dying laughing picturing some poor bastard doing 10 pushups and looking up to find himself facing 180 degrees from where he started. Confused "WTF? How did this happen?"

"That's what happens when you do pushups bro!"
Crylol
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07-07-2012 at 07:30 PM.
07-07-2012 at 07:30 PM.
Quote from PaintTheSkyGrey :
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Dude, plus my upper chest wound up all lower than my lower chest on my dominant arm!

Pushups. Not even once.
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tp4tissue
07-07-2012 at 07:59 PM.
07-07-2012 at 07:59 PM.
Quote from veritableqndry :
Roll

I'm dying laughing picturing some poor bastard doing 10 pushups and looking up to find himself facing 180 degrees from where he started. Confused "WTF? How did this happen?"

"That's what happens when you do pushups bro!"
the rotating motion I'm talking about is when you tuck one elbow in more than the other

so you're twisting yourself when you go up, which is bad. because you're engaging different groups of muscle unevenly.

this happens quite a bit to novices because they have virtually no chest or tricep strength in their left arm.
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veritablequandary
07-07-2012 at 08:12 PM.
07-07-2012 at 08:12 PM.
Quote from tp4tissue :
the rotating motion I'm talking about is when you tuck one elbow in more than the other

so you're twisting yourself when you go up, which is bad. because you're engaging different groups of muscle unevenly.

this happens quite a bit to novices because they have virtually no chest or tricep strength in their left arm.
Bro - I'm with you bro. We can't have n00bs doing pushups like n00bs bro. They might snap their rotator cuffs right in half! Anyone wanting to do pushups needs to hire a properly-licensed trained professional trainer to train them to do pushups. Anything less is just dangerous and unbrofessional.
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PaintTheSkyGrey
07-07-2012 at 10:35 PM.
07-07-2012 at 10:35 PM.
Quote from veritableqndry :
Bro - I'm with you bro. We can't have n00bs doing pushups like n00bs bro. They might snap their rotator cuffs right in half! Anyone wanting to do pushups needs to hire a properly-licensed trained professional trainer to train them to do pushups. Anything less is just dangerous and unbrofessional.
I have a friend that did 50 pushups once, and they had to amputate his arm because he tore up all the muscles and there was no saving anything. Some crazy shit, dude.
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The Llama
07-07-2012 at 11:20 PM.
07-07-2012 at 11:20 PM.
The obvious dangers aside, I'm in. Are we going to post results?

OK, initial test: rank 3 with 22 push ups. Is Monday going to be the start of week 1?
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stephenNYC
07-08-2012 at 12:05 AM.
07-08-2012 at 12:05 AM.
I did 25 two weekends ago and christ, i was sore for like two days.
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PaintTheSkyGrey
07-08-2012 at 12:39 AM.
07-08-2012 at 12:39 AM.
Quote from The Llama :
The obvious dangers aside, I'm in. Are we going to post results?

OK, initial test: rank 3 with 22 push ups. Is Monday going to be the start of week 1?
No. You should start on Week 3. >20 pushups is Week 3. Says so on Week 1.
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07-08-2012 at 01:09 AM.
07-08-2012 at 01:09 AM.
Quote from PaintTheSkyGrey :
No. You should start on Week 3. >20 pushups is Week 3. Says so on Week 1.
Right. Week 1 is week 3. Although she'll be on week 1. Which I assume means that 7 days in pushups for a man is like 21 for a woman.


I guess a better question is: are we all going to start the program on Monday?
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