How many press-ups can you do in a row?

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09 Mar 2008, 5:33 pm

I do 50 4-5 days a week. It took me about 6 months to go from only being able to do ten to 50, I haven't tried to increase in months.

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09 Mar 2008, 6:50 pm

Usually 40, which was roughly my goal when I started doing fitness on my own at the age of 15 (I actually used to do push ups to failure and little else until later on).
I could do many sets of 50-70* sometime during my early 20s; not sure why I'm kind of back to 40 if I try now (I don't specifically do push ups as of late) that I'm supposedly fitter (late 20s). I guess it's got to do with differences in the way I trained. . .

* maybe I was bouncing or something. . . :roll:

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09 Mar 2008, 7:52 pm

Brian003 wrote:

I don't even know what a press up is.

In high school I did 200 push ups a day for no apparent reason.

Does that count?

Pressup - Pushup...they are the same thing. Just different names so yes it does count.

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09 Mar 2008, 11:50 pm

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Yeah, it's pretty hard to compare unless you have formal criteria. I do 40 keeping good form, chest/nose to the floor to full arm extension, but I remember once doing 100 very sloppy ones, and I don't think I was in substantially better shape then.

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11 Mar 2008, 7:11 am

180 proper ones on knuckles, but done very begrudgingly.... I'm a karate kid and they're my least favourite part of training.

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11 Mar 2008, 8:26 am

I train for max strength and not endurance. Haven't trained pushups in years.

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11 Mar 2008, 11:07 am

Reodor_Felgen wrote:

I train for max strength and not endurance. Haven't trained pushups in years.

one-armed pushups (not with the pushing hand under the center of your body, but out to the side, where it belongs) may provide a challenge

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12 Mar 2008, 10:23 am

For those of you who can do more than 50 pushups, especially those of you who can do more than 100, how much do you weigh? I weigh 190 lbs and can barely do 25. When I weighed 230, I could do 30. I assumed I would be able to do a lot more when I lost weight.

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12 Mar 2008, 11:52 am

i have not counted until i could do no more, but i regularly do lots of 20

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if you lost muscle mass then that would reduce the amount you could do

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12 Mar 2008, 3:45 pm

gekitsu wrote:

Reodor_Felgen wrote:

I train for max strength and not endurance. Haven't trained pushups in years.

one-armed pushups (not with the pushing hand under the center of your body, but out to the side, where it belongs) may provide a challenge

Haven't trained one-armed in years either. Never managed to do many of them.

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12 Mar 2008, 8:22 pm

Interesting article in the New York Times on Pushups.

http://www.nytimes.com/2008/03/11/healt ... ei=5087%0A

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12 Mar 2008, 8:28 pm

I answered my own question in a previous message about the US Army standard for push-ups:

http://www.army.com/enlist/push-ups.html

For my age group, I would pass by doing the required 24, but if I were on active duty, I would need to do 34.

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12 Mar 2008, 8:41 pm

I weigh 71 kgs or above as of late (around 156 pounds), measure 168cm (somewhere between 5'6'' and 5'7'').

I noticed somewhat of an advantage in being lighter than most in excercises where I have to lift my own weight; especially in comparison to large but flabby or poorly built people I keep seeing at the gym or used to see at school (back when I was at school).
If I tried right now that my overall fitness level is not as good as in 2006; I'd settle for 40 push ups or a little bit more - I'm not sure I'd be able to reach 50 or over.

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12 Mar 2008, 11:42 pm

Used to do 60 a day in 6 sets of 10, then I got a job and started school so I had to abandon pretty much all exercise as I was too tired to work out. Almost 10pm right now and I gotta study for a test for tomorrow and I feel like hell because of work.

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13 Mar 2008, 11:01 am

I do 45 push ups without a break, three times a day, every other day. I also do 45 sit ups and 45 leg lifts within a short time period during exercise.

Nevertheless I'm not muscular, have 2 inches of fat on my waist and if I try to run I get tired and out of breath after about 1/7 of a mile.

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