Board 8 > How many pushups can you do? [Weightlifting]

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Welcome to another fitness poll! Last one was on pullups, and it was nice to see over half of the responders can do 2+! Good job board 8!

This one is for pushups. If you can do a lot but feel one of the bottom two applies more to you, go with that one!

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in a row or in sets?

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NFUN posted...

in a row or in sets?

In a row

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apparently I can do at least 30 but didn't push past that to see my limit

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NFUN posted...

apparently I can do at least 30 but didn't push past that to see my limit

Thats really good man! If thats something you dont do often you could probably knock it up to 50+ within a pretty small time frame of doing high reps daily

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I've only ever been able to do 20-30 no matter if I was in the best shape of my life or not.

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man I haven't done any upper body workout in a long time.

let's find out. this will be humbling.

got stuck at 9.5

on the bright side my chest feels great lol

Menji posted...

I've only ever been able to do 20-30 no matter if I was in the best shape of my life or not.

Pushups can be weird like that and ive yet to figure out why

I can put 10 pounds on my back or 45 pounds and my body seems to always tap out at 12 max. Take that ten pounds off though and i can crank out 40-45

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turbopuns3 posted...

on the bright side my chest feels great lol

Good job man!

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Oh, not in sets?

Usually I do 10 a minute for 10 minutes then max out at the end.

Straight up from go though? I'll have to test this tomorrow.

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Three \_()_/

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i do 50ish decline for regular sets these days, dunno if my form is impressive, so i'm reasonably sure on the 51-100 range for flat

(edit) i guess this really just means 50+ advanced? if decline (elevated feet) counts as advanced
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53 in a row

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Shonen_Bat posted...

Three \_()_/

3 more than a lot of people can do! Good job!

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I think this was one of the first things I did when I learned how fitness worked (somewhere around 16-17) and ended up going nuts. Average is around 35/set with good form - more to start, and petering out going to max.

My flexibility is ass, but push-ups, I can manage.

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In a row: 30-35

That's normally how many I crank out before flexing my back to "rest" during a PT test (yay Army). Afterwards I can usually get 25 more before time runs out.

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About 75 but by the end I'm sure I'm compromising form to squeeze the last few out

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iiaattgg posted...

Thats really good man! If thats something you dont do often you could probably knock it up to 50+ within a pretty small time frame of doing high reps daily

Would you recommend just doing the max push ups you can once a day or should it be multiple times a day?

I can do 30 now, though I did squeeze out one more so I could vote the 31-40 option

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I wish I could try but I just did chest yesterday and the thought of trying to do 40 is like AUGH

but I did 10 with a 25 plate on my back yesterday so

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ExThaNemesis posted...

I wish I could try but I just did chest yesterday and the thought of trying to do 40 is like AUGH

but I did 10 with a 25 plate on my back yesterday so

Love weighted ones

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let's see how my numbers compare after drinking tequila for hours

'merca

barely managed to squeeze out 11 and didn't even bother attempting 12 because it was 0% chance

hey, that's better!