Nooooo upper body strength

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  • marieautumn
    marieautumn Posts: 928 Member
    when i started crossfit i had the same problem. i could hardly do a girly push up (on the knees instead of plank). just keep doing them every night and you arms will get better. i think ring rows really helped me too.
    EDIT-I can now do normal non girly pushups AND hindu pushups

    I had to look up what a Hindu pushup was. In my martial arts school, we called them "under-the-wire" pushups, haha. Hindu falls of the tongue much more easily.

    lol the guys at my gym call them stripper push ups..i have no idea why
  • Emancipated_Tai
    Emancipated_Tai Posts: 751 Member
    bump!
  • fergie137
    fergie137 Posts: 33
    bump
  • steph1278
    steph1278 Posts: 483 Member
    I am in the same boat. I will have to check out those links later tonight. Thanks.
  • JNick77
    JNick77 Posts: 3,783 Member
    I'm a little embarrassed to admit this but I have zero upper body strength. Even with lifting with 10 pound weights for the last month or so I can't even do one full girl push up or even a single pull up. Suggestions on getting stronger??

    Does your gym have those "pre-made" bars where the weights are fixed? They usually range from like 15lbs to 120lbs. Or even a short olympic bar, those are 25lbs.
  • jaxbeck
    jaxbeck Posts: 537 Member
    I'm a little embarrassed to admit this but I have zero upper body strength. Even with lifting with 10 pound weights for the last month or so I can't even do one full girl push up or even a single pull up. Suggestions on getting stronger??

    Does your gym have those "pre-made" bars where the weights are fixed? They usually range from like 15lbs to 120lbs. Or even a short olympic bar, those are 25lbs.


    I don't have a gym yet, I have a home gym of sorts...treadmill, resistance bands, weights plus I will try to go to our outdoor fitness park that has bars for pull ups
  • JNick77
    JNick77 Posts: 3,783 Member
    I'm a little embarrassed to admit this but I have zero upper body strength. Even with lifting with 10 pound weights for the last month or so I can't even do one full girl push up or even a single pull up. Suggestions on getting stronger??

    Does your gym have those "pre-made" bars where the weights are fixed? They usually range from like 15lbs to 120lbs. Or even a short olympic bar, those are 25lbs.

    I don't have a gym yet, I have a home gym of sorts...treadmill, resistance bands, weights plus I will try to go to our outdoor fitness park that has bars for pull ups

    Well that's a start. It sounds like you have a bench so do dumbell bench presses. Go as heavy as you can go for sets of 3 to 5. (i.e., start with 5lb dumbells do 5 reps, if too light then do 10lbs, 15lbs, 20lbs, until you hit a weight in which the next progression would be too heavy for 3 to 5 reps.) I would mix that up with dumbell floor presses. One day do flat bench press one day do floor press.

    Do dumbell shoulder presses, lying and / or overhead tricep extensions (NOT kickbacks), shoulder shrugs, and keep doing them chin-ups. Also do some dumbell rowing. Do this until your strength is good enough to do an olympic bar plus some weight.
  • jaxbeck
    jaxbeck Posts: 537 Member
    I'm a little embarrassed to admit this but I have zero upper body strength. Even with lifting with 10 pound weights for the last month or so I can't even do one full girl push up or even a single pull up. Suggestions on getting stronger??

    Does your gym have those "pre-made" bars where the weights are fixed? They usually range from like 15lbs to 120lbs. Or even a short olympic bar, those are 25lbs.

    I don't have a gym yet, I have a home gym of sorts...treadmill, resistance bands, weights plus I will try to go to our outdoor fitness park that has bars for pull ups

    Well that's a start. It sounds like you have a bench so do dumbell bench presses. Go as heavy as you can go for sets of 3 to 5. (i.e., start with 5lb dumbells do 5 reps, if too light then do 10lbs, 15lbs, 20lbs, until you hit a weight in which the next progression would be too heavy for 3 to 5 reps.) I would mix that up with dumbell floor presses. One day do flat bench press one day do floor press.

    Do dumbell shoulder presses, lying and / or overhead tricep extensions (NOT kickbacks), shoulder shrugs, and keep doing them chin-ups. Also do some dumbell rowing. Do this until your strength is good enough to do an olympic bar plus some weight.

    Those are some great tips, thank you!

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