Push ups

rduhlir

Try starting on your knees doing girly-ups. Then when you can get 20 of those with ease, graduate up to the real thing. No one is going to knock you for doing the girly ups. Even I do them when I can't hit that goal number. I just try harder next time to do less and less girlies and more and more of the real deal.

MidwestAngel

Start with incline(even on the wall) and work your way to the floor.

This also works for other things too, heh

tracymat

These are awesome suggestions!!

FullOfWin

I greatly increased the number of pushups I can do by increasing the amoutn of weight I can bench press.

FitbeTMF

I greatly increased the number of pushups I can do by increasing the amoutn of weight I can bench press.

Working on that as well

BeingAwesome247

I like the wall and knee options.
Also something that has helped me with doing regular push ups - a wider stance with my legs.

busymom11

If you have stairs with room at the bottom, use them. Start at the 5th stair or so. Do sets at that stair until you feel strong enough to try the next stair. Keep progressing til your on the floor.

prairiewalker

Use a stability ball under your hips to do the push ups

Over time, place the stability ball under your thighs, then shins,

...then try the full military style push up.

The time sequence it will take depends are your overall strength, determination and dedication.

Good luck.

corrinnebrown

Keep doing them. When I started p90x. I could do maybe 20 in an HOUR. When I finished I was well over 167!

bumblebums

For some people, it isn't chest or arm strength but the core strength that is lacking.

So TRY PLANKS! There are a lot of plank styles out there, but any one of them will strengthen your core and help you with the push-up.

newcs

start doing incline push-ups - ie. with the same form you would if parallel to the ground, place your hands against the wall, keep your elbows in and lower your body towards the wall.

repeat.

over time you will find you can increase the angle so you are lower and lower down the wall, or off a table.

eventually you will reach ground level, and after that, raise your legs on something......

This is the best way I've found. I used a bench at the gym. You can also do regular pushups but do them shallow so you don't go all the way down. Then just gradually increase how low you get. Sometimes even just holding at the top of what would be a pushup can help you develop those muscles too (similar to planks but different hand position).

kathleennf

It was my goal for my 50th birthday because i had never ever in my entire life been able to do ONE. I did first the girly knee ones then the ones on an incline as someone else suggested. Finally I made it - do to 3 on my birthday. Now, 7 months later I am doing 4 sets of 7, and still making progress!

Missylydia

Yup, practice.
What i did, when i couldn't even do one proper push up was work up to 3 sets of 20 girly ones
THEN I was able to do a few proper ones.
Keep doing them to failure and always do 3 sets.
THEN you will kick *kitten*!
:drinker:

NicoleSchimmel

I have an app on my Samsung Android phone. You enter how many you can do, and how many you want to do. It then sets up a routine for you. For example, on day one I did 24 push ups (5 push ups, 60 second break two times, then 6 push ups and a 60 second break, and then four push ups with a 60 second break totalling 24).

Search for push up apps on your phone.

eyeshuh

I also did wall then knee then full! You just have to do them until you can properly do them. I was pretty excited the first time I could do full push-ups for the 30DS! Doing a full push-up without having to be on my knees was one of my first fitness goals.

You can do eet!

HMVOL7409

Practice; Just by doing them and building upperbody and core strength. Use to struggle about a year ago doing a few and in a recent crossfit wo I did 50 in a row with no issue.