Do you enjoy pushups?

Oh man I was beginning to think I was a wuss. I can do maybe 4-5 regular push ups, then I have to go to my knees and I'm doing Jillian thinking how in the F*&*&^k are they doing that? BUT, starting out 2 months ago I could do 1. MAYBE. So now I'm up to 4 or 5. But even the ones on my knees do a number on me. Seriously, those particular muscles have to be my weakest. I dont have a problem doing any of her other stuff, just push ups. Glad to see I'm not alone. I dont HATE them, I just cant DO them. YET.

OMG! hate 'em! I'm in a Mama Wants Her Body Back- 8 week fitness program. We do plenty of them and I hate every single one that I do! LOL

I hate them. I suck at them. I can do 4 or 5 boy ones, and that's only on an energetic day. To be fair though I couldn't do one 6 months ago so practise does help.
But still. They're horrible and should die.

I suck at them too - can only do 4 or 5 boy ones and I'm a boy!

I aim to increase the number of pushups I can do by doing as many "boy" ones to failure then drop my knees to the floor and do "girl" ones to ten or failure - three sets with pullups in between so I am doing pull and push in one routine and that's twice a week.

Maybe not call them boy and girl ones really - maybe call them regulars and halfs; calling them boy ones gives too much credit to the boys and takes credit from you girls :drinker:

Come to think of it - why are there boys who can do pretty good weights on bench press but suck at pushups? Possibly because it is harder to cheat the weight up in pushups!

Aw PU are easy, just gotta do them.

I got some of the Perfect Pushup devices. Followed the instructions and after a few (okay 6 months, okay okay 9 nine months)

I did +1000 push ups in about 3 hours.

Well I put the Perfect Push ups away, but for a while I was buying everybody the damn things.

Push ups are good when you get older cause if you fall down you can push yourself up!

Even if you are young too. If you get drunk and fall down then you can Push yourself up!

The concept is failure. Then do it again in a couple of days. Really look online for the Perfect Pushup instructions even that way of building up will help you.

Good luck!!

Absolutely not!.. I hate them. I have to do them on my knees as well and i cant do very many. In fact, my arms and back are killing me from doing them last night. I keep telling myself the same thing.. keep at it and youll get better. Its frustrating at first but I think it will be worth it in the end.

Love them. The 100 pushup challenge was great motivation for me.

Same for me! Just finished week 5 today! Granted, I've been doing them on my knees for this run, next time I think I'm going to switch to 1 knee, and then hopefully when I finish that one I'll be able to move up to real ones, etc. etc. =]]]

I always say that I would rather run a straight 10 miles than do any kind of strength training. I lift free weights but I cannot for the life of me do push ups. Every time I do them, my wrists get painfully sore. I know push ups are supposed to be really good for you, but my wrists can't handle it.

Be sure to stretch your forearms and wrists before and after push-ups. I'm capable of doing the push ups, but my wrists also get sore and end up being my limiting factor in how many I can do. My biggest issue was the forearm muscles getting tight and pulling on my wrist and elbow.

I love pushups! It's one of the best strength training exercises to work your whole body.
I do Les Mills body attack at the gym and there's a 4-5 minutes track of pushups and I do most of them on my toes. One of the pushup tracks we did recently I counted 65, I did them all on my toes!!!

Such a negative thread! Pushups are so awesome and you can get creative. My current favorites are plyo medicine ball pushups and narrow hand position (diamond) pushups!

I couldn't do a single proper push at the beginning of last year, but I was determined I would do them so I kept trying.....I've managed to do 55 push ups without stopping, yay! Goes to show if you're determined you can achieve things you never thought possible.

Push ups are really good for you!

I love push ups lol, I can definitely understand where the dislike of them can come in though. If you are having trouble with them, do as many as you can on your toes, and if/when that doesn't work, drop to the knees. Just keep at them and progress will come!

I used to hate them, but now I can do proper man push ups, I love them. Still hate lateral raises and arnold presses.

I have been doing ChaLEAN Extreme now for 5 months and still suck at pushup ...but I must say there has been a slight improvement,lol Keep at it...we will master it at some point! :laugh: I think I would have the strength to do a "real" pushup if I would lose more weight , and have less to pushup!!

I'm also doing the 100 pushup challenge. I'm on week 3 (again because day 2 was just too hard for my liking). I did 25 on my last fitness test!

eta: I cant say I enjoy them per say, but I enjoy being able to do more and feeling stronger.