How Many Push-Ups Can You Do?

this is horribly embarrassing but i can do one girly pushup and thats it.
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jennie

the last time I pushed to failure I did 80...and my arms were shaking by them.

Needless to say not only did I shock myself, but my trainer as well! We did the ♪♫♪ Happy Dance ♪♫♪ after that challenge!

this is horribly embarrassing but i can do one girly pushup and thats it.
:blushing:

jennie

You have to start somewhere! You only get better by working on it
I used to be able to do only girl pushups too.

I usually do 3 sets of 30-35 regular pushups on the days I work my chest. I had to work up to that. I've never tried to do them to failure though... I should challenge myself to that huh

Are you on facebook? There's a group of us on there that are doing the 'Hundred Pushups Challenge'. It's 3 times a week over 6 weeks. We only started yesterday (Monday), you're more than welcome to join us :flowerforyou:

Here is the website http://www.hundredpushups.com/

And here's the link to the facebook group http://www.facebook.com/?ref=home#!/home.php?sk=group_224873117538676&ap=1

The more the merrier!!!

You're not alone - I can only manage 10 at the moment!! lol We're all in the same boat!

I just requested to join - My name is Jae

I do desk pushups (push ups against the desk rather than on the floor) every day on my break at work. I do 25 in the morning and 25 in the afternoon each of front and reverse (with back to desk to work the triceps). I think I could probably do 50 if I really pushed it of the front type, but probably not the tricep pushup. On the floor, IDK, maybe 15 - 20??? But no way am I getting down on the nasty floor in my office. :noway:

But I'm not trying to break any pushup records, I just do it to define my arms and make sure that when I wave goodbye only my hand is waving.

I can do 50 on the wall...lol! 25 on my knees and have yet to even try on my toes.

I can do about 7 or 8 girly pushups with decent form. Real push ups. Forget it. I'm working on it though. P90 FTW!

I'm doing the stronglifts workout and with the goal of increasing my overall strength so I can do more pushups as well. I can do about 34 before dieing. Would need to do 39 to join the national guard, thinking about it for August to pay off school debt.

Push ups was one of my main goals when I started getting fit...There is something horribly embarrassing to a man when he has to do knee pushups because he is so out of shape.

I made it my goal as part of losing weight that I would be able to do good pushups and enough to impress people when I had to do them.

Ive taken a bit of a break (stupid wrist strain). I was doing 75-80 every other night in sets of 4-5 45 sec to 1 min rests in between sets. I'm guessing right now I'm probably 10% down from that.

I can do 25 girly push ups. I haven't tried them on my toes, but I'm working up to it.

When I first started I couldn't do a girly push up.. Than I moved up to doing 20 girly push ups.. Now I can do them on my toes I try to do about 4 sets of 10

I know I can do about 40 pushups just like that (never timed it or whatever)... When doing chest exercises, i sometimes superset with a push-up as follows: feet on stability ball, do pushups or feet on bench and use a medicine ball under hands and do pushups (I can only do 8 of these after killing chest with peck deck)!

well, a few months back I did the 100 pushup. I never got to the 100 at a time, but I could drop out sets of 40. I have since stopped so I have no clue where I am at the current moment. darn no I'm going to have to test myself later!

LOL! I thought the same for myself

I've read the best thing you can do for push-ups is get off your knees. Instead, start against a wall or on a bench and work your way to the floor.