Push-ups
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Well, no. But doing pushups on an incline effectively "lightens the load" while still correctly engaging the same core, shoulder, chest, and leg muscles. You don't get the right muscle engagement with girl pushups.If I can't do a push-up I can't very well take my head off to lighten the load.
A girl push-up IS the same concept as doing incline.
Wich I alread agreed was a good idea.
Maybe you shouldn't quote using just a small portion of my post.
You still work all the same muscles. Short of your toes!
I have psoriatic arthritis and can't do regular push-ups on my toes.
You make it sound like when you do a girl push-up you use your tongue or something. If I added the weight/incline back it would be exactly the same.0 -
I need to work on this myself, have been trying to do a real push up since January and can still only get out about 10 girl push ups, my upper body strength is pathetic. I think I'll try and build this 100 push ups thing into my routine, start with my knees and then onto full ones. Thanks!0
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Okay, do girl pushups then. I'm not the boss of you.
Well, no. But doing pushups on an incline effectively "lightens the load" while still correctly engaging the same core, shoulder, chest, and leg muscles. You don't get the right muscle engagement with girl pushups.If I can't do a push-up I can't very well take my head off to lighten the load.
A girl push-up IS the same concept as doing incline.
Wich I alread agreed was a good idea.
Maybe you shouldn't quote using just a small portion of my post.
You still work all the same muscles. Short of your toes!
I have psoriatic arthritis and can't do regular push-ups on my toes.
You make it sound like when you do a girl push-up you use your tongue or something. If I added the weight/incline back it would be exactly the same.
But it's not the same movement. You're taking out half of your leg muscle, engaging your core differently, and changing the angle of your arms relative to your chest.
I could do girl pushups until the cows came home. I started doing real, incline pushups, and now I can do real, standard pushups because I trained the correct muscles in the correct way.0 -
Don't do girl pushups (on your knees). Do pushups on an incline. Start at the wall if that's all you can do at first. Lower the incline until you get all the way to the floor.
Totally agree with this! When you do "girl push ups" you are not using your core the way you do with a "real" pushup.... inclined or wall pushups will get you to standard pushups much faster. Good luck!0 -
Okay, do girl pushups then. I'm not the boss of you.
Well, no. But doing pushups on an incline effectively "lightens the load" while still correctly engaging the same core, shoulder, chest, and leg muscles. You don't get the right muscle engagement with girl pushups.If I can't do a push-up I can't very well take my head off to lighten the load.
A girl push-up IS the same concept as doing incline.
Wich I alread agreed was a good idea.
Maybe you shouldn't quote using just a small portion of my post.
You still work all the same muscles. Short of your toes!
I have psoriatic arthritis and can't do regular push-ups on my toes.
You make it sound like when you do a girl push-up you use your tongue or something. If I added the weight/incline back it would be exactly the same. But it's not the same movement. You're taking out half of your leg muscle, engaging your core differently, and changing the angle of your arms relative to your chest.
I could do girl pushups until the cows came home. I started doing real, incline pushups, and now I can do real, standard pushups because I trained the correct muscles in the correct way.
That's wonderful! For you.
If I weighed 100lbs and didn;t have arthritis I'd do some with you.
And just to argue some more...when you do inclines you take out the same obstacles.0 -
Bumpity bump....0
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I can't do regular push ups either....i do incline pushups and weights to gain strength...then maybe i will get to the point where i can do regular pushups0
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I have found this very helpful
http://nerdfitness.com/blog/2011/02/15/proper-push-up/
started with the wall push ups and moved this week to inclined ones
before I did girl push ups but my elbows were way to wide, so I wasn't doing it the right way...0 -
This!Do as many pushups as you can, even if thats only 1 & then immediately start doimg modified oushups until failure. Doimg modified will get you stronger & you will be able to complete more pushups every week... Good luck!
I only started push ups last week, and can only do them on my knees, but every day I attempt to do one, and everyday I am getting closer to being able to do that ONE regular push up. Until then, I make my knee push ups slow and controlled.0 -
Thank you for this!!0 -
Some of both. Start in the pushup position (regular pushups) and slowly lower yourself; this builds muscle. Go about 1/2 way and then try to push back up. Even the effort (even if you can't get anywhere) will build your muscle and some day you'll be able to do full pushups.
After working at that for a few minutes, you can switch to girl pushups and build muscle that way too.0 -
Checked out the site & the plan - I think I'm going to do this! C25k is working for me for running, why not a program for pushups? :bigsmile:
yes! this is how I managed to go from one to 30 push-ups in no time (one month, to be honest
). I'm almost 46 and this is the first time in my life that I can do more than 5. great plan! Don't do girl's variation, just go step by step with proper one and you'll succeed soon.
Love improving on & adding things that I can do anywhere (like running and/or pushups), and hoping this will keep me from getting derailed from my workouts when I'm on vacation or away from home and my DVD player!0 -
I can't do regular push-ups (broken big toe, taking it's sweet time to be 'normal' again), so I do girl ones, but with my knees on a box rather than on the floor at the same level as my hands. I can still do more girl ones with my knees on the floor than I can with raised knees, and I feel the raised ones in my triceps more. Can't compare with 'regular' though cos I can't do them! Interesting how changing the various angles at the shoulder seems to work different sets of muscles more or less (if that makes sense! ) 0
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"girl" push-ups will get you to the point where you can do real push-ups. You can do some dips too. They will strengthen your arms, shoulders and chest.
if she cant do push ups she deff cant do dips...
I can do dips all day (well at least 100, on the bench, but I can't do a push up to save my life.. there's a flaw in that logic somewhere....0 -
Just did day 1, level 2, on my knees. Boy I'm weak. By the end of this I want to be able to do at least a few on my toes.0
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good luck0
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Make sure you have the correct form though!!!
^^^ this ^^^
I hate seeing the people that plank or do pushups with their *kitten* up in the air like they are doing the "downward dog" stance in yoga!0 -
Just did day 1, level 2, on my knees. Boy I'm weak. By the end of this I want to be able to do at least a few on my toes.
Keep it up, my fiancee's doing the same thing. She's working through the program from her knees first and will then do it again from her toes once she completes that.0 -
You can work your way up to doing full pushups using pushups on your knees or wall pushups or inclined pushups, it doesn't really matter. What matters is you do them and push yourself to work up to full pushups.0
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Quick question, if training for push ups, I see a lot of people say everyday, so does the muscle rest rule not apply here if you you lift regularly. For example, you do an upper body day, can you still do push ups next day without impeding recovery?0
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I could barely do five "girl" pushups when I started out. I worked myself up to about 15 girl pushups, every now and then attempting regular pushups until I got to where I could do 2 or 3 regular pushups in a row. And then I went from there.
I'm currently doing 3 sets of 35 regular pushups as part of my strength training routine now. I don't care long it takes me, but I will keep increasing them until I can do 3 sets of 100.0
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