I can only do 3 pushups!

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  • robinogue
    robinogue Posts: 1,117 Member
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    it will improve! I can know do 10 properly...
  • Shelbert79
    Shelbert79 Posts: 517 Member
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    I look at it like "I CAN do 3 whole pushups, go me!" In a week you'll be able to do double that, if not more, trust me! Feel good in that you're doing it, where other people don't even try. :smile:
  • 2befit2
    2befit2 Posts: 58 Member
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    I can't even do 1 when I started working out, I just stayed in plank position, now I can do 20 push up jacks....:happy: that's within 6 months time
  • traceyjayne1964
    traceyjayne1964 Posts: 130 Member
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    thats 3 more than i can do :laugh:
  • jmilian825
    jmilian825 Posts: 193 Member
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    I started at only doing 2 now I can do 9 :) it improves with time.
  • usteward
    usteward Posts: 112 Member
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    BUMP
  • Mrsfullwood
    Mrsfullwood Posts: 172 Member
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    That's the exercise I hate doing the most on 30 Day Shred....I have no upper body strength.
  • BigBrewski
    BigBrewski Posts: 922 Member
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    Stick with it..it does get better. In a few days you will do 4 and then 5 and next thing you know you will be doing 10. Just keep working at it and stay focused.
  • Hummingbird26
    Hummingbird26 Posts: 13
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    I can only do 3 push ups and I'm over the moon!!!!
    I couldn't do any at all at my first attempt :-)
  • Polly758
    Polly758 Posts: 623 Member
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    It gets easier--

    A month ago I was doing pushups on the counter

    Then a weight bench

    NOW GROWNUP PUSHUPS

    so excited :bigsmile:
  • sthrnchick
    sthrnchick Posts: 771
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    It definitely does... I actually did 18 last night ( the big boy real ones!) I couldnt do 3 without dying 2 months ago!!
  • Rae6503
    Rae6503 Posts: 6,294 Member
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    When I started last fall I would do 3 real push ups and follow that with 5 girly-ones, and 3 sets of that. I no longer do them often but I can now bench press 100lbs.
  • LovelyLifter
    LovelyLifter Posts: 560 Member
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    im up to 25 big boy pushups at a time...

    tho i rarely do them now....I bench 110 right now....that usually takes care of that....but it got easier....I just pushed for 1 more a week.....I started at 3.....and they looked horrible when I first started
  • JennieAL
    JennieAL Posts: 1,726 Member
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    Keep going. I could barely do 2-3 a year ago. I dropped and did 10 real ones in front of a construction crew one day just for fun!! :bigsmile:
  • misticache
    misticache Posts: 364 Member
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    That's three more than me......

    Amen sister
  • NewTeena
    NewTeena Posts: 154 Member
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    Fantastic! Soon you'll be doing 4!

    A journey of a thousand miles begins with just one step.

    :flowerforyou:
  • jdsmom0104
    jdsmom0104 Posts: 236
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    abso-tively! i could only do 2 when i started... not sure how many i'm up to now, but 8-10 sounds @ right...
  • VanessaGS
    VanessaGS Posts: 514 Member
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    On the 30 Day Shred I could only do like 3 pushups in the beginning. Ten days later I was doing 23. It will get better. Just gotta build up the strength. Try each day to do one more than the day before.
  • LadyKatieBug
    LadyKatieBug Posts: 178 Member
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    I agree 3 is good for starting out. I couldn't even get passed one of them. your no weakling at all.
  • Tonnina
    Tonnina Posts: 979 Member
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    Ha! I can't even do one! I don't have any upper arm strength... YET! :-) Keep at it you'll be doing lots more soon, I can tell!

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