75 in a row is no joke! Nice!Originally Posted by Nicodemus
And glad to hear how it works out for you. I guess that's one positive of D3 tanking so bad haha, more time for real life.
You're better off doing 10 very slowly and with perfect form. Then, you will have more time to play video games!
man i have done 500 push ups but it took me an hour and a lot of breaks
I was following a program to achieve 100 pushups per day. Everything was going great. I got up to 60 in one day until something went wrong with my right shoulder. It hurt to raise it above my head. I quit doing pushups altogether and it took like 6 months to heal. I bought these pushup handlebars, thinking it may help, but I haven't gone back and tried to build up again.
How often do you workout guys get chronic pains and injuries? It felt very demoralizing. All I was doing was some pushups...
You can avoid injury, but only by researching each exercise, doing them slowly, and doing warm ups. Most of what we know (or see in videos) about exercise is wrong. For instance, you always see people going fast, when slower is better and safer. People tend to "ego lift" by doing one almighty bench press, for example, with as much weight as possible so they can brag about the big number. As Dorian Yates said in his Blood and Guts video, the weight amount doesn't matter. It's just at tool to bring you to muscle failure. You don't typically think of fit people writing down instructions for perfect form in a notebook, but that's how you avoid injury.
Edit: In your case specifically, I will guess that you ran into trouble by only doing that one exercise. If some muscles get big while others remain small, going further with the exercise can put too much strain on the underdeveloped muscles. IIRC, some wide grip pull ups and pushups would hit almost everything in the upper body and maybe prevent your injury. Also, shoulder stabilizer exercises are a must. They are tiny and need strengthening or you guarantee yourself major shoulder problems.
Last edited by stillman; 08-08-2012 at 15:25.
Also, pushups are far more difficult for people who aren't slim. I am quite slim so doing 75 in a row (like I used to be able to) is an easier task because I'm lifting less weight with each rep.
I think that might've been your problem right there. Doing pullups, military press, and specific rotator cuff exercises all help keep the shoulder area strong and stable. Working out just one muscle group can cause muscle imbalances that then pull things out of alignment and lead to injury.
Through the 11 years that I've been lifting the only injury I've ever sustained has been a lower back one from ... trying to do deadlifts too fast.
Agreed with Stillman, proper form and not going for ego lifts is the key. I made this video just to push myself, but normally when I do pushups its 20-30 very slow controlled reps with full range of motion.
100 in a day is easy. just do 10 at a time and rest in between. even if you're out of shape, you should be able to do that. you have ALL day.
100 in a row takes some time. I know I can't do that unless I go very fast and count going up and down ;(
oh and since I'm writing back to healthy gamer (we need a nickname for you), I think your shakes are making me fat (okay, I've only gained 10 pounds and I suppose it could be partly muscle--but I haven't done anything lifting related, it's been almost completely cardio and a few push ups and crunches. They (the smoothies) are super good, but I think all the extra calories have disrupted the delicate balance. i don't have the time nor the energy to work out enough to burn all that off. do you use them as a meal replacement? I might have to go down to a smoothie and a single meal, they're that heavy (that would be losing two meals)
Haha you can call me Jack.
And yeah I use those as meal replacement, basically drink one in the mornings after my workout and then don't eat much until dinner.
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