Thread 76512392

How the FUCK do I get good at push-ups?

>>76512392 (OP)
Count how many you can do before being unable to do another. Write down that number. Then rest until you're no longer fatigued, this could take between a few hours to a couple of days. Do them again trying to do a least 1 more pushup than the last time. Repeat ad nauseam.

>>76512392 (OP)
Do them and do exercises that help you do them

>>76512392 (OP)
I once broke my front tooth doing clap pushups while 14 beers deep

>>76512480
Sounds fucking painful, how's the tooth looking now? Did you get work done?

>>76512392 (OP)
There's a toy called Perfect Push-up. It's good if your wrist doesn't take weight at 90 degrees. Or a pair of hex dumbbells. Slow and steady improvement is key. I do 100, 3 times a week (on off-days, before stretching), over however many sets it takes. One day it will be 2x50.

>>76512392 (OP)
I could rape all of them

>>76512401
sounds tedious and unfun

>>76512494
Oh dude it gets worse
>At friends 21st
>Always outdrink my friends
>Convinced I cannot get drunk
>No food in me
>Beer off with alcoholic friend
>Blackout
>Wakeup
>Hit the dance floor
>Do pretty well, but trip and fall
>Try to save face by doing clap pushup
>Fail bad
>Tooth broken
>Friends have pictures of me sitting in throwup
>Friends have videos of me getting hosed of in shower
>Apparently I thanked his sister for making out with me (We didn't make out)
>It's not all bad though
>She told my friends if I said I made out with her, to go along with it
>God kill me

>>76512480
I'll be honest though, wasn't that painful. I got a filling; now it's indistinguishable from my other teeth.

added 10 to my max by just trying to make progress on my push lifts - weighted dips, incline bench, french press
make sure your hands are a little below your shoulders (towards ass) versus being in line with them
try to keep your elbows close to your body versus letting them go outwards
just get better

>>76512726
It could be worse.
>at home for summer vacation in college
>friends also home from their schools
>have a fire at friend's house
>binge drink like a 20 year old retard who thinks getting blasted is peak
>black out
>apparently started yelling about how I was "yoked like Gaston"
>declared i would do push ups over the fire to demonstrate my strength
>fell chest first into the fire and burned myself
>friends try to bandage burns, but I keep hitting on friend's sister by twisting my burned nipple and yelling "I'm so hard this doesn't even hurt" and licking my lips
>then smash my face into deck railing while trying to throw up over it
>incoherently drunk, half naked, and trying to wipe away my bloody nose
>friends guide me to the tub before I totally pass out
>wake up six hours later shivering in a tub smeared with blood (me and the tub) and with my chest wrapped in bandages
To this day, my right nipple looks like a piece of chewed pepperoni from the scarring and the friend's sister calls me Gaston whenever she sees me

>>76512392 (OP)
Have you tried doing more push ups?

>>76513498
God man, in another life, we would have either of been best friends or archrivals

>>76512392 (OP)
Do 4 sets of half your max for, 3-5 times a week. For 4 weeks. Then test new max and repeat.

You'll hit 100+ reps in a few months.

>>76512472
I don't get this image.

>Broke wrist/shoulder last year
>Now I can't do push-ups
What's a good way to start doing them again? My doctor said I'm healed enough to start working out, but he's a fatso so I thought I'd ask here.

>>76512392 (OP)
Do like 70% of your limit throughout the day spread out whenever you feel like it and you'll improve with time

>>76514031
How would you feel if you hadn't had breakfast this morning?

>>76512607
What do you think lifting is?
>lift 135lbs
>write it down
>next workout either do 135 again or try to do 140lbs
>repeat for several years
Seriously what are you even talking about?

>>76512726
>>She told my friends if I said I made out with her, to go along with it
>>God kill me
sounds based tb.h

Benches & Rows.
Any heavy compound that uses the muscles required for push-ups will do, then incrementally overload.

I never practice push-ups but can do 40 straight because I've been benching diligently.

>>76512392 (OP)
>>76512472
Lose weight, start with sissy pushups if you have to, prioritize form, forget whatever bullshit you got meme'd into believing about quantity > quality. Pushups are easy to fake and some retard doing thousands of reps for a record is not doing actual pushups.

>>76514031
>>76514960
>question is supposedly not supported by research
>get asked at a neurological assessment
>wasnt aware of the meme
>spend 5 minutes explaining different ways i could have felt, including some 'better' ways
>instead of being unable to consider hypotheticals, the psych had to stop me from considering every possible outcome
>mfw finally got the autism diagnosis

>>76515321
>>76512726
>break up with zoomer ex
>constant drama over nothing, told me she tried to baby trap me and tried to pass it off as a positive
>go visit friend and his wife a couple hours away
>they've pretty much given up so they're almost in bed by 10, after napping after work until 6
>his sister in law lives downstairs
>year younger than my ex
>recent breakup
>sit outside bullshitting by the fire after buddy and wife go to bed
>come back in
>fuck, suck, whatever until 4am
>never mention it again. happened a couple more times
My life is just one giant compilation of dirty uncle stories.