push up limit?

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Hi ya'll~ HAve a quick Question...

When I started doing push ups 3 months ago, I couldn't do one full regular push up. So I did knee push up for 10 per set (did 100 total).

Now I can do regular push ups but it seems that looks like my limit... I can't do more than 10 and I get extremely tired.

What should I do?? I know other guys can do more than 10 when doing sets.
I feel like I'm not normal and weaker than my friends.
 
read wot u sed.. you just need to keep working at it and when u get tyred on ur toes drop back to your knees for a couple of sets, i find push ups mainly technique and practise makes perfect!!!!!
 
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True, I'm in the Army so we always do push-ups, almost daily. My push-ups never really increased until I started weightlifting seriously. Build your strength up and you will be able to do more. Also don't just do regular push-ups, try them with your feet elevated or try wide-arm and close-hand (diamond).
 
if you can do 10, thats good, try diffrent had possitions, like lower down toward your waist, higher, wide more narrow, all these will help you.

but mainly weight lifting will help more than anything. good luck
 
put it this way, i'm 16 yrs old and 17 in april, i started the gym 8 months ago and about 2 months ago i considered building my shoulders up more so i started on then to do push-ups, my max was only 15 with no previous attempts at it within my life...

now i do 50 every night and yes i weight train regularly...

i do 10 in my first set (warm up) then another 15 for the second set,
then i go and push myself into the third set of 25, at the end of that i'm gasping for breath and my shoulder already feel worked out, and that is every night...my count will expect to increase soon, so the whole point of this post from me is, i built up endurance of push ups mearly by time and effort, you DO the same and you'll BE the same
 
WOW Johnny! you do push ups evey day? Amazing!
So you can do push ups every day eh? I thought you have to rest a day after doing push ups or weightlifting.
Well for me... I do 6 sets of 5 regular push ups and then 5 sets of 10 knee push ups. After that~ I'm pooped.
 
I did 60 or so (can't remember exact number) the other week. It started hurting after about 10 or but i had to beat this guy at school who said he can do 50 :p
 
I used to do 200+ in one go, but you dont gain much after a while.

you gotta have rest days, and you shouldt just work your chest, its your gonna workout at all then you should work your whole body
 
manofkent said:
I used to do 200+ in one go, but you dont gain much after a while.

you gotta have rest days, and you shouldt just work your chest, its your gonna workout at all then you should work your whole body
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holy crap 200! yeah i don't normally do pushups i was just doing like a max test to see how many i could do. I don't think i can do any more 60, 200 is huge.
 
not really. I did 300 once as part of a charity day.

thing is, I run, im not very good tho, I can do 1.5miles in 10-12 mins which is ok but not that great. however, someone who is overweight, unfit and has never run before may take 30mins to get that far. then again someone who is a great runner could do it in 6mins.

so in the same sort of way, there are ppl that cant do a push up, you can do 60, i can do 200, and some guys can do 2000 without stopping.

so when you look at it like that you and me are not that far apart. plus when I was 16, I had 7 years of training and i weighted 100lbs. thats quite an advantage.
 
honestly, once you get to a level of fitness, and providing your pretty strong and pretty light, your body can heal its self very quickly.

For selection in the british SAS the soldiers have to run from 10-20miles a day for 3 months, most of that is up and down hills.

you'd be amazed at what the body can do.
 
2000 press ups, heh, one thing on this forum that really made me spat on the monitor in laughter, sorry but...no...
 
World Record for Non-Stop Push-Ups
RECORD HISTORY
6,006 Charles Linster (USA) 05-Oct-1965
7,026 Robert Louis Knecht (USA) 05-Feb-1976
7,650 Henry C. Marshal (USA) 01-Sep-1977
10,507 Minoru Yoshida (JAP) Oct-1980
 
WORLD RECORDS
non-stop: 10,507; Minoru Yoshida (JAP), Oct 1980 DETAILS
one year: 1,500,230; Paddy Doyle (GBR), Oct 1988 - Oct 1989
24 hours: 46,001; Charles Servizio (USA), 24/25 April 1993 at Hesperia
(new record claim, not yet verified: Jeffrey Warrick (USA), 46300)
1 hour: 3,877; Bijender Singh (IND), 20 Sept 1988 DETAILS AND NATIONAL RECORDS

30 minutes: 2,354; Rolf Heck (GER), 13 Nov 2000
10 minutes (women): 426; Renata Hamplová (TCH), Rekord-Klub SAXONIA Record Festival in Schwedt, 2 Sept 1995
5 minutes: 441; Giuseppe Cusano (GBR), Loftus Road Soccer Stadium at the Fulham v. Portsmouth game on 24 Nov 2003
3 minutes (women): 190; Renata Hamplová (TCH), Record Festival Pelhrimov 1995
one minute: Record claims up to 199 in one minute have been made. We do, however, not continue to publish these record claims, because it became impossible to judge about the correctness of the exercises at this speed.
one-armed, one week (168 hours): 16,723; Paddy Doyle (GBR), Feb 1996 in Birmingham
one-armed, 5 hours: 8,794; Paddy Doyle (GBR), 12 Feb 1996 in Birmingham
one-armed, 1 hour: 2521; Paddy Doyle (GBR), 12 Feb 1990 in Birmingham
one-armed, 30 minutes: 1382; Doug Pruden (CAN), 30 July 2003 at the Body Quest Health Club Edmonton
one-armed, 10 minutes: 546; Doug Pruden (CAN), 30 July 2003 at the Body Quest Health Club Edmonton
one-armed, on back of hands, one hour: 441; Bruce Swatton (GBR), 12. May 2003 in Plymouth
on fists: 5557 (in 3:02:30 hours), Doug Pruden (CAN), 9 July 2004, Body Quest Health Club Edmonton

1000 pushups on fists: 18:13 minutes, Doug Pruden (CAN), 9 July 2003 at the Body Quest Health Club Edmonton
on back of hands, 15 minutes: 585, Doug Pruden (CAN), 29 April 2005, Body Quest Health Club Edmonton RECORD HISTORY
on back of hands, 30 minutes: 1045, Doug Pruden (CAN), 29 April 2005, Body Quest Health Club Edmonton RECORD HISTORY
on back of hands, 1 hour: 1807, Doug Pruden (CAN), 29 April 2005, Body Quest Health Club Edmonton RECORD HISTORY
finger-tips, 5 hours: 8,200; Terry Cole (GBR), 11 May 1996 in Walthamstow
one finger: 124 Paul Lynch (GBR), 21 April 1992 in London
100 push-ups with feet at a 80 cm [2 ft 7 1/2 in] high table: 45.7 sec; Roy Berger (CAN), 24 Feb 2001 in Ottawa
with a 50 lb [22.68 kg] plate weight on his back: 4,100: Paddy Doyle (GBR), 28 May 1987 in Birmingham
with hands on raw eggs: 112; Johann Schneider (AUT) / a video can be downloaded here as Quicktime video (1.2 MB) or AVI video (1.4 MB)
4 hr relay (team of 40): 10,322; Nordkyllands Sports College in Frederikshavn (DEN) 31 May 2000
 
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