[QUOTE=Darknife;28162629]Or maybe your just a closet bad ass.
Are you making right angles at your elbows when you go down/ touch the ground with your chest? If so, your golden ponyboy.[/QUOTE]
Whilst I object to being called ponyboy, I did what you described. I guess this could be easier then I thought.
After this thread I was inspired to start my planche training, are there people who are interested in learning planche push ups? If so, should I create a thread?
[QUOTE=Rago;28304638]After this thread I was inspired to start my planche training, are there people who are interested in learning planche push ups? If so, should I create a thread?[/QUOTE]
just post it here.
[editline]26th February 2011[/editline]
or in the fitness sub-forum
Starting tomorrow,initial test was 13 but then I did it again and got 15 :buddy:. Pretty pumped, as a reward for sticking through the program, I'm gonna ask out a chick I like to the school formal. Wish me luck.
Shouldn't the pushups be in weight rather than age? The heavier you are the more you have to lift.
Fell ill a week ago so now I decided to just restart everything.
I added Situp and some weight lifting too so now I got pushups, squats, situps and some weights and I can already see some changing in my body, positive side too! V:v:V
Just tried and damn... I need to build up some arm muscle. I have very little fat on my body, especially arms and hands and the muscles dont even seem small, medium i'd say. But theyre so lazy!
im on week 4
my arms are begging for mercy though. i tried to do the first day of week 4 and i couldnt today
After a ridiculous amount of exercise, I have gone from level 3 (17 pushups) to level 5 (56 Pushups)
i'll give this a go, kinda late but oh well
I hit the one set that was around 130 push ups, lost track of the program, went back to previous workout and got stuck
I took 3 days off, when I came back, I did the day so easy that I'm completely ready to go back to my max
if you get stuck, take a weekend off
I always get stuck at the end of week 3 on this, and I've done up to that point a few times. I stopped a couple of months ago, but in gym class today we had to see how many push ups we could manage and I did 32. I don't think that's too bad for not working out at all for that amount of time.
Damn, I couldn't get past week 5 and got tired of repeating the same day. I need to start this again, I was digging the results up until I was stuck.
Sad thing is, 6 months ago I could probably do this.
After living on my own, through winter and smoking, God knows I could do maximum 50...
The Army makes me do push ups everyday but uhh I'll do it.
I just stopped because I noticed that my weight lifting was making me stronger anyways. I just stopped after week 6.
Got my wisdom teeth put last monday and the suckers are still hurting when I try to do push ups. :smith:
Definitely going to redo week 4.
I've been working on increasing my arm strength by doing dumbbell excersises and pushups for the last month since I was a weak fuck before (I'm still relatively weak, but not nearly as much). Before I started working out I was completely exhausted after only 10 pushups, now I can do 20+ without a problem. I'll probably try this sometime.
Been swimming a lot more lately, and holy shit my pushup count went from 40 to 80 damn fast.
Fuck dumbbells, fuck gyms, swimming is best.
Just started up and did week 1 day 1.
Managed 15 consecutive at the end there.
[editline]3rd March 2011[/editline]
Feel pretty tired now and reaching 100 in six/seven weeks seems unrealistic :v:
I got so busy with school i forgot a few days, now is when i catch up!
Just comlpeted the last day of week 3, damn that was tough
Good job doing something like this guys, but once you get the hang of it you should go to a gym and lift some weights, the pushups will be useless after a bit.
There are many variations of pushups. Saying that they'll become useless and you need to lift weights to go beyond is bro-science.
After normal pushups move to diamond pushups>one-armed assisted pushups>half one-armed pushups>full on-armed pushups>etc..
Saying that you can't become big or strong with calisthenics is nonsense even though becoming big without weights takes longer than normal, you'll be much more agile and able to use your strength more effectively.
Even I have to admit that fact while I prefer lifting over calisthenics.
[QUOTE=Bftony;28407199]There are many variations of pushups. Saying that they'll become useless and you need to lift weights to go beyond is bro-science.
After normal pushups move to diamond pushups>one-armed assisted pushups>half one-armed pushups>full on-armed pushups>etc..
Saying that you can't become big or strong with calisthenics is nonsense even though becoming big without weights takes longer than normal, you'll be much more agile and able to use your strength more effectively.
Even I have to admit that fact while I prefer lifting over calisthenics.[/QUOTE]
Lol after you can do 100 pushups, you will see minimal muscle gains. Once it takes you 100 pushups to become tired, it is just an endurance exercise. Calisthenics is awesome but pushups are just a small part, and diamond pushups are pretty similar so once you can do 100 normal pushups it will only take you a little bit to catch up. And one armed pushups are too hard to do properly for reps right away, it will take lots of time to be able to do them properly and for reps, and all that could be spent on something else. There is no medium for pushups where you can do 8-12 reps for 3 sets, because once you can do that, the next time you will do much more. The way to make muscles grow is to constantly increase weight and keep the rep range low.
Calisthenics ignores MANY bodyparts as well.
My buddies here disagree though.
[img]http://www.notyouraveragefitnesstips.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/08/calisthenics-exercises.jpg[/img]
[img]http://davidgoad.files.wordpress.com/2010/01/atlas2.jpg[/img]
Charles Atlas
[img]http://www.plaatjesupload.nl/bekijk/2011/01/31/1296474567-70.jpg[/img]
Eugen Sandow
All trained with calisthenics and no weight lifting, except for the first one(sorry can't remember his name)he did a few weightlifting exercises but mostly to show off his strength.
There are more examples to this.
It's not true that calisthenics ignore a lot of body parts, you just need to know what available exercises there are and boy there are a heck of a lot!
[QUOTE=Bftony;28407826]My buddies here disagree though.
[img_thumb]http://www.notyouraveragefitnesstips.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/08/calisthenics-exercises.jpg[/img_thumb]
[img_thumb]http://davidgoad.files.wordpress.com/2010/01/atlas2.jpg[/img_thumb]
Charles Atlas
[img_thumb]http://www.plaatjesupload.nl/bekijk/2011/01/31/1296474567-70.jpg[/img_thumb]
Eugen Sandow
All trained with calisthenics and no weight lifting, except for the first one(sorry can't remember his name)he did a few weightlifting exercises but mostly to show off his strength.
There are more examples to this.
It's not true that calisthenics ignore a lot of body parts, you just need to know what available exercises there are and boy there are a heck of a lot![/QUOTE]
only the last guy is intense, the first couple are just fat
Yeah, the first one also did wrestling.
[QUOTE=Bftony;28409452]Yeah, the first one also did wrestling.[/QUOTE]
and the guy whos actually ripped, guarantee you he didn't do just pushups
even if he did calisthenics, he did them with weights (weighted dips, pullups, etc.) hence what I said about weight
You said lift weight, I guess I misinterpreted that and didn't see you'd also mean weight assisted exercises.
So yeah, in that sense you are right although the last one claimed to have trained weightless while the second picture, Charles Atlas, did weight assisted shit.
That Eugen Sandow did however do some entertaining stuff as in picking up barbells with one arm and chain breaking with his hands and with his chest.
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