how many pushups can you do?

[Bible_Belt]

About 15 max, but then I've always been sh!te at pushups.

Me too! My upper body looks fairly in-shape, but my pushups stink! I remember getting compliments from girls about having a nice chest, and then failing the rotc physical fitness test for pushups the next day. I had to do like 28 I think, and I failed about every other time. I have long arms and far to travel! The roid-head muscle freaks have no flexibility, so when they do a pushup, they travel about six inches up and down. I also stink at distance running, but I maxed out the situps every test with time to spare.

 

[PeeGee]

what are pushups?

Hahaha

 

[ATP]

I did 3 the other day.

 

[taiyuu_otoko]

I've gotten pretty good results in the past by increasing my pushup count through doing pyramids.

Start with one pushup, wait a couple seconds, then do two. Then do one.

Then go up to three and back down, then four, etc.

When you get get up to ten, (1,2,3 etc, 10,9,8..) you'll be doing a total of hundred. This actually only takes a couple weeks.

If you slowly decrease the time between "sets," you should be able to get up to a hundred pushups (non stop) within a couple months.

I've done this while in high school, in my twenties, and once again in my thirties.

Maybe its time to try again in my forties.

 

[jocca]

Personal record is 167 but I've been doing them consistantly since I was 12 with about 50 a day for a couple of years after. A real challange is behind the back clap pushups. I've only ever managed to do 15 of those in one hit however.

 

[Being_the_Don]

I average thirty in a set.