How many push-ups?

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Anonymous wrote:Woman, age 37, maybe 7 on toes, and I’m totally happy with that. My only fitness goals are to be strong enough to not have joint pain and to be able to do cardio for an hour a day to stave off my anxiety. No need to bother with push-ups.

But I am impressed with people who can do lots of them! Nice job, PPs!

You should. Push-ups are the most underrated exercise. They strengthen your back, core, and arms; will help prevent changes to posture as you age

I do all the exercises my PT tells me to. He says that push-ups are great for people who don’t have my joint issues and hyper flexibility like me. My core workouts are very gentle on my back but are plenty challenging.

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38F, 10-12 total. I did my first pushup ever about 7-8 months ago and it was such an accomplishment. I keep pushing my goal was to do the first one, then 5 pushup, 10, now 20 is the goal. I'd also like to do pullups. I very recently (this week) did my first unassisted chin up.

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38F, 10-12 total. I did my first pushup ever about 7-8 months ago and it was such an accomplishment. I keep increasing my goal number. First, it was to complete one push-up, then 5, 10, and now 20 is the goal. I'd also like to do pullups. I very recently (this week) did my first unassisted chin up.

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Anonymous wrote:44 and I can do 2. I have never been good at pushups although I do lift heavy weights.

What push-up progression program do people recommend?

I’m the 36 year old above you. The only way I got better was just add one each time I thought I could. So the first time I did 10, I started waiting for the time 10 felt easy enough to try for 11. Once I could do 20, I started doing them in sets of 8, trying to do 8-8 and then crank out enough to get me to 24. I didn’t start seriously working out until I was a little over 30, and started doing weight lifting around 31, so it has taken me years to get up to 48. You have to add them to every arm workout, and just keep doing them til you get a little better.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:44 and I can do 2. I have never been good at pushups although I do lift heavy weights.

What push-up progression program do people recommend?

I’m the 36 year old above you. The only way I got better was just add one each time I thought I could. So the first time I did 10, I started waiting for the time 10 felt easy enough to try for 11. Once I could do 20, I started doing them in sets of 8, trying to do 8-8 and then crank out enough to get me to 24. I didn’t start seriously working out until I was a little over 30, and started doing weight lifting around 31, so it has taken me years to get up to 48. You have to add them to every arm workout, and just keep doing them til you get a little better.

A lot of times the routines I do put pushups at the end of an arm strength training routine as a burnout. I guess they assume you can already do them, which I cannot. Where in an arm workout should I put them?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Woman, age 37, maybe 7 on toes, and I’m totally happy with that. My only fitness goals are to be strong enough to not have joint pain and to be able to do cardio for an hour a day to stave off my anxiety. No need to bother with push-ups.

But I am impressed with people who can do lots of them! Nice job, PPs!

You should. Push-ups are the most underrated exercise. They strengthen your back, core, and arms; will help prevent changes to posture as you age

I do all the exercises my PT tells me to. He says that push-ups are great for people who don’t have my joint issues and hyper flexibility like me. My core workouts are very gentle on my back but are plenty challenging.

Exactly!

Push-ups and running are great exercises and have the highest probability for injury.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:44 and I can do 2. I have never been good at pushups although I do lift heavy weights.

What push-up progression program do people recommend?

https://hundredpushups.com/

This is an excellent one. Someone here recommended it before. I love it and have had great results.

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Never tried to see how many push ups I can do without collapsing, but I regular do 3 sets of 40, or two sets of 40 with 20 clap push ups in the middle.

I can do over 50 push ups in 60 seconds so probably close to 100 if I really tried

I know I can hold a plank for 4 minutes or longer

Female, 33, combat veteran

[Anonymous]

46 - female, I can do 50 pushups - but I also swim a few times a week. Before swimming - I could do maybe 10?
I haven't tried to see how long I can plank, but I generally do two minutes a few times a day, a few days a week.

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Seven

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OP don't be discouraged if you can do as many as people posting here. These answers are highly skewed...

Based I what I see at gym classes in various places I've attended, the average middle aged woman who exercises regularly can do very few

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Woman, age 37, maybe 7 on toes, and I’m totally happy with that. My only fitness goals are to be strong enough to not have joint pain and to be able to do cardio for an hour a day to stave off my anxiety. No need to bother with push-ups.

But I am impressed with people who can do lots of them! Nice job, PPs!

You should. Push-ups are the most underrated exercise. They strengthen your back, core, and arms; will help prevent changes to posture as you age

I do all the exercises my PT tells me to. He says that push-ups are great for people who don’t have my joint issues and hyper flexibility like me. My core workouts are very gentle on my back but are plenty challenging.

Exactly!

Push-ups and running are great exercises and have the highest probability for injury.

Why would push-ups cause injury? Unless you have some prior shoulder issues from something else, push-ups are very safe and low impact.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Woman, age 37, maybe 7 on toes, and I’m totally happy with that. My only fitness goals are to be strong enough to not have joint pain and to be able to do cardio for an hour a day to stave off my anxiety. No need to bother with push-ups.

But I am impressed with people who can do lots of them! Nice job, PPs!

You should. Push-ups are the most underrated exercise. They strengthen your back, core, and arms; will help prevent changes to posture as you age

I do all the exercises my PT tells me to. He says that push-ups are great for people who don’t have my joint issues and hyper flexibility like me. My core workouts are very gentle on my back but are plenty challenging.

Exactly!

Push-ups and running are great exercises and have the highest probability for injury.

Ha yes I don’t run either! It does make me nervous about running away during the zombie apocalypse (I’m only 90% joking about that) but I’m otherwise happy not running or doing push-ups.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Woman, age 37, maybe 7 on toes, and I’m totally happy with that. My only fitness goals are to be strong enough to not have joint pain and to be able to do cardio for an hour a day to stave off my anxiety. No need to bother with push-ups.

But I am impressed with people who can do lots of them! Nice job, PPs!

You should. Push-ups are the most underrated exercise. They strengthen your back, core, and arms; will help prevent changes to posture as you age

I do all the exercises my PT tells me to. He says that push-ups are great for people who don’t have my joint issues and hyper flexibility like me. My core workouts are very gentle on my back but are plenty challenging.

Exactly!

Push-ups and running are great exercises and have the highest probability for injury.

Why would push-ups cause injury? Unless you have some prior shoulder issues from something else, push-ups are very safe and low impact.

They are actually very hard on my lower back. I could do all kinds of exercises to work up to doing more, but I would have to spend a lot of time and effort on that instead of exercises that will fulfill my fitness objectives more efficiently.

I can do flips with my kids at the trampoline park, do cardio for an hour a day, lift some free weights, and my vitals are excellent. I’m not missing out by not doing more than five or so push-ups. Or not running.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:44 and I can do 2. I have never been good at pushups although I do lift heavy weights.

What push-up progression program do people recommend?

I’m the 36 year old above you. The only way I got better was just add one each time I thought I could. So the first time I did 10, I started waiting for the time 10 felt easy enough to try for 11. Once I could do 20, I started doing them in sets of 8, trying to do 8-8 and then crank out enough to get me to 24. I didn’t start seriously working out until I was a little over 30, and started doing weight lifting around 31, so it has taken me years to get up to 48. You have to add them to every arm workout, and just keep doing them til you get a little better.

A lot of times the routines I do put pushups at the end of an arm strength training routine as a burnout. I guess they assume you can already do them, which I cannot. Where in an arm workout should I put them?

I’m that PP, I do them first as a warmup! Otherwise they’re too weak at the end of a heavy lift to rep out