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[quote=Anonymous]You can try the pyramid (?, might not be the right term) system with push ups.

ie you first start out by doing one rep.  rest.  then two reps.  rest. three reps.

Then maybe stop at 8 reps and then go back down.  So it would be like 1-2-3-4-5-6-5-4-3-2-1 .

Then as you get stronger try to build up the higher number of reps.

Then you can vary the pushups as well.  Where the closer your hands are in together, it works your triceps more.  The further out they are, I think it's chest more?

Also try to mix in some rows to workout your back.  For example if you don't belong to a gym, you can find a place with a low vertical bar (I've seen some potential ones at area playgrounds or hand rails next to sidewalks) to hang from with your feet forward, you can pull up on it and is kind of a similar motion to a row.  I think this might describe it better:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Supine_row

Try looking up inverted row as well, which might be the same thing.

btw I don't think 8 push ups are that bad.  I remember for the longest time being impressed by someone I went to military school with who passed the physical fitness test on a broken arm and thought she did like 40 push ups on a broken arm.  Several years later when reminiscing about those days she told me she actually did less than 20.  Here's the Army score card for the physical fitness test:
http://armypubs.army.mil/eforms/pdf/A705.PDF

I used to try to maintain the standards after getting out and slowly kept on going downhill and am at the point now that I'm just happy to be in semishape.

But you can use this as a goal to shoot for.

Page 3 shows the score card for pushups.  The top row shows the columns for age group and gender.  Then towards the left shows the number of reps.  And the column under the gender shows your score.

So if you're a 20 year old female that does 8 reps, that's 41 points/percent.  It's been a while but I think you need 50% to graduate from basic and 60% from school.

But you're not far off from the 13 reps needed to pass basic!  And remember those people live the life of working out and training every day. (but to give them credit they're also probably fatigued and at the point of exhaustion and may do even better if they don't have to train every day but that's besides the point, just didn't want to take anything away from them)[/quote]

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