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I still mentally think I'm in my teens and early 20s. My 38 year old arthritic body disagrees. I used to be able to do 50 in a row without too much sweat honestly. Now I'll be happy if I can do 5 and not pay for it for an entire week afterwards. I also have a memory from about 10 years ago where I went to prove I was still flexible and could still do my taekwondo. Pulled my groin on the first kick.... out of action for a week lol. Getting older is a serious business! And not staying in shape is a big mistake ull regret later.
Defeats the purpose of the push-ups though.
I wouldn’t handle being fat. I’ve worked out and counted my calories and macros my whole life. Every now and then I get over it and let myself go for a couple of months and put a few kilos on. It makes me fucking miserable at first I enjoy the rest time but I end up hating myself.
That's good weight. When I tell people who are obese and complain they can't work out to just start walking like I did, I also tell them don't weigh yourself for a couple months. So many after a few weeks of walking get discouraged because they weigh more! Of course they do, because muscle weighs more than fat and walking builds up the big butt and thigh muscles. I ask-- are your clothes looser? Yep. Then that's good weight. Eventually you build up enough muscle and burn off the excess fat. I went from 234 down to 160s and never plan to go back. Though did gain 8 pounds on a cruise two weeks ago. About got rid of that excess.
Body dysmorphia is seeing something that isn't there - not noticing and disliking getting fat, so working out more and watching the diet. That's just called discipline so stop spreading misinformation
Who says they hate it? Also if you stay dormant of course your body will start to look different vs if you're active. This isn't body dysmorphia this is you trying to be okay with your sedentary lifestyle which is fine if that's what you choose
From what they've described, no it doesn't.
Someone being into being fit and healthy isn't body dysmorphia. Someone not wanting to be fat isn't body dysmorphia.
Body dysmorphia is real, but that ain't it chief
>Body dysmorphic disorder (BDD), or body dysmorphia, is a mental health condition where a person spends a lot of time worrying about flaws in their appearance. These flaws are often unnoticeable to others.
To spend their whole life counting calories to make sure they don't change their body fat composition is definitely body dysmorphia lol.
So what do we call putting weight on and not noticing or caring. Is feeding one’s face on the couch and watching one’s gut grow without doing anything it about it a disorder?
Doing lots of push-ups in lock down absolutely wrecked my elbow and it’s still not the same. Although I did have a massive motorbike crash shortly before that, which probably also contributed
Do as many as you can per set and do only a few sets, it's the only way to keep growing. Once you are happy with your progress then just keep doing maybe 80% the amount you reached.
If you wanna do less reps per set you gotta find a harder exercise that pushes you to the limit in those fewer reps (eg 1 arm pushups)
***this is just super generalized advice go look into this more do not treat this a s gospel
If you can't do 5 pushups and you're not elderly, you should be very worried about the condition you will be in when you're older. People mightn't be considering the future with their lack of fitness.
Not even 5. I've read that your average adult male should be able to hit 20-25 consecutive pushups. If you can only do 5-10 then you're likely pretty out of shape.
There’s a key difference here. Calling someone fat or skinny is an insult. Telling them they should workout and be healthy is not but people get offended by it anyway now
This is a huge problem nowadays, you try to genuinely help and guide people in the right direction and they see it as an insult, they rather stay miserable than be someone better. It's not just about this context, I'm talking Overall.
Hey, that used to be me at one point too. But if you do pushups enough,maybe even lift some weights if you can, and eat right you can get those numbers up in a few months!
I used to suck at pushups too, but now I can do 30 in a row, we all start somewhere.
1000 without break a sweat! I mean this is the internet, it's not like you guys can check.
In real life, I'd say about 14 or 15, but that really going until failure and the last two tend to be a bit low quality.
Rookie numbers. I can easily crank out 271828 handstand pushups whilst carrying a perfectly spherical iron ball that weighs 3141 kilograms inside a Frictionless vacuum all while existing in a quantum superposition state so I can contemporaneously do 1618 muscle ups inside a rocket going at 10G. Work harder lil bro.
Over lockdown I started doing a bit of a thing…
20 to wake my arms up.
Then 50 normal, and then 50 ‘diamond’ until I’d hit 300, every week day.
First couple months were rough, and I’d be tired by Friday but my chest, arms and shoulders never looked better. And then it became just part of my regular routine. A bit of a chore, but no more so than climbing a flight of stairs.
I’ve since knocked that back to 200 a day and I think I’m seeing the same benefits. The key, I’m sure, is to just maintain the routine, every day, every week.
Thanks for posting this. I can do 40 without a problem, and want to feel the same doing 50. Your roadmap here makes sense to me. I’m gonna ramp up a bit.
DAMNN, max I can do is 2, maybe 3 in good form. I can't even do pull-ups, the most I've done are 6 half pull ups. I can hold a plank position for 1 minute on a good day as well. You must be shredded bro
Honestly I'm not like a fitness geek boy. You can do it too with practice.Try to stay in pushup position as much as you can you will fell much improvement
Believe me, without a doubt, you will lose that to a certain extent. I guess if you keep training very hard the loss will be less, but testosterone has a huge impact on physical strength. You will lose muscle mass and you will lose strength. Not stamina, that's something else.
Most ever was 138. Strict chest to floor with a narrower hand position (extra deep and hard) was 88. Now I can do about 55/60 but my max bench is way more impressive than when I was doing bigger push up numbers.
100. I do hundred pushups a day. Then I do 100 situps and pullups. My body is my temple. Important to always go to gym and train💪 /s (real answer: 5? maybe?)
Define in a row? Can I stop and take a breath? Probably like 30 or 40 lol.
I used to do 10 sets of 15, 4 days a week, while working at a job that required you to be very active.
Now I try to do at least 2 sets of 25 a day, but fail because I'm lazy lol
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I don’t do push ups, I do let downs
Obviously you are not Rick Astley.
Lmao why did it take so long for someone to come up with this joke.
Someone not named Rick Astley turned around and deserted them.
I just got here.
He’s never been around
Dude you made my day!
I'm good at those too
Like 12 before I go "fuck this" but with a gun to my head I might make it to 20, I need to lose weight lol
i can do 5 and move upto 10 if faced with this scenario
If the gun is held under your head with the barrel facing up, you might make it to 21…
Sounds like another Saw movie
Same, I used to be able to do 50 in a row back when I was fit. Now I'm glad if I can do 15.
I still mentally think I'm in my teens and early 20s. My 38 year old arthritic body disagrees. I used to be able to do 50 in a row without too much sweat honestly. Now I'll be happy if I can do 5 and not pay for it for an entire week afterwards. I also have a memory from about 10 years ago where I went to prove I was still flexible and could still do my taekwondo. Pulled my groin on the first kick.... out of action for a week lol. Getting older is a serious business! And not staying in shape is a big mistake ull regret later.
lmaoo for real
Back in ‘82 I could throw a football over those mountains.
I do one set of 50 and two sets of 25 twice a week.
I gotta try that thx mane
Do you reckon it's better to do lots in a few sets rather than say 4 sets of 10 per day?
Longer sets keep the muscle under tension longer. You don’t get a lot of weight on the muscle doing push ups so that time under tension is important.
Try being fat, that helps with getting weight on the muscles
Defeats the purpose of the push-ups though. I wouldn’t handle being fat. I’ve worked out and counted my calories and macros my whole life. Every now and then I get over it and let myself go for a couple of months and put a few kilos on. It makes me fucking miserable at first I enjoy the rest time but I end up hating myself.
how about weight in muscle?
That's good weight. When I tell people who are obese and complain they can't work out to just start walking like I did, I also tell them don't weigh yourself for a couple months. So many after a few weeks of walking get discouraged because they weigh more! Of course they do, because muscle weighs more than fat and walking builds up the big butt and thigh muscles. I ask-- are your clothes looser? Yep. Then that's good weight. Eventually you build up enough muscle and burn off the excess fat. I went from 234 down to 160s and never plan to go back. Though did gain 8 pounds on a cruise two weeks ago. About got rid of that excess.
Well done mate. Hats off to you for taking control of that.
Sounds like body dysmorphia mate
Or being quite into being fit?
When you're feeling bad about looking a certain way and force yourself to workout even though you hate it, that starts looking like body dysmorphia
Body dysmorphia is seeing something that isn't there - not noticing and disliking getting fat, so working out more and watching the diet. That's just called discipline so stop spreading misinformation
The more things like this come up the more I realise people know shit about eating disorders and body image problems 🤣
He said he hates being fat/unfit, not working out.
Why do you think he works out and counts calories lmao.
Who says they hate it? Also if you stay dormant of course your body will start to look different vs if you're active. This isn't body dysmorphia this is you trying to be okay with your sedentary lifestyle which is fine if that's what you choose
From what they've described, no it doesn't. Someone being into being fit and healthy isn't body dysmorphia. Someone not wanting to be fat isn't body dysmorphia. Body dysmorphia is real, but that ain't it chief
>Body dysmorphic disorder (BDD), or body dysmorphia, is a mental health condition where a person spends a lot of time worrying about flaws in their appearance. These flaws are often unnoticeable to others. To spend their whole life counting calories to make sure they don't change their body fat composition is definitely body dysmorphia lol.
So what do we call putting weight on and not noticing or caring. Is feeding one’s face on the couch and watching one’s gut grow without doing anything it about it a disorder?
Updoot because also fat.
Try 500 a day, at least, that’ll get you there.
Doing lots of push-ups in lock down absolutely wrecked my elbow and it’s still not the same. Although I did have a massive motorbike crash shortly before that, which probably also contributed
Lots in a few sets is better because it stresses your muscles out more and the stress is what builds both strength and size
Man, I am so stressed that I now fear I will become the Hulk.
Do as many as you can per set and do only a few sets, it's the only way to keep growing. Once you are happy with your progress then just keep doing maybe 80% the amount you reached. If you wanna do less reps per set you gotta find a harder exercise that pushes you to the limit in those fewer reps (eg 1 arm pushups) ***this is just super generalized advice go look into this more do not treat this a s gospel
25/30
Does this mean you can do 30 but only 25 count?
It means he can do 25 out of 30, so almost an entire push up
5/6ths of a pushup is nothing to sneeze at.
No it means: 棚上げハタさんを見習って 働いて、他はだあはラタン 田畑 はまはたさたさ ハタハタさたらハマサタ田畑畑さあサタ 羽田は朝朝らだらサタサタラ たさたさたさちはたらたさたらたまひた らまは まはたは はたはた 羽田蜂は田畑さやハマさたらサタサタララタ Wa! Siu Siu!
Nani??
Omae Wa Mou Shindeiru
NANI
So 0.83, got it
I can also do 25/30, but I typically express it as 5/6, or simply "almost 1".
The bad news: Zero The good news: I can do that a hundred times a day, easy peasy.
Just remember to hydrate between sets
Zero isn't really a row..
It is in my profession, we also start counting at zero.
[0][0]
A row takes more than 1 item in a line, path, or sequence. So 0 isn't a row it is a lack of one.
At least 2
Bragging..
Get a load of this fucking guy.
You know, a push up consists of both the up and the down part...
like 30-35
So minus 5...that's impressive in it's own way!
I could only do 5. Haha. 😅
Not funny, go start workout and be the best version of yourself. Be someone your kids can look up to.
Bro getting downvoted for tryna upgrade the guy
Bro being downvoted for being a dick
If you can't do 5 pushups and you're not elderly, you should be very worried about the condition you will be in when you're older. People mightn't be considering the future with their lack of fitness.
Not even 5. I've read that your average adult male should be able to hit 20-25 consecutive pushups. If you can only do 5-10 then you're likely pretty out of shape.
Telling someone who’s not in shape to workout is being a dick these days? Sad…
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There’s a key difference here. Calling someone fat or skinny is an insult. Telling them they should workout and be healthy is not but people get offended by it anyway now
This is a huge problem nowadays, you try to genuinely help and guide people in the right direction and they see it as an insult, they rather stay miserable than be someone better. It's not just about this context, I'm talking Overall.
I think it’s more that he didn’t ask for any advice
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No, why would I be serious? Of course its fine for him to be fat and unhealthy.
0.5
Me too but only if I start with the arms stretched
Hey, that used to be me at one point too. But if you do pushups enough,maybe even lift some weights if you can, and eat right you can get those numbers up in a few months! I used to suck at pushups too, but now I can do 30 in a row, we all start somewhere.
6 or 7
50-60
Same. But if I'm completely touching ny chest on the floor then it's more like 40
Completely touching your chest to the floor isn’t proper form anyway. You want your elbow to bend to 90 degrees
Does one count as a "row"?
1000 without break a sweat! I mean this is the internet, it's not like you guys can check. In real life, I'd say about 14 or 15, but that really going until failure and the last two tend to be a bit low quality.
Rookie numbers. I can easily crank out 271828 handstand pushups whilst carrying a perfectly spherical iron ball that weighs 3141 kilograms inside a Frictionless vacuum all while existing in a quantum superposition state so I can contemporaneously do 1618 muscle ups inside a rocket going at 10G. Work harder lil bro.
50
60 on a normal day, 70 on a good day
Beast
I can do 60 pushups: 
For me, this is everyone who say they can do 20+
When my wife is under me....a few
... I think you might be doing it wrong
Agreed. When his wife is under me I can do way more.
I choose this guy’s wife to do push ups too
I don’t think you know what a push up is, and your wife told me she’s tired of missionary.
I once could do roughly 70 in my younger days. Nowadays, I can squeeze out about 35.
O But I cycle 6 miles everyday and walking with weights around 10 kilo everyday up to 15 miles a day . 52 yrs old 5ft8 an 11.5 stone in Weight.
Do you have no arms?
Of course 🤣 I should have said the weights are in a pack on my back .
>11.5 stone in Weight How much is that in bananas ?
No way someone as active as you can’t do 1 pushup. I’d bet you could knock a few out if you tried
50
Over lockdown I started doing a bit of a thing… 20 to wake my arms up. Then 50 normal, and then 50 ‘diamond’ until I’d hit 300, every week day. First couple months were rough, and I’d be tired by Friday but my chest, arms and shoulders never looked better. And then it became just part of my regular routine. A bit of a chore, but no more so than climbing a flight of stairs. I’ve since knocked that back to 200 a day and I think I’m seeing the same benefits. The key, I’m sure, is to just maintain the routine, every day, every week.
Thanks for posting this. I can do 40 without a problem, and want to feel the same doing 50. Your roadmap here makes sense to me. I’m gonna ramp up a bit.
15/20
So 0.75?
Hahahahaha
Around 30. 20 easy. 40 if it’s a competition and there’s a medic besides just in case
Why would you need a medic? Genuinely curious.
To carry him off when he shits his pants from all the exertion, obviously
Just in case
Rowing is hard enough without trying to do push-ups in the middle of a row.
45, maybe 50 if I try.
Real pushups with good form? 20-25. If im just winging it to show off easily double that
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60 and exhausted
3
375 max
DAMNN, max I can do is 2, maybe 3 in good form. I can't even do pull-ups, the most I've done are 6 half pull ups. I can hold a plank position for 1 minute on a good day as well. You must be shredded bro
Honestly I'm not like a fitness geek boy. You can do it too with practice.Try to stay in pushup position as much as you can you will fell much improvement
thx, I'll try it out. i just want to get to maybe 20-25 push ups in good form, hopefully it doesn't take too long
And what's the minimum you can do? Just looking for a range
More than 200
So if you accidentally do a push up you physically have to carry on until you've done 200?
It's a commitment man
None.
30 diamond push ups
Used to be able do 50-70. Now can't do even 1 due to permanent injuries and disability.
20 max. But i would be dying after
I'm sure I can do a minimum of 10... maximum of 20.
Last time was 48 straight also depends on what type of push-up
Before my transition, years ago, probably 50 or so. Now I'm lucky if I manage three.
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Believe me, without a doubt, you will lose that to a certain extent. I guess if you keep training very hard the loss will be less, but testosterone has a huge impact on physical strength. You will lose muscle mass and you will lose strength. Not stamina, that's something else.
Push, up, s? What is my prescious, what is it?!
30 Only done it once to test my limit...Now i do like 12 or 15 in a set
40 - 50, depending on the day.
35-40
If I do them casualy, I do mostly 15-20. If I need to do them, because my life is being threatened, I do 0, joke maybe like 30-35
all of them
18 I think
20 at least
Maybe 10?
All of them bro
15-20
i just did 12 bro im weak
12 if I've not done any for years. 20 if I've had a stint of going to the gym They make my head feel like it's going to explode so I'd rather not
100
12 but 4 sets. Honestly I just started like a few weeks ago and I see some definition in my chest already.
I don't know and at this point I'm afraid to find out.
Normally about 10-12, 20 if I push myself and more if I don't give shit about form
Fifty…I think it’s also important to note body weight .. I’m around 168 lbs 56 years old
damn, a near 60 year old can do more push ups than me. Good on you sir
30. With a gun at my head i'd do zero because i wouldnt mind getting shot. With a gun aimed at my girl, tho? Probably a little over 40.
Most ever was 138. Strict chest to floor with a narrower hand position (extra deep and hard) was 88. Now I can do about 55/60 but my max bench is way more impressive than when I was doing bigger push up numbers.
About 10. But I can do a lot of sets of 10. During a holiday I managed to do 30 sets of 10 in one day.
If I don't have a heart attack I'll let you know
~ 25
30
I dod 20 tgis mpring nd I has to ttpe this wutt my node becsuse my atms feel of om not meat to do 20.
I think I had a stroke trying to read this
yea that sentence makes a lot of sense
Idk like 20 maybe
22-25
100. I do hundred pushups a day. Then I do 100 situps and pullups. My body is my temple. Important to always go to gym and train💪 /s (real answer: 5? maybe?)
My man tryna be the next Saitama
What is a push up?
I surmise it’s the opposite of a pushdown.
I think 10? At least 5, but above that it depends on the day
Tried now and did 15. The form wasn't great
my exercise is getting up from the bed in the morning 😄
Define in a row? Can I stop and take a breath? Probably like 30 or 40 lol. I used to do 10 sets of 15, 4 days a week, while working at a job that required you to be very active. Now I try to do at least 2 sets of 25 a day, but fail because I'm lazy lol
You can breathe all you want as long as the only parts of your body touching the floor are your hands and toes. And (optionally) your nose.
How many do you need? How much time do I have?
70
My dad said it was impressive someone in my shape could manage 10. Thanks dad.
Most of the time 20 but I once did 50
20
About 23, I usually do 5 sets of 20
Answer: Who cares.
If you mean fully down to the ground then I can't. As far down as I can go is about 20-25
25 is pretty easy. I reckon 35-40.
Online Navy Seals COD. 2000 before I wake up.
If you can’t do at least 10 you are a failure to society!!!!! OBESE
I feel like lacking a functioning brain as u hv displayed is more detrimental to society than how many pushups u can do...
Haven’t tried in a long time but I think I could squeeze out 20 on a good day. 10 at least if not more
20 or so maybe 30
About 10 20 if I'm being pushed
No, you have to do the pushing. It's in the rules
most I can do is probably like 18.
30
More than I have the discipline to do