My thighs and ass are in immaculate shape! No worries there. Like I said previously.. Im working on upper body strength, and wearing smaller t-shirts.
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How many push-ups can you do?
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Going as fast as possible, around 90 in a minute, doing them slowly with a full range of motion i can do around around 45 (untimed)!
Max i can do taking brakes of a minute or two between series is around 150 200 depending if im hurting from training or if im pretty fresh!
Max i can do taking brakes of a minute or two between series is around 150 200 depending if im hurting from training or if im pretty fresh!
I've got some upper arm shoulder inflammation, so I don't know how well I'd do these days...I'm gonna see if I can touch 50 like jmatt!
EDIT: Oh, Fitzgerald got 50; jmatt got 72. Well....I'm gonna see if I can touch 70 like jmatt!
Even when I was in my best shape, I've never had great upper body strength. Always been powerful in the legs and core, but never could bench more than an plate and two 10's on each side
EDIT: Oh, Fitzgerald got 50; jmatt got 72. Well....I'm gonna see if I can touch 70 like jmatt!
Even when I was in my best shape, I've never had great upper body strength. Always been powerful in the legs and core, but never could bench more than an plate and two 10's on each side
I'm actually the same. Most of my strength is located in my legs and core (largely thanks to all the soccer I played growing up!).
Just out curiosity, how tall are you and how much do you weigh? I'm under the impression that we're around the same size for some reason.
Sounds fun! I'm gonna give those a try right now!
Dont arch your back or you will hurt yourself, keep it straight and use a wall in case things go wrong!
Ha, yeah I just figured that out the hard way
I got 6 but I'm pretty sure my form was really bad, so I'm gonna youtube some vids on how to do them properly.
I'm just built weirdly...I have a high butt and tree trunk thighs
I'm 5'7", 180lbs right now. I graduated HS at 139, got to 175 working out for football, got to 190 in marital laziness, back down to 180 but still a little pudgy. I get the impression that you're about my weight, but stretched out over another 5" or so lol
Sounds like me also.. I'm genetically disproportionate (thighs so big they won't fit into a pair of Levi's 501, no upper body to speak of) and spent too many years running track.
I'm 6'1", 165lbs.
The biggest I've ever been was before my freshman year of high school when I was lifting 4x a week for bulk - including maxing out my bench around 250 lbs.
After a four months of that I ballooned all the way up to 175lbs.
Ha, yeah I just figured that out the hard way
I got 6 but I'm pretty sure my form was really bad, so I'm gonna youtube some vids on how to do them properly.
IMO the best way is to do them against a wall, wear sox so there isnt to much friction (tiled wall helps to i do them in my bathroom) put your hands close to the wall (around 20cm) and go to a handstand, try to be as close to the wall as possible so your back is straight but without leaning on it heavily, keep your hand shoulder width apart, go down until your nose touches the floor, go back up!
done
Most athletes will will tell you that the lower body is where real, useful strength comes from. You can always tell the wannabes in the gym cause they spend hours bench pressing and have well developed chests with teeny tiny stick legs.
I don't particularly like pushups. Doing them for reps is much more an exercise in endurance as opposed to strength. That said the last time I did them I was doing sets of 25.
I hear you on the tree trunk thighs. Those seem to run in my family. My legs are surprisingly very strong for some of my size - 5'8'' at 165lbs
Actually, this is the heaviest I've ever been. I graduated high school at 145lbs and have slowly been putting on weight ever since then (minus a few months freshmen year where I dropped down to 138lbs).
That's crazy. There seems to be a number of guys on the forum (check over in the weightlifting thread) that are at or above 6' but weigh close to what I weigh. I always expected most guys at that height to weigh closer to 180lbs or so, depending on their lifestyle.
Swimmers and water polo bodies are different. They have mostly upper body strength. Water polo players tend to have better lower body strength than swimmers but still tend to look the way you described. It really depends on what kind of athlete you are.
If you ask people to guess my weight - they always guess in the 180-190 region.
I haven't weighed over 170lbs since I graduated from high school.
...and I can't gain weight, no matter what I eat. The only way I gain weight is lifting - and if I do it religiously I can put on about 10 lbs.
I hear you on the tree trunk thighs. Those seem to run in my family. My legs are surprisingly very strong for some of my size - 5'8'' at 165lbs
Actually, this is the heaviest I've ever been. I graduated high school at 145lbs and have slowly been putting on weight ever since then (minus a few months freshmen year where I dropped down to 138lbs).
Wow, so we are about the same size. Well, height anyway. Cool man - we can both push over carlos, Matticus or aborg with an index finger. Short guys rule
Apologies and point taken. I was at different times a shotputter, Olympic weightlifter and football player and in those sports - really most terrestrial sports I guess - leg strength is more important.
