Quote from: mitt on November 21, 2008, 06:06:33 AM
Done.  2/2 and feeling good.

mitt

i went 3/4 so far...
sabotaged myself last night with pizza & beer and no workout 

Hey, your body needs pizza and  too. When I quit smoking and drinking (for a while), I got sick way more often than I had before. Beer a day (at least) keeps the doc away.

Quote from: mitt on November 21, 2008, 06:06:33 AM
Done.  2/2 and feeling good.

mitt

Quote from: Statler on November 21, 2008, 06:07:15 AM
push up bars worth getting?   I've been cheating and using a set of 45 lb dumbells as push up bars.    I guess real ones would give me a little more range.

I've used them for a long time.  Dumbells will work though too.  You can always stack them on books on either side and get a deeper stretch.  I was looking at those travel "Perfect Push-up" bars too.    Anywone use those??

Quote from: IZ on November 21, 2008, 02:13:04 PM
I've used them for a long time.  Dumbells will work though too.  You can always stack them on books on either side and get a deeper stretch.  I was looking at those travel "Perfect Push-up" bars too.    Anywone use those??

Yup.  They are okay.  Not quite as comfy on the hands as the non-travel version, but they still do the job.  I notice a much more chest-centric push-up with them than standard bars.  But I am a mutant, so your results may vary. 

Quote from: Statler on November 21, 2008, 06:07:15 AM
I've been cheating and using a set of 45 lb dumbells as push up bars.    I guess real ones would give me a little more range.

Why is that cheating? The more you can do with less sounds good to me....

3/3 - tonight was swimming 

mitt

Great. Now you fockers are raising the bar on me. Sheesh.


I gotta get to work.

Quote from: Statler on November 21, 2008, 06:07:15 AM
push up bars worth getting?   I've been cheating and using a set of 45 lb dumbells as push up bars.    I guess real ones would give me a little more range.

If you wanna up it a notch, in the up position of every pushup, pull one of the dumbells up to your shoulder.  Alternate arms on each rep.

Quote from: Rameses on November 21, 2008, 10:38:51 PM


If you wanna up it a notch, in the up position of every pushup, pull one of the dumbells up to your shoulder.  Alternate arms on each rep.

omg you psycho 

In crew back in high school we were forever trying to up each other. First it was who could do more pushups......then more pushups on gravel.


This became more pushups on the knuckles on gravel.


Then....more clapper push ups on your knuckles on the gravel.


Finally this escalated to clappers behind the back landing on your knuckles on gravel.


Teenage boys are terribly competitive.

Quote from: somebastid on November 22, 2008, 10:02:51 AM
Finally this escalated to clappers behind the back landing on your knuckles.

I'm going to try it right now!! 

OK..I just did and I think the only way one could do them is if they were a teenage boy with absolutely no lat muscles!!   


I worked up to 1200/day.  Bruce Lee and his push-ups always inspired me, along with these INSANE numbers:


WORLD RECORDS
non-stop: 10,507; Minoru Yoshida (JAP), Oct 1980 DETAILS
one year: 1,500,230; Paddy Doyle (GBR), Oct 1988 - Oct 1989
24 hours: 46,001; Charles Servizio (USA), 24/25 April 1993 at Hesperia
(new record claim, not yet verified: Jeffrey Warrick (USA), 46300)
1 hour: 3,877; Bijender Singh (IND), 20 Sept 1988 DETAILS AND NATIONAL RECORDS

30 minutes: 2,354; Rolf Heck (GER), 13 Nov 2000
10 minutes (women): 426; Renata Hamplová (TCH), Rekord-Klub SAXONIA Record Festival in Schwedt, 2 Sept 1995
5 minutes: 441; Giuseppe Cusano (GBR), Loftus Road Soccer Stadium at the Fulham v. Portsmouth game on 24 Nov 2003
3 minutes (women): 190; Renata Hamplová (TCH), Record Festival Pelhrimov 1995
one minute: Record claims up to 199 in one minute have been made. We do, however, not continue to publish these record claims, because it became impossible to judge about the correctness of the exercises at this speed.
one-armed, one week (168 hours): 16,723; Paddy Doyle (GBR), Feb 1996 in Birmingham
one-armed, 5 hours: 8,794; Paddy Doyle (GBR), 12 Feb 1996 in Birmingham
one-armed, 1 hour: 2521; Paddy Doyle (GBR), 12 Feb 1990 in Birmingham
one-armed, 30 minutes: 1382; Doug Pruden (CAN), 30 July 2003 at the Body Quest Health Club Edmonton
one-armed, 10 minutes: 546; Doug Pruden (CAN), 30 July 2003 at the Body Quest Health Club Edmonton
one-armed, on back of hands, one hour: 677; Doug Pruden (CAN) at the Body Quest Health Club Edmonton, 9 Nov 2005
on fists: 5557 (in 3:02:30 hours), Doug Pruden (CAN), 9 July 2004, Body Quest Health Club Edmonton
1000 pushups on fists: 18:13 minutes, Doug Pruden (CAN), 9 July 2003 at the Body Quest Health Club Edmonton
on back of hands, 15 minutes: 627; Paddy Doyle (GBR), 8 November 2007, Stamina's Boxing Self Defence Gym, Erdington, Birmingham RECORD HISTORY
on back of hands, 30 minutes: 1386; Paddy Doyle (GBR), 8 November 2007, Stamina's Boxing Self Defence Gym, Erdington, Birmingham RECORD HISTORY
on back of hands, 1 hour: 1940; Paddy Doyle (GBR), 8 November 2007, Stamina's Boxing Self Defence Gym, Erdington, Birmingham RECORD HISTORY
finger-tips, 5 hours: 8,200; Terry Cole (GBR), 11 May 1996 in Walthamstow
one finger: 124 Paul Lynch (GBR), 21 April 1992 in London


http://www.recordholders.org/en/list/pushups.html




Thanks bastid! 
New inspiration..

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3x9FBChYMCo 

At least 10 by Christmas!!

Quote from: IZ on November 22, 2008, 11:22:17 AM
I'm going to try it right now!! 

OK..I just did and I think the only way one could do them is if they were a teenage boy with absolutely no lat muscles!!   



Thanks bastid! 
New inspiration..



At least 10 by Christmas!!

Eh....we had no sense of self preservation. Often we'd do them until we got too tired...then keep going, thus landing on our faces, in the gravel. Dumb.


We also ran half marathos occasionally, and at one point, did 1,000 squats, straight. Sick sport.

We took 1st, second, and third in essentially every race. 

Quote from: somebastid on November 22, 2008, 12:08:53 PM
Eh....we had no sense of self preservation. Often we'd do them until we got too tired...then keep going, thus landing on our faces, in the gravel. Dumb.

I believe this statement leads us full circle as to why you're in pain now later in life!!   

Quote from: IZ on November 22, 2008, 12:31:33 PM
I believe this statement leads us full circle as to why you're in pain now later in life!!   

it's cold enough here to sting the lungs while running outside.  I think it's inside workout until spring except for shoveling snow and playing with A outside.