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Ukevas

becky_rtw wrote: »

48 pressups - gargh - I can do one and then my wrists start to hurt and I have to stop, I can do 20 sit ups though...

One of you lot must have tips for making pressups easier actually...come on whats the secret to them??

me and you both becky, when i was in the army i could run and run all day long and do sit ups till the cows came home... but press ups and bar pulls :rotfl: not a chance in hell!!

i put it down to 6ft 6in frame and 17-18 stone to to move around :j. allthough i doubt thats your excuse :rotfl:

becky_rtw

JJ - 35 sit ups in a minute (Becky goes to lie down )

Ukevas - my excuse is weedy arms

I'm 5,6 and a size 8 - getting closer to a 6 all the time too - although I can climb well so my power to weight ratio cant be that bad!

Idiophreak

jjwhittle1981 wrote: »

The secret is just keep trying, when youve been doing the circuit training that we get to do its easy to get used to doing them. I can get around the 40 mark in a minute and 35 situps in a minute as well.

Yeah, practice makes perfect, really - if you add doing them to a daily routine, you'll find you start to be able to do them really quite quickly.

Can do about 15 at the mo, but could easily do 100 back in the day, just because I used to do them quite a lot for tae bo, judo etc.

Alias_Omega

Press-ups are easy,

I use to do 10 pressups as a warm up before working the arms on the machines, then 10 before each other machine. Then after the session do as many press-ups as you can until you can do it no more, usually about 3-4.

I find that if im struggling to do press-ups, after about 20 i go onto my knuckles which must use another part of the arms, as i can go for another 20. Another thing i do is open my legs, gives me more stability.

If you really want to push yourself, look at the wall in front of you, not look at the mat, keep the head up and you feel the pain in the back of your neck / back, but when you put the head down it becomes easy again..

RichOneday_2

I'm the same, with sit-ups I can build to 50 over a period of time but with press-ups 20 is a struggle and always have been!:o

Alias_Omega

Anyway, some time ago i said id post a picture of myself, well this is me in here..




Regards,

Alias

becky_rtw

Ooo are you the shiney one with the ponity nose??

RichOneday_2

becky_rtw wrote: »

Ooo are you the shiney one with the ponity nose??

LOL

I think the shiney one has a slightly faster PB than Alias!!!:p

Alias_Omega

i edited the picture twice, this was me when i was fat...

now about 8kg lighter..

jjwhittle1981

Id like to be included in the joke but stupid work computer wont allow me to see the picture NOT fair