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#171
09-15-2005, 09:27 AM
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Re: Week 12 and week 13 are over
Yeah, the obsession with push-ups maybe went a little too far anyway. There are many other things you can do; the important thing is that you commit to doing something that's hard.
I got a new adjustable kettlebell myself, that goes up to 70 lbs(two kilos), and am changing my work-out for a while to play with it in different style squats and presses, and am also doing bent-over rows with it. I really love the thing. I cycle in and out of concentrating on squats and on deadlifts, and now I'm doing more deadlifts for a while. I'm sure my ability to do push-ups will go down for a bit, but overall I'm hitting some new angles and it should help the push-up total too, eventually. Laying off the deadlifts for a while to concentrate on pistols, my body rebuilt itself and now I can fairly easily deadlift the two 200 lb. stretchbands that were extremely hard for me when I was hot and heavy into deadlifting. Change every so often is good. Keep it up Stuey! Don't make it push-ups or nothing. Make it always something, and it doesn't have to be push-ups. The important thing is to have a tough goal and not stop working toward it, not keep the same goal forever. There's nothing inherently more righteous about push-ups than anything else. It's having the balls to keep working at hard physical goals that's righteous. If you get sick of push-ups, keep plugging, just do it on something else. 
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#172
10-28-2005, 07:30 AM
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Re: Week 12 and week 13 are over
Where are you on this push-up thing, Stuey?
How are the kettlebells going, Blarg? Still like them?
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#174
10-28-2005, 02:44 PM
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Re: Week 12 and week 13 are over
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Where are you on this push-up thing, Stuey? How are the kettlebells going, Blarg? Still like them? [/ QUOTE ] Truth is I pretty much quit when I stopped posting in this thread. I got dumb excuses for the reasons and I'm not proud of it at all. The reason I started this was I knew I had to stop going to the gym as work got really busy and I knew I had 3 or 4 months of hell coming. I have not had a day off work in over 4 months. Good thing I don't work hard! lol Anyways dumb excuses as I could have done the pushups. Pretty much I'm burned out on pushup and at work. My busy season is pretty much over though so no more excuses to use. It really is a lame reason as I normally just get up earlier and go to the gym when I have to work. It was more of a mental thing I kind of gave myself permission to be lazy. [img]/images/graemlins/frown.gif[/img] I hate the truth. I did maintain my cardio though as I enjoy that more. I found as I increased the pushup reps I really started to dread doing them. When I get near 75 it really becomes more about how much pain I feel like inflicting on myself that day! I think I went about it wrong as Blarg tried to tell me several times. I'm going to try it again. This time I think I will force myself to mix in more variety and only do high reps maybe once a week. It is silly as I also started this to try and learn the proper training approach to reach this type of high rep goal and I ended up training the same way I always do. Balls to the wall till I either get hurt, over train, or plateau and quit out of frustration. I will try again at least now I'm well rested. [img]/images/graemlins/smile.gif[/img] I need to be able to do at least 100 someday! Thx for the bump jake.
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#177
10-28-2005, 03:41 PM
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Re: Pump you Up (Pushups)
I can do 100+ if it means I get into Dom's movies.
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