press up help

zsha

Hi, can any of help me with press ups. I literally cannot do them! I have tried plenty, I can go down but cannot push myself back up. I feel I have no power in my arms to push back up, is there anything I can do to help this. Anything. I can do to strengthen My arms?

power pants

tricep exercises

ling-zing

try them from your knees,work on your plank too if your unstable at the top of the push up

arse..biscuits

zsha wrote: »

Hi, can any of help me with press ups. I literally cannot do them! I have tried plenty, I can go down but cannot push myself back up. I feel I have no power in my arms to push back up, is there anything I can do to help this. Anything. I can do to strengthen My arms?

Start doing them with your hands on a table. When you get good at them, use something lower down like the front of a couch. Keep going lower until you're on flat surface.

LuckyLloyd

Yeah:

Wall Pushups -> Box Pushups -> Push Ups

Don't worry, keep working and you'll get there.

nice_guy80

Keep going...

decline push ups, hand release push ups, med ball push ups, diamond press ups, clap pushups and on, and on

Slydice

Sounds like you're going to want to build the muscles you need.

- Get down again.
- Push as much as you can for as long as you can.
- Rest 10 minutes.
- Try again and then Rest another 10 minutes.
- Try again.

Try that once a day for a while. Try to get some protein each day (eggs/meat/chicken/fish/etc). Get 8 hours sleep each night.

It won't happen overnight, muscles don't tend to work that way. Try it for 2 to 3 weeks. Hopefully you'll notice an improvement.

zsha

Thanks everybody for the info. I will def try the table and work down, good idea. Yeah I think I really need to build up muscle as I literally have no power in my upper arms at all. I wouldn't mind but I work in a physical job that would involve lifting, dragging, pulling and pushing all the time, you'd think Id have muscles there :rolleyes:
But I'm def going to try all that's suggested

Can I just ask though, what are all of these
decline push ups, hand release push ups, med ball push ups, diamond press ups, clap pushups and on, and on

Sorry new to all this, can hold myself for the plank alright but just no strength in my upper arm to control myself!
Thanks

arse..biscuits

zsha wrote: »

Thanks everybody for the info. I will def try the table and work down, good idea. Yeah I think I really need to build up muscle as I literally have no power in my upper arms at all. I wouldn't mind but I work in a physical job that would involve lifting, dragging, pulling and pushing all the time, you'd think Id have muscles there :rolleyes:
But I'm def going to try all that's suggested

Can I just ask though, what are all of these
decline push ups, hand release push ups, med ball push ups, diamond press ups, clap pushups and on, and on

Sorry new to all this, can hold myself for the plank alright but just no strength in my upper arm to control myself!
Thanks

They are all advanced versions which you should just ignore for now. Just work on the easy ones, aim to use a lower support each week.

zsha

Will do starting tomorrow 😉 thanks

ling-zing

http://www.sistertosister.org/myhearthealth/2013/03/push-progression-go-0-20-real-push-ups

zsha

That's brill the writing on the pictures is v blurry, but ill look it up and start that today, looks exactly what I need, thanks

Alf Veedersane

arse..biscuits wrote: »

They are all advanced versions which you should just ignore for now. Just work on the easy ones, aim to use a lower support each week.

This should help to illustrate the kind of progression

zsha

That is just brilliant, thanks all for your help and advice

zsha

How many times do you need to do each of the reps, how do you know when you're ready to move onto the next?

ling-zing

try a five week progression, using each week at one exercise using as many sets to get the reps,

so on the 1st week you could do 10,10,10,10,10 for 50 reps 3-4 times a week

2nd week 8,8,8,8,8,5,5 for 50 reps 3-4 times a week

and so on

when it becomes easy at the end of each week you'll know when to move onto the next exercise,no need to rush it either,so you could do week 3 for 2 weeks as an example

Alf Veedersane

On the link I posted it gave reps to aim for. If you get the 50 against the wall, try again the next time standing further from the wall until you can do 50. And further again the next time (unless that puts you too far out).

Then onto table push ups and I think they're 50 as well.

zsha

Ahh brill thanks v much. Did the wall reps today and did the 50 now did it handy enough but by the time I got to 40 I could feel my arms starting to burn but stayed going through it.
Thanks for your advice I really appreciate it

El_Duderino 09

Hey lads correct me if I'm wrong but should press-ups use chest and shoulders as well as arms?

Might sound silly but maybe try to ensure you engage your pecks and shoulders

ling-zing

yeah it should mostly be chest,shoulder,tricep

with the correct hand position these muscles should just fire automatically,you see so many people with flared out arms, i like my push ups elbows tucked in and nice and tight

arse..biscuits

zsha wrote: »

How many times do you need to do each of the reps, how do you know when you're ready to move onto the next?

Aim for about 4 sets of 10. When you can do that, move on to a harder one.
If you can't do that, don't go harder, just do what you can and record how many you did, try to beat it next day.

that wall push ups then box push ups then final normal is perfect as you're reducing the angle all the time, great post that one.

just keep at it. even when guys stop doing chin ups for a few months they have to often start at scratch again doing 3 sets of 3 and so on but the bodyweight movements seem to develop faster to my mind, must be how we are made.

zsha

Great thanks v much all. Am practicing away and hopefully will be able to do them in no time!!!! Thanks

arse..biscuits

zsha wrote: »

Great thanks v much all. Am practicing away and hopefully will be able to do them in no time!!!! Thanks

Keep us posted on progress.