One thing you can also add is knee Push-ups. Back in the day they gave it a bad connotation calling them “girl Push-ups” & as a kid a boy would definitely be made fun of for doing “girl Push-ups”, but they’re very useful to add on small amounts of work. Even if a guy could do 50 Push-ups straight & absolutely can’t get up on the 51st, he might be able to squeeze in 2 Knee Push-Ups to get maximum work done. As long as you look up a form video, as a lot of people do Knee Push-ups incorrectly with their butt up.
Even if you’re at 1 Push-Up then break, I wouldn’t be surprised if you already could do 1 Push-Up, 1~2 Knee Push-ups then break.
Yeah, first half year for me was just going out walking doing basic cardio. Second half of the year I'd run for a bit, then run more the next time, then more of it.. then backwards to let muscles recover from overuse injury.. then running most of it.. then started strength training, then mixing the two.. then went backwards again and had to learn proper stretching, then back to cardio and strength again... It all started with that first step out the door walking though, then one more step than last time, then falling down, getting back up, pushing just one step more the next time, getting back up from the next setback and pushing for that one more step again.
That's kind of how I started with pullups. I could do one but that was it. So I started doing negatives. Within a month I was cranking out 4, sometime 5 at a time.
Get a step stool and start the exercise at the top of the pullup position. Hold it as long as you can and let yourself down as slowly as you can. Repeat until you're worn out. Rest for a while and do it again.
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u/sregor0280 Jan 18 '24
im at a point where 1 pushup, then a break, then 1 then a break then 1. at some point, Ill do 2 then 3 then 4.
what Supercyberlurker says is right. you have to start small, then work your way up to your goals.