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I'm talking about the push-ups with your feet on an elevated surface like a chair, bench, box, etc etc. Never tried this before until this year. First time I managed 50 and then second time I did 55. I never like doing push ups as I find them boring going for endurance.
I suggest that if you do this, use a device called the 'perfect pushup.' Otherwise you are bending your wrist so much that you risk ending up with a case of tendinitis. I once hurt my wrist from doing too many push-ups, and I wasn't even elevating my feet. With elevated feet your wrists are going to be that much more severely bent.
I'm not sure how many decline push-ups i could achieve at one given time. I assume almost 100, if not more. Last year during my ironman training I did 5 sets, reps of 75 decline push-ups as part of my endurance training. I've gotten much stronger and a bit heavier since. I'm 5' 11 158lbs and now use 200lbs as part of my chest workout regiment.
I have slowly built up my strength while loosing 70lbs over the past year. I was nice to be able to see the results of being able to do decline pushups for the first time in YEARS a couple of days back. Though I only got 5, I am sure like the situps I have been crunching (no pun intended), the numbers will increase quite rapidly
WHo cares? It's a power to weight thing so first of all is meaningless without more info about the person. Second, if you are just trying to see if you are average, this isn't the best place as much of the forum is filled with fitness enthusiasts, all at different levels. Or are you just looking for a pat on the back. If so...WOW bro, great job. How can I be more like you? I bet you can grow a beard in a manner of minutes.
And I never heard anyone refer to push ups as an endurance activity.
For some more helpful info, I agree with wutitiz about using the Perfect Pushup, it's a great tool.
Doesn't this depend on how high your feet are in relation to your head? I put my feet on top of a wood stove that rises 33" from the floor. The best I can do is 15 reps. For regular pushups, tops is about 40, down from 50 last year. Of course, I'll be 70 in January, so that's the excuse I'll give you. :-)
And I never heard anyone refer to push ups as an endurance activity.
Lotta guys do it for endurance. You see those contests where guys get well into the hundreds. You're not building power, strength, or hypertrophy with that many reps.
The problem with this is that the numbers won't mean much. Almost no one exhibits proper form when they do pushups. You may remember the 100 pushups craze from few years back. People posted vids of themselves on youtube cranking them out, but very few were doing actual pushups.
Question: in theory, if you could do X number of decline pushups, does that mean you would be able to do more pushups where you are level?
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