One hundred push ups

[OakLeaf]

Question: I'm right-handed so my right arm is stronger than my left. I find my weight migrating over my right arm.

Do them on a wobble board. It's easy enough to make one at home from a piece of 3/4" plywood, about 3' x 1', with a 2x2 fastened along the center (going the short direction). When you do them, be sure your hands are centered around the fulcrum. That's almost surely going to reduce the number you can do, but you can be sure you're not getting a side-to-side imbalance. For extra credit, do them with your feet on another wobble board

For those of you using SportTracks, just thought I'd share.... By using "My Friends'" the numbers don't interfere with the cycling or running stats, and you can still run activity reports.

What happens if you make a category under your own activities? How does it mess up the cycling/running stats?

Everything I've read says no lower than a 90 degree bend to the elbow to prevent improper stress to the shoulders....
Anyone heard anything else?

I think as long as you don't bring your elbows behind your spine, you're okay (provided you aren't sinking into your shoulders, which should be avoided anyhow). That isn't always going to be 90°, depending on your hand position and radius/humerus ratio. When we do fitness testing in our gym, we have the participant touch their chin to our fist, held vertically so the little finger's on the floor and their chin touches our thumb - that's about 4" off the floor. But maybe one of the PTs will weigh in on this?

I got home real late last night so I will start tonight. Gives me a warm up before my planned run tonight.

That's funny, I used my run to warm up for the push-ups


Okay... I wasn't sure whether to start at Week 1 regardless of how many push-ups I could do to begin with? Since Yellow did, so am I I didn't bother with an initial test, even though I hadn't maxed out in years, simply because I have a general idea of how many I could do.

10-10-8-6-26

Do I get extra credit for the set of 10 I did right after my run, when I was planning to do the whole five sets, but then DH showed up to pick me up and I didn't want to keep him waiting?

[SadieKate]

What happens if you make a [SportTracks] category under your own activities? How does it mess up the cycling/running stats?

The best place to enter PUs is in the mileage column so that you can run activitiy reports showing frequency and totals.

If you do this under your own activities, the PUs add to your mileage at zero speed and falsly increase ride/run/swim frequency. SportTracks is really focused on events that have distance or speed attached, but apparently the enhancement to use for stationary workout activities has been requested.

None of this may be important to you . . .

[SadieKate]

I think as long as you don't bring your elbows behind your spine, you're okay (provided you aren't sinking into your shoulders, which should be avoided anyhow). That isn't always going to be 90°, depending on your hand position and radius/humerus ratio. When we do fitness testing in our gym, we have the participant touch their chin to our fist, held vertically so the little finger's on the floor and their chin touches our thumb - that's about 4" off the floor. But maybe one of the PTs will weigh in on this?

Okey-dokey, a good reason for large boobs and doing PUs bra-less!