How many push ups can you do?

[Doctor Amadeus]

I'm 210 and thats in one time. I've tried to keep myself in shape since I left the army, and that about what I used to do on my PT tests.

That is pretty kick ass, just made a lot of guys put their shirts back on HAHAHA. Heart disease is a bitch good thing you are well ahead of it, and able to fight off an alien invasion.

Now I gotta find the number to order Bowflex thanks to you.

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Sounds like an APFT. If it is, then it's one go. You can rest but your hands and feet can leave the ground and your knees can't touch the ground while resting. So basically you can just arch your back to rest.

Yeah, I do mine exactly like the picture in my mind heh. But yeah no girly push ups, 50 is my max or 60 then less after that in my following sets.

[HotSauce]

i can do about 20-30. i used to be able to do more. pretty sure i did 100 once about 5 years ago lol

[Granyala]

1-5 I guess.
No clue and not about to try right now. ^^

[kamuimac]

last time i tried to do max in 1 go it was 70+ but havent tried in a while - i do them everyday after waking up during workdays (monday-friday) 2 series of 20 push ups , squats and crunches to wake myself up. works as effectively as morning coffee

[Deleted]

Is it me or are those options rather low?

I'm about the unsportiest person i know and i don't have issues getting to 50.

[Deleted]

Whua over 9000 I guess. One day punch club alone does this amount?

[AlphaOut]

That is pretty kick ass, just made a lot of guys put their shirts back on HAHAHA. Heart disease is a bitch good thing you are well ahead of it, and able to fight off an alien invasion.

Now I gotta find the number to order Bowflex thanks to you.

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Yeah, I do mine exactly like the picture in my mind heh. But yeah no girly push ups, 50 is my max or 60 then less after that in my following sets.

Yeah now days i usually just about tap the ground with my chest. Push ups are extremely underrated. Calisthenics in general isn't as popular as is should be. The amount of variations of push ups you can do is insane. My personal favorite is archer pushups.

[mittacc]

Used to do 20-30 every now and then when I was bored when I was like 17-19 years old and I'm much stronger now but I mainly work out for strength and not endurance so maybe 50 tops.

[Allybeboba]

Yeah now days i usually just about tap the ground with my chest. Push ups are extremely underrated. Calisthenics in general isn't as popular as is should be. The amount of variations of push ups you can do is insane. My personal favorite is archer pushups.

At my office every month when they ask for "improvements" I recommend morning calisthenics. I may have mentioned it before on here, just getting up and stretching every hour helps your joints. Personally, every hour or so I walk 12-16 flights of stairs down then up. I get about 100-120 flights/day.

[schwarzkopf]

I'd guess close to 2000-3000 ... assuming 20 years or so

Seriously though - none, ever since I did my right rotator cuff 3 or 4 years ago. I do standing pushups against a barbell these days as a strengthener... but nothing serious.

[Deleted]

About thirty, in a row any-way. In sets of ten I tend to do fifty; I try to do them every morning, though lately I've being in a pretty tardy mood regarding, probably due to my diet, so haven't being doing them as often as I would have liked.

[DechCJC]

50 is about my limit if i push myself as hard as I can, though the form really starts to go 'blegh' after 40.

[crakerjack]

I do 100 every morning, it's the only way to really wake myself up and get the day started.

[markos82]

This is totally incorrect. I can do maybe 10 or so and I am very strong. Pushups is a bit like gym exercises, they target mostly useless muscles good for gay porn, wearing lycra tees...and not much else. There is a reason you do not see huge biceps and pecs on men who work hard physically for a living..they are mostly for show.

Then you are not strong but extremely weak...

[Deleted]

40 or so unbroken with good form. Then I start getting sloppy. I've never been good with them. They are heavily included in my exercise program though.

[Linri]

I can do about 20-30 before my wrist begins to really hurt

Broke my scaphoid bone in half a few years ago on my right wrist (a tiny bone in ur wrist that allows for motion)

Unfortunately it has severely limited the motion in my wrist to about 30% of it's intended motion without applied pressure.

So, about 20-30 before my wrist is in pain and unable to continue without rest.

[Doctor Amadeus]

I'd guess close to 2000-3000 ... assuming 20 years or so

Seriously though - none, ever since I did my right rotator cuff 3 or 4 years ago. I do standing pushups against a barbell these days as a strengthener... but nothing serious.

Best answer yet or the funniest.

[Erolian]

A little over 100 in one go if I'm really pushing myself although it isn't enjoyable. I'm about 175lbs and honestly not really in shape although I'm not overweight either. Its more about conditioning yourself to do them by doing some daily rather than actually being super muscular or whatever

[brimdog]

United States Marine Corps - we do "many" push ups.
in fact: the punishment for not being able to do at least 50 push ups, is to do 50 more.

[CptEgo]

All you guys saying you can do 100 pushups, you are doing it wrong.