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I started using them recently and can feel the difference.
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@nta said in Back for more!:
@taniwharugby never really considered that - not even being able to complete 20 pushups with decent form is probably a better starting point.
@mn5 said in Back for more!:
Dunno if 'graduate' is the best word to use. If they start getting easy you can always add weight?
( ie strap on some weights, don't get fat )
Overhand grip is always harder than underhand, in my humble opinion. And adding weight seems a bit stupid when I can just do a second rep and so on. And I don't have any weights at home.
Overhand is definitely harder but I love underhand purely for the guns.
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@taniwharugby so just under the hands and over the back?
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@nta sorry, no this is the small resistance bands, you have it looped from wrist to wrist as natural tendancy is to have more weight on the inside of your hands when doing press ups, having the bands forces you to put it more on the outside which helps overall technique (apparently)
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I've normally work on pull ups being wider grip and overhand. And chins being underhand with hands closer in.
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and def a big fan of adding a band to help you focus on full range of movement and get those extra reps in.
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@nta you can use the bigger bands for pull ups, which can assist with technique because you are not struggling as much.
I've never been good at pulls ups, but a couple of yeaRS BACK BOUGHT A PULL UP rack, and did them every day until I could bang out 10.
Since I hurt my shoulder I havent been doing them as much and have used the resistance bands to assist though.
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@MN5 I reckon the band makes you do more - so the pain is worse! turns those half ass reps into practicing the full range, and as long as you mix in unassisted stuff as well.
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@mn5 said in Back for more!:
Bands.....aren't they for weak people?
is that like how Pilates is for girls?
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@taniwharugby said in Back for more!:
@mn5 said in Back for more!:
Bands.....aren't they for weak people?
is that like how Pilates is for girls?
Don't assume. It's for strong flexible people of any of the 59 genders in the world at the moment.
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Right. Think I've had enough of this fatigue shit. This cholesterol drug has to go!
Been 46 days since the first blood test, 33 days since medication started, and 40 days since I started getting active and watching the eating again. I should fucking kill it. And if I don't, maybe I'll just ask for a lower dose because not being able to sleep properly, and the mental fog I walk through some days, is shithouse.
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@nta said in Back for more!:
@taniwharugby never really considered that - not even being able to complete 20 pushups with decent form is probably a better starting point.
You'd be amazed at how quickly pushups accumulates into repetitive numbers. Consistently not to failure and all of a sudden you realise you can do heaps bro!
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@antipodean So you reckon if I consistently do 10 with good form for a week, I can start racking up higher numbers?
Think I remember the 100 pushup challenge being something like that, but my lower back / core started to let me down.
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A wee while ago (a few decades) I was doing 20 pushups a time as (group) punishment during the day, after a few weeks I could do a hundy no probs because during each day I was doing more.
At our age if you did 10 an hour you'd be doing at least 100 during a normal work day.
At a guess that sort of volume would make a massive difference to a max effort each week.
If it's a core issue, do 10 push-ups and then 10 sit-ups.
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@antipodean my night time stretches includes 40 push ups.
