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Push-ups are, at-best, a difficult exercise to get right This is surprisingly true. On Monday, I tested my one-rep max on shoulder presses, which involved a c
by dkarl 15y ago
Push-ups are, at-best, a difficult exercise to get right
This is surprisingly true. On Monday, I tested my one-rep max on shoulder presses, which involved a couple of balls-out failures with a weight I couldn't lift. Two days later, I feel fine. The last time I tried to find out how many pushups I could do in a row, I hurt my shoulder and didn't feel right again for two weeks. I'm pretty sure on any given day I could simply get on the floor and do pushups (with decent form) until I hurt myself. It's much safer to stick with exercises where you can safely work until failure, since you never know when you're going to accidentally exceed your limits. It's doubly true for people who don't exercise a lot.
- checker 15y agoI found out that doing flat-handed pushups can cause wrist pain. Pushups on bars or knuckles are much safer for the tendons!
- roel_v 15y agoFunnily enough, this seems to be common knowledge amongst gym instructors. Yet many of the people who routinely do pushups as part of the conditioning or warmup for indoor sports don't seem to know, even if people have been doing it for decades. Even worse, in the cases that I'm experienced with (for various martial arts) these pushups are done on mats that make it even worse because the wrist is even more over-stretched (because the ball of the hand sinks into the soft mat, while the fingers do so less); and doing push-ups on the knuckles is considered something 'for the hard core'.