Help with Push ups

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Shrish

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I managed between Physiquetransformation.com (fat loss), gym and your videos to get down to 17% BF(from 29%), and still going. For at home use you have the best, most challenging routines, and I pretty much tossed all the others I had because they just got too easy and did not provide the cardio and resistance level I needed. However, I cannot seem to increase the push ups I need to obtain a higher score on my military PT test. Can you provide any specific weight or resistance tips to help me increase the push ups as a female? Was not sure which specific muscles are needed building for push ups (Deltoids, Pecs?)or where I need to concentrate.
Thank you in advance!!!
Christine
 
Christine, I'm not Cathe, but I thought I'd add a few more suggestions:

Play around with your hand placement when you're doing your push-up sets: the wider your hand placement the more the pecs are recruited, and the closer the hands are the more the triceps are recruited.

Also play around with your leg elevation; try to do a few sets or reps with your feet on a low step, or higher if you can make it. This will vary the recruitment of the anterior deltoids, the third major player in push-ups.

Also, one cross-training exercise I find to help a lot with building push-up endurance is weighted triceps dips. I do these with my hands on a chair, my feet on a 12" platform, my legs fairly well extended in front of me, and a barbell across my hips. I've focused a lot in the past year with increasing the barbell weightload AND the number of reps I can do (by now I'm up to a set of 32, brief rest and then another set of 24, with a 50-lb barbell), and I've also totally increased my push-up capacity as well.

HTH -

a-Jock
 
>>by now I'm up to a set of 32, brief rest and then another set of 24, with a 50-lb barbell

Just wanted to say WOW!!!:eek: :eek: :eek:

Catherine
 
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