Remember back when I compared myself to a dinosaur? The situation has not improved, my friends.
The power of the push up still eludes me. And I’m starting to get a little irritated about this.
Ok, I’m not freaking Jillian Michaels or anything; I get that. However, I’m in fairly good shape. I’m always active and I know I’m strong. Maybe not Arnold Schwarzenegger strong, but I’m not a wimp. So why are freaking push ups so hard for me?
I could maybe, MAYBE do 10 real push ups in a row, but that’s it. And again, I strength train fairly often. So, as most good researchers do these days, I turned to the internet for help. My helpful hints?
- Do more push ups. That will help.
- Drink protein shakes to build your muscles
- Do standing push ups against the wall
- Build more muscle
Well, awesome. Thanks for those worthless tips of advice. I was feeling pretty down, but then I found one shining piece of advice, sparkling at me from the depth of the internet:
Strengthen your core. That will help with push ups.
Hmmm, this kind of makes sense to me and no one has ever said that to me before. What do you think? Think doing 4 million situps each day will help with my embarrassing push up stats?
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I know some of you mentioned that you are push up champions. Think this core concept will help me?
What’s the one strength training move that just makes you want to cry?