Matt Haxmeier Member



Profile: Join Date: May 2009 Location: Arvada CO Posts: 1,619

Re: Pushups... They do seem much slower than the normal. We've started working them into some workouts. I wouldn't work them in to something like Angie or Barbara because I'd rather use those as benchmarks and do whatever I did last time and/or what others are doing for comparisons. I tried them on an unpartitioned Murph one day and they were so ridicuously slow with that kind of volume that I lost all steam. It made 200 pushups take as long as the first mile and 100 pullups combined.



To me 100 pushups lifting hands at the bottom makes it a significantly different movement. I wouldn't start using it for everything the same way I wouldn't say all pushups need to be done on the rings now. It seems like the training adaptation should be considered more than just the strictest movement.