Well done, a good session.Quote:
Originally Posted by Mossdog
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Well done, a good session.Quote:
Originally Posted by Mossdog
Thanks Mike.Quote:
Originally Posted by Mike T
EMOM press-ups routine. 11 reps (floor to lock to floor) press-ups, every minute, for 10 minutes.
Secs remaining for each of the 10X 1 min sets.
43 - 43 - 42 - 40 - 40 - 39 - 32 - 30 - 27 - 18
EMOM chest to floor press-ups, 6 reps x 18 minutes, so a total of 108. Too knackered to do any more.
Too knackered! C'mon Mike. Looking at the record you only ran 13 plus miles and a trifling 4hrs 30 plus mins yesterday. More spinach needed, surely :)Quote:
Originally Posted by Mike T
Dumbbell bicep curls. 2 X 12.5 kg. Simultaneous lifting with both arms.Eccentric lowering. 2 mins break between sets, during which I did x( 10) reps of floor to lock to floor press-ups. Curl Reps were to failure, per set.
23 (10) - 15 (10) - 13 (10) - 11 (10) - 11 (10) - 10 (10) - 10 (10) - 11 (10) = 106 lifts and 80 press-ups.
Erm...no running for me today by I did muck out 8 stables :)
EMOM x 24 minutes, 2 chin-ups alternating with 8 chest to floor press-ups, so 24 chin-ups, 96 press-ups.
EMOM press-ups routine. 11 reps (floor to lock to floor) press-ups, every minute, for 10 minutes.
Secs remaining for each of the 10X 1 min sets.
45 - 44 - 44 - 40 - 41 - 41 - 40 - 29 - 21 - 12
EMOM press-ups - 10 reps (floor to lock to floor) press-ups, every minute, for 10 minutes.
Seconds remaining for each of the sets.
48 - 49 - 48 - 48 - 48 - 47 - 48 - 44 - 44 - 42
That's a huge improvement in 2 days.Quote:
Originally Posted by Mossdog
I wish! Previously, 11 reps per min.. Today 10 reps min.. That 10% difference per set is very significant and obviously cumulatively more challenging with each set. That's why I'm 50/50 fail at 12 reps. An extra 20% really hurts. The effort all becomes markedly difficult in the last 2 to 3 sets, where performance falls off a cliff. And once that happens your recovery time for the next set is diminished to the point it can be extremely hard. Give it a go?Quote:
Originally Posted by mr brightside
I thought I should try this to show me how far away I am from Mossdog's 10 chest to floor press-ups EMOM for 10 minutes.
EMOM for 15 minutes, the first 3 sets were 10, all the rest 5. I chose 5 as after those 10s I could not do any more in that 4th set, and thereafter it made the counting easy.
So a total of 90. Sets of 10 are tough with so little recovery.
You'll have to describe to me exactly what you do. I could do 10 pressups a minute all morning long, but something must be making it more difficult i feel?Quote:
Originally Posted by Mossdog
2 chin-ups EMOM x 20, so 40 in total.
Dumbbell bicep curls. 2 X 12.5 kg. Simultaneous lifting with both arms.Eccentric lowering. 2 mins break between sets, during which I did x( 10) reps of floor to lock to floor press-ups. Curl Reps were to failure, per set.
25 (10) - 15 (10) - 10 (10) - 11 (10) - 11 (10) - 10 (10) - 9 (10)
If you can do 10 floor to lock to floor press-ups, in a minute, for consecutive minutes, all day long, than I salute you Sir! I think the best I've managed to do consecutively was 23 sets of EMOMs or so.Quote:
Originally Posted by mr brightside
I can sometimes churn out 12 reps per min for 10 consecutive mins, but no more than 10 sets. I've not tried pumping out 11 reps per minute until failure but guess it would be 12 to 13 sets - that's an idea though!
More power to your elbow (literally and metaphorically). Good stuff Mike!Quote:
Originally Posted by Mike T
You can just get up and walk around in between the reps, how hard can it be? It sounds easier than you and Mike seem to report it to be.Quote:
Originally Posted by Mossdog
Yes, if there are any seconds remaining of the minute (say 45 secs for example), you can get up, shake your arms out, and be back into position (flat on the floor, face down) just before the next minute begins when you have to push out again(the next set of reps).Quote:
Originally Posted by mr brightside
There's the same option, to stretch, for every one of the 10 consecutive minutes. However, when you've an intention to do (in my case for example) 12 reps per set, the final few sets (for me at least) become a massive struggle, with little time to recover at all - hence marginal successes.
Having said that, if you can rattle these out no bother Mr B, then in comparison we're obviously complete wusses that need to try harder.
It's just very hard to get a benchmark on difficulty when you have nothing to go on; i don't even understand the reference in the thread title. The best yardstick is age and gender...
I accepted your invite nevertheless and gave it a go, my remaining times were- 48, 48, 48, 48, 48, 48, 48, 48, 47, 47. I'm disappointed about the tailing off at the end, and i wouldn't be able to do it all morning as my tennis elbow was flaring up by number 7.
Chest on the floor variety? If so, well done.Quote:
Originally Posted by mr brightside
I did it off a 15kg bar so chest just clear of the bar, I can get my wrists lined up better off a bar.
EMOM press-ups routine. 11 reps (floor to lock to floor) press-ups, every minute, for 10 minutes.
Secs remaining for each of the 10X 1 min sets.
45 - 45 - 44 - 41 - 41 - 41 - 41 - 29 - 25 - 18
Great effort MrB. And, there's your bench mark. I see it an individual thing, rather than age/sex.. Give 12 reps go and see how that feels (once your elbow improves)? That'll be a 20% increase - very tough for me.Quote:
Originally Posted by mr brightside
Mike's point about floor, to lock, to floor is significant though. For example, I could regularly churn you 50 plus press-up in once session (64 in under 2 mins in my prime!), but when I started from the floor it drastically cut that down to low 30s.
Not sure how the 15kg bar equates. The floor start and finish per rep entails all your body weight on the floor, resting on your chin, chest, pelvis, knees, feet. I found that to prevent myself from cheating (unconsciously, honestly), that when I lower my self to the floor to complete a rep, I slightly and momentarily lift my hands off the floor, as this ensures my full weight is 'dead'. Otherwise I noted how when I was tiring I was touching the floor slightly, along my body, but the sustained muscle tension allowed for a quicker (and easier) lift. If that makes sense.
Great effort MrB. And, there's your bench mark. I see it an individual thing, rather than age/sex.. Give 12 reps go and see how that feels (once your elbow improves)? That'll be a 20% increase - very tough for me.
Mike's point about floor, to lock, to floor is significant though. For example, I could regularly churn out 50 plus press-up in one session (64 in under 2 mins in my prime!), but when I started from the floor it drastically cut that down to low 30s.
Not sure how the 15kg bar equates. The floor start and finish per rep entails all your body weight on the floor, resting on your chin, chest, pelvis, knees, feet. I found that to prevent myself from cheating (unconsciously, honestly), that when I lower my self to the floor to complete a rep, I slightly and momentarily lift my hands off the floor, as this ensures my full weight is 'dead'. Otherwise I noted how when I was tiring I was touching the floor slightly, along my body, but the sustained muscle tension allowed for a quicker (and easier) lift. If that makes sense.
Some call them hands off press-ups. For me, 40 to 50 ordinary press-ups = about 20 chest to floor press-ups. They are not just harder, but more objective - you are either fully rested on the floor or you are not. This means comparisons - with ourselves over time, and with others, are more meaningful.Quote:
Originally Posted by Mossdog
My wrists are buggered from decades in engineering so i can't comfortably adopt a floor pressup position, it has to be on a bar i can grip or on my fists; which doesn't take long to hurt depending on the surface my knuckles are on. I can get my chest on the bar, though.Quote:
Originally Posted by Mossdog
10 press-ups EMOM for 15 minutes - the "trick" being these were traditional press-ups, not chest to floor. Traditional press-ups are so much easier.
Press-ups (floor to lock to floor) to failure per set - 1 min recovery intervals between sets.
31 - 20 - 13 - 10 - 11 - 10 - 12 - 10
Dumbbell bicep curls. 2 X 12.5 kg. Simultaneous lifting with both arms.Eccentric lowering. 2 mins break between sets, during which I did (x10) reps of floor to lock to floor press-ups. Curl Reps were to failure, per set.
25 (10) - 17 (10) - 12 (10) - 12 (10) - 11 (10) - 9 (10) - 9 (10)
EMOM for 30 minutes: the 1st 15 = 6 chest to floor press-ups, the last 15 = 2 chin-ups. So totals = 90 + 30.
EMOM - sets of 11 press-ups, floor to lock to floor. Time in secs remaining for each min.
44 - 43 - 43 - 42 - 42 - 39 - 36 - 30 - 26 - 11
EMOM chin-ups - 10 mins of x3 reps, = 30 , followed by 10 mins of x2 reps. = 20. I then dabbled with x2 reps every 30 secs, but should have started with that regime as I was too tired (and a bit bored)after the previous sets. Next time perhaps!
EMOM chin-ups x 2 for 26 minutes, so 52 in total.
Well done on your session Mossdog - looking forward to your "next time".
Thanks Mike - that's quite a total too!Quote:
Originally Posted by Mike T
Dumbbell bicep curls. 2 X 12.5 kg. Simultaneous lifting with both arms.Eccentric lowering. 2 mins break between sets, during which I did (x10) reps of floor to lock to floor press-ups. Curl Reps were to failure, per set.
22 (10) - 16 (10) - 10 (10) - 11 (10) - 1o (10) - 9 (10) - 10 (10)
Chest to floor press-ups, EMOM for 20 minutes: 10 x 3 times, 6 x 10 times, 4 x 7 times. So 118 in total.
EMOM press-ups routine. 11 reps (floor to lock to floor) press-ups, every minute, for 10 minutes.
Secs remaining for each of the 10X 1 min sets.
46 - 44 - 44 - 40 - 41 - 41 - 40 - 30 - 25 - 20
2 chin-ups EMOM for 27 minutes, so 54 in total.
Dumbbell bicep curls. 2 X 12.5 kg. Simultaneous lifting with both arms.Eccentric lowering. 2 mins break between sets, during which I did (x10) reps of floor to lock to floor press-ups. Curl Reps were to failure, per set.
23 (10) - 17 (10) - 13 (10) - 11 (10) - 11 (10) - 9 (10) - 10 (10) - 10 (10)
Chest to floor press-ups EMOM for 25 minutes: 10 x 3 times, 6 x 9 times, 4 x 13 times = 136 in total.
Crikey! Well done Mike.Quote:
Originally Posted by Mike T
In stark contrast, something was severely amiss with me tonight. My times from the start of the first set were poor compared to the usual, and it was a much more marked effort to churn out my old fav. x10 routine. No idea what was up.
EMOM - sets of 10 press-ups, floor to lock to floor. Time in secs remaining for each min.
41 - 41 - 41 - 41 - 41 - 40 - 38 - 31 - 25 - 18
EMOM - sets of 10 press-ups, floor to lock to floor. Time in secs remaining for each min.
43 - 43 - 42 - 41 - 43 - 40 - 39 - 36 - 34 - 29
Better, but still way off peak...grrrH