Daughter needs fast help

[Gramps]

My daughter is applying for a job requiring x number of pushups among other things. This is her weak spot with little upper body strength. She's in her early 20s, could lose 20-30 pounds, eats decent, but never has been into exercise. I'm pushing her on upper body strength with a total gym copy and will be hitting the weider home gym but what help can you offer to get her up in strength in 30 days?

And any snide remarks here will meet my dark side without restraint.

 

[kaoticsolja]

They have those push up pyramids that supposedly help.. Hold on lemme find it

 

[xgunx]

Is she allowed to do girl pushups? Or does she gotta do them for real?

 

[kaoticsolja]

Here's one from scooby himself... http://scoobysworkshop.com/zero-to-100-pushups-for-complete-beginners/

 

[jaymaximus]

Sounds like military. Or something federal.
Just doing more pushups. Start off by doing maybe 10 pushups on the hour every hour. Then at night do the same every ten minutes or so. Or she can do something simple. Like while watching tv get down every commercial and do x amount of pushups or as many as possible before a show starts again.
She just has to work her way up. She'll be sore at first but it'll go away.

*FYI, these things have worked for me when trying to get female Soldiers to improve on push ups

 

[iintensity]

The main thing she should be doing is push ups and learning the movement. That alone along with weight loss will improve her number of reps in the shortest period of time.

 

[xgunx]

as many push ups as possible
dead lifts
sit ups
and pull ups if she can

 

[kaoticsolja]

Sounds like military. Or something federal.
Just doing more pushups. Start off by doing maybe 10 pushups on the hour every hour. Then at night do the same every ten minutes or so. Or she can do something simple. Like while watching tv get down every commercial and do x amount of pushups or as many as possible before a show starts again.
She just has to work her way up. She'll be sore at first but it'll go away.

*FYI, these things have worked for me when trying to get female Soldiers to improve on push ups

I did this in junior high.. Every commercial I did push ups then next commercial do sit ups/crunchs till my parents told me to hit the rack

 

[xgunx]

Yes as iitensity said weight loss if she loses the 20-30 pounds you spoke of it will help tremendously

 

[biglumber69]

Like everybody said just have to do more pushups. I use to get a deck of cards and flip one over ate a time. If the card was a 2 I would do 2 pushups. If it was 8, I would do 8 pushups.all face cards are 11 pushups. Have her do the whole stack of cards every day.

 

[weighted chinup]

Look up Greasing the Groove.

 

[Genghis K.]

She should watch her wrist when doing a push-up. Instruct her to ball her fist and do them on her knuckles.
I used to take a deck of cards, flip one over and do that many push-ups. Flip another card over, do that many sit-ups. The pattern goes on and on. At some point, you multiply the number on the card by 2, 3 etc. and do that many push-ups/sit-ups.

Thankfully, push-ups are an exercise she can make a LOT of progress with in the time she has. Her biggest obstacle could be in her mind and having the dedication to stick with it. Best of luck to her.

 

[Gramps]

We've been doing "mind control" and she's made HUGE progress! Now her problem is dropping low enough. She can do them from half up to full up, but below half, she struggles. We're getting there, though, and both of us are having fun with it as I don't cut her ANY slack and go full drill instructor on her ass.

On the bench, "Gimme 4" "I can't" Gimme fucking 4!" nothing "Then just give me 2!" I get 2, congratulate her, then "Now give me the 2 you fucking owe me and smile like those assholes in the video!" and I get 2 more out of her with a giggle. If it works...

 

[Mayne]

Look up Greasing the Groove.

^ Good I read all comments before posting because this is the best method for me too

 

[smashfit]

I personally like to do push-ups with a closer hand placement vs a wider hand placement...obviously it's hard for us female to do a wider push up because most females (including myself) don't have very well developed lats.

Have her try that, and keep her hands closer to her body.

 

[Izk]

I personally like to do push-ups with a closer hand placement vs a wider hand placement...obviously it's hard for us female to do a wider push up because most females (including myself) don't have very well developed lats.

Have her try that, and keep her hands closer to her body.

I don't see the correlation between push ups and lats, other than added weight. How do lats come into play?

 

[biglumber69]

I don't see the correlation between push ups and lats, other than added weight. How do lats come into play?

The same way they help you bench. You can get a lot of pushing power from your lats. When I bench I draw my elbows towards my lats then pause then drive it back up. It is a power move. If you keep your eblows farther away from your lats you lose power.

 

[Oregongearhead]

I don't see the correlation between push ups and lats, other than added weight. How do lats come into play?

You never done killer bench press/dips and was severly sore in the lats the next day ? The lats are the negative muscles when you press....

Goodluck Gramps girl !!

 

[Docd187123]

Lats don't help with driving the bar up during a bench press. They create a much more sturdy shoulder joint and upper back which then helps with a bigger bench press.

 

[Izk]

Lats don't help with driving the bar up during a bench press. They create a much more sturdy shoulder joint and upper back which then helps with a bigger bench press.

More so infraspinatus and teres major/minor than lats then?