So I decided to start exercising..

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They were girl pushups .. right?

It took me quite a while to do 20 consecutive normal pushups, and I'm a 17 year old guy...

Well it would just take longer for her to do it

I don't see the problem here, I could do all of what she did only it would take a while, and I don't believe she's been on all day so that would explain the absense.

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[Otis Da HousKat]

They were girl pushups .. right?

It took me quite a while to do 20 consecutive normal pushups, and I'm a 17 year old guy...

On her knees, like a good girl.

I can do like 40 good form pushups consecutively, 50+ if I really want to push it, and I train all week.

[ßoltster]

On her knees, like a good girl.

I can do like 40 good form pushups consecutively, 50+ if I really want to push it, and I train all week.

Do you do muscle groups? Or are your pushups part of cross training?

[Night Fox]

They are pushups you dolt. They're called girl/half pushups.

No, they don't deserve to be called pushups.
Moving your knees that far up decreases the work done enough that it would take much longer to gain any muscle or lose any body fat. Surely twice as long, if not more.
And you aren't pushing anything up except your torso, and that's barely anything.

[ßoltster]

No, they don't deserve to be called pushups.
Moving your knees that far up decreases the work done enough that it would take much longer to gain any muscle or lose any body fat. Surely twice as long, if not more.

What you think =/= what it is

Do you do pushups? Have you ever? They're great if you're trying to max out what you can do. It's like a pushup-dropset. You do as many full pushups as you can, and then do as many half/girl pushups as you can. They're good for people who lack the upper body strength to hit 6-12 normal pushups too.

[Otis Da HousKat]

Do you do muscle groups? Or are your pushups part of cross training?

Well I do sets of pushups as part of my chest workout, but I only max out while doing martial arts warm ups.

No, they don't deserve to be called pushups.
Moving your knees that far up decreases the work done enough that it would take much longer to gain any muscle or lose any body fat. Surely twice as long, if not more.
And you aren't pushing anything up except your torso, and that's barely anything.

Yes, knee-pushups are useful if you don't have the initial strength to do full pushups.

[Night Fox]

During P.E., we are required to do the exercises that our coach scheduled for that day.
On average, we do about twenty jumping jacks, ten pushups and situps, and a bunch of stretches each day.

Yes, knee-pushups are useful if you don't have the initial strength to do full pushups.

Then apparently I do have the proper strength and just find it absolutely useless to do knee pushups. What I've been saying's apparently my opinion, then.

[ßoltster]

During P.E., we are required to do the exercises that our coach scheduled for that day.
On average, we do about twenty jumping jacks, ten pushups and situps, and a bunch of stretches each day.Then apparently I do have the proper strength and just find it absolutely useless to do knee pushups. What I've been saying's apparently my opinion, then.

You can still use them to do drop sets. You'll probably gain strength alot faster doing so.

[Night Fox]

You can still use them to do drop sets. You'll probably gain strength alot faster doing so.

I don't do any exercising besides what my coach makes me, so I don't know much about it.
What is a drop set?
I could Google it and act like I knew it all along, if you'd rather.

[ßoltster]

I don't do any exercising besides what my coach makes me, so I don't know much about it.
What is a drop set?
I could Google it and act like I knew it all along, if you'd rather.

Doing your max on a heavy weight, and then doing more on a lower weight.

For pushups, you do your max on weighted pushups, then normal pushups, then half pushups.

Until you "drop"

[Otis Da HousKat]

I don't do any exercising besides what my coach makes me, so I don't know much about it.
What is a drop set?
I could Google it and act like I knew it all along, if you'd rather.

Do an exercise with a certain weight until you can't do it anymore, then immediately use a lower weight until failure again.

forget, beaten.

During P.E., we are required to do the exercises that our coach scheduled for that day.
On average, we do about twenty jumping jacks, ten pushups and situps, and a bunch of stretches each day.Then apparently I do have the proper strength and just find it absolutely useless to do knee pushups. What I've been saying's apparently my opinion, then.

Jumping jacks are easy. I do about 200 as part of warmup and am hardly out of breath.

[_Rave_]

They are pushups you dolt. They're called girl/half pushups.

lol

At my all guys school, its 20 pushups to our sets in gym and the teachers snicker if kids can't do it.

You do realize why hardcore motherforgeters do pushups with their legs on a chair, right?

And how "girl" pushups aren't actually pushups?

[Night Fox]

Oh, I don't do weights.
If I played football, I'd go through weight training over the summer, except I don't so I don't.

[ßoltster]

You do realize why hardcore motherforgeters do pushups with their legs on a chair, right?

You can't relate doing pushups with your legs on a chair, and doing pushups with your legs on the ground. They're polar opposites when it comes to difficulty.

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You can't relate doing pushups with your legs on a chair, and doing pushups with your legs on the ground. They're polar opposites when it comes to difficulty.

Yes.  And "girl" pushups are only useful if you have been hospitalized and immobile for a month.