I'll now try to add 10 on top of my regular 10 daily, every 4 days, and work to double that daily output.
10[edit]0k,buwaytress,30,330,2025-08-22
I am glad that you are actively monitoring your situation. That sounds like a possibly good change, as a way to work yourself into a higher output... and see how your body handles it.
From a personal perspective, I would attempt to be more gradual rather than doubling, even though your doubling is ONLY 1 day out of every 4.. but again, I am having some trouble understanding your physical limitations.. since many times with these pushups, we start out being very sore, but our body will build up a decently higher tolerance pretty fast. Your ailment, on the other hand, whether weight and/or weakness in muscles and/or joints seems to go a bit outside of my understanding.. since I personally have some difficulties considering how 10 reps per day (for example) could be a way to build, especially if they are full body pushups rather than modified pushups.
Yeah! There have been bright spots -- other than some weird but temporary twinges here and there I have not taken any permanent or painful pulls yet, and I like how the routine is setting in, now I'm doing the 5 atop the daily 10 on alternate days, I think soon i will be 15 a day, then I think I'll pile on the 5 like that for a bit.
The issue was with my shoulder joints. I suffered shoulder dislocations (both). One was severe trauma (it got ripped out) and also destroyed the nerve bundle completely. And so it has been 2 years of nerve growth and slowly gaining back control of shoulder, arm, and now wrist and fingers. I don't know how to explain but it is sort of retraining the brain to will the muscles back. Until I gain full control and feeling back on that entire arm/shoulder, it is unstable and there is a risk of reoccurence. I would really like that not to happen. But yes, I am considering more and more now how to accelerate everything.
My thinking is that more reps are needed in order to really get your whole body used to it.. so even something like working up to 5 reps 5 times a day.., even if they are all modified in the beginning. .and then maybe you work up to those 5/5 being full pushups or you mix them up in different ways.. .. so I have hard times imagining something like 10 reps per day to be enough to build on.
Yeah, I think the same actually, but I'm going overly cautious and trying to get the nerve rehab/recovery at the same time as the physical. So I'm going at it from safer and more varied angles until I get to a point I feel really, really confident that reoccurance is very low risk.
Not sure if I mentioned but I'm replacing two sessions at physio a week with light padel (it's perhaps only a fraction of the intensity of say tennis or badminton but it gives my shoulders a lot of movement and in a less boring way). And added a high incline treadmill workout every two days to help improve overall posture (and sort of get back into general fitness overall). The shoulder injuries are specific but the past 2 years have really affected me overall. Every part of the body has been set back. But the pushups are still, believe it or not, the most "difficult" part of all the regime!
P.S. Thank you very much for your "monitoring" and encouragement. I should learn to do the same more often here. Who else if not each other right?