Quote from: buwaytress on August 26, 2025, 04:32:18 PM

Quote from: JayJuanGee on August 23, 2025, 07:00:11 PM

Quote from: buwaytress on August 22, 2025, 05:42:06 PM

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.

Quote from: JayJuanGee on August 23, 2025, 07:00:11 PM

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?

Sometimes some variation of a story will resonate, and perhaps you had put in a bit of a mystery component into your story that triggered me into pondering how any normal person (even if he might have some issues) might get caught into a pattern in which 10 pushups a day ends up being a max over a long period of time and/or a sticking point, even though you had said that pushups were something that you were newly adding into your daily routine, yet at the same time that you were wanting to do more of them in the longer run.

Your further explanation helps to show part of the dilemma and the reasons that you have to ongoingly be careful not to overdo it, and so maybe in some sense, you cannot exactly know in advance how you might progress in your physicality, yet you know that if you cause yourself some kind of an injury, then you might get set back so that you cannot even do what you had been doing previously (or what you had worked yourself up to), so there surely tends to be aversions to further injury, whether those injuries might be a kind of chronic injury or maybe an injury that comes about in a more acute kind of a way.. .

Neither kind of injury is good, even though the chronic injury might be one that can be worked around.. so I have some ongoing and increasing toe (feet) pains, shoulders and shoulder blades, yet I don't consider any of them to be at a point of chronic injury, but the feet pains are aggravating, and I attempt to mitigate by putting down pillows for my feet, and I usually use a towel for my wrists too.. but yeah daily grueling and a kind of ongoing monitoring to consider if any additional mitigating measures might be helpful.

Another thing is that even though there can be quite a few negative ramifications that come from injury and/or illness (in your case seemingly injury, even though sometimes aging can seem like a kind of illness if we do not build ourselves then the aging process might take away some of our abilities to strengthen and/or build in certain areas). In your case, some of the positive that might come from your having had injured yourself, even though you would not have had wished yourself into such a situation, helps you to create goals and to be serious about attempting to achieve the goals (as long as you don't end up injuring or re-injuring yourself).

I know that some folks might have trainers and coaches and therapists and doctors, yet you are also your best advocate in terms of deciding the balance.. and also sometimes having to pick yourself up and to do what you consider to be your daily routine - the extent to which any of your other activities are complementing your pushups or taking away from your ability to do pushups.

I have found some of my activities to really help to get me to another level during the periods that I was trying to get to another level, yet at the same time, there may well be realizations that some places are maintenance and other places are building, and it is up to each of us if we would like to be in a maintenance or a building up place.

Another place that we could get to is a deterioration place, which I consider to be my own current place if I stop doing my pushups, so even if I am not currently building, I figure that my ongoing attempts to stay in maintenance phase helps to lessen my chances of falling into a deterioration phase.

Nice to hear your progress and your periodically rotating in higher quantities of pushups and mixing it up a bit with seemingly complementary exercises, and yes.. hoping that whatever you do, you do not end up injuring yourself in either a chronic way or an acute way..

Edit: Added pushup report.

100k,JayJuanGee,569,124615,2025-08-26