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Originally Posted by Lou Schuler
Did you see my blog post yesterday, about push-ups? If little girls can do them (like my 9-year-old daughter, and the preteen soccer players I observed), adult women should be able to.
On a regulation push-up, you're pressing about 60 percent of your body weight. If you weigh 140 pounds, that's the equivalent of an 85-pound bench press, which doesn't strike me as unreasonable at all.
The workouts in NROL4W are tough for anybody. I found them challenging, and I experienced muscle growth where I wasn't used to it. (All those unusual lunge variations really hit my thighs, calves, and hips.) I'd been having some shoulder problems, which went away while I was doing Alwyn's workouts.
Strength is cool no matter your gender or age. And weakness isn't feminine -- it's debilitating. |
I felt like such a huge success when I was able to do my first set of "real" pushups (which was just a month ago!)!! Understanding that it is the equivalent of benching 102 pounds (I weigh ~170) now helps me understand why it was so difficult for me to get to that point!
Yesterday I completed Stage 2, Workout 3A and I said to my husband as I was leaving the gym, 'Dang, you know your workout is tough when the pushups are the
easy part!'
