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ArjinFerman  Tinfoil Gigachad  4d ago (text post)   241 thread views

Tinker Tuesday for February 18, 2025

This thread is for anyone working on personal projects to share their progress, and hold themselves somewhat accountable to a group of peers.

Post your project, your progress from last week, and what you hope to accomplish this week.

If you want to be pinged with a reminder asking about your project, let me know, and I'll harass you each week until you cancel the service

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Do Pushups Post

Pushups from 18 to 21.

Pullups stay the same. 7. With an added focus on chinups for biceps. Using limited range of movement, not pulling too far up so the tension stays on the bicep.

Note on pushup form: Stand upright, put your hands in front of you mimicking a pushup. Instead of going straight, back and forth, push your arms up as you push them outwards. If you put pressure 'up' as you're doing the pushup you get much better upper chest activation. Makes pushups a real joy.

Never tried that, might have to incorporate that into the many pushup variants I am familiar with. My favorites include:

Archer pushups - pushups where the torso is biased towards one side, to put more weight on each side of the chest. Decline pushups - feet are propped up on an elevated surface, putting more weight on the upper body Diamond/kettlebell pushups - place a kettlebell in front of you and do pushups with your hands on it, really works the center chest.

Once you start getting to 40+ pushups at once, the variants start making things interesting!

Edit: I think the parent post was supposed to be on the Wellness Wednesday thread

Seems to belong there.

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