Can you do a press up and how old are you?

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I’m 55 and do an awesome plank. But my press-up is an apologetic little dip you’d hardly notice. I don’t know hoe you get better at it…

64, and I have done one press up, once, at a party in the 80s. I have no plans to do more.

43 and yes.

I can do 25 comfortably. But I work out a lot and do a lot of weight training and body weight exercises.

I can do 3 and am 38. A few years ago I could do 15 in one go but I've really let myself go exercise wise and I'm heavier than I want to be.

@ConcertaFirstTimer have you tried with a resistance band? It helped me as a progression

59, yes, sets of 20 full press ups before I start losing form. Press ups are apparently a movement in which inflexibility is an advantage, and I'm not at all flexible.

47 and yes. Also inflexible interestingly!

pull ups however are and always have been a completely different matter

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Much of the strength for press-ups comes from your back and triceps

Yes I can do 10 proper press-ups, it's a regular part of our karate class. I'm 60.

No, 38, but have a fucked shoulder.

50s. Never managed a press up. Forward roll was my limit. Ended up with a painful torticollis when an arsehole of a gym teacher bullied me into attempting a backwards roll. Turns out that I have rather unstable joints.

I can manage a couple then have to drop to my knees.
I’m 56. In my 40s I could do full press ups. It’s got a lot harder as I’ve gone through the menopause and gotten older.

58, yes. Planks, press-ups, weights, bench presses,

Dr told me I was obese a couple of years ago. I'm very fit (skiing, HiIT classes, tennis) and yet.....
I ignored dr and carry on regardless.

I could probably do 20 press ups....but I've never been able to do a sit up
I'm 46

Age 61 and can do 1 maybe 2.

Yes, 51

I l’m fat and unfit but can do planks and sit ups and lots of pilates moves, but have never been able to do press ups.

44 and yes but it took about a year of training to get off my knees and do it properly

62 , regular gym goer including lots of body pump.

My press-ups are dire. I can occasionally manage 3 or 4 in succession, but that’s rare. And I have never been able to do a narrow tricep push up.
But I could squat for Scotland.

In my mid 50’s and yes but that’s because I’ve exercised since young and never stopped doing them.

Late thirties and yes I can do many press-ups. It’s pull-ups that are a challenge for me.

I've never been able to do it... normal weight okay plank

Yes - several proper ones - body pump devotee.

I actually tried this morning did 5 this morning, havent done egym since before covid but swim la lot

36 and not even one, I'm hypermobile/very bendy though.

I can do lots of cool yoga moves at least.