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	Perfect Pushup
		Pushups are the oldest and most common exercises, and are used by militaries and competitive sports teams around the world to gauge overall fitness.
		Pushups put stress on wrists, elbows and shoulders, and prevent the natural rotation of muscles and joints.
		Perfect Pushup inventor and U.S. Navy SEAL, Alden Mills learned during his SEAL training, the more that exercises simulate the natural movement patterns of muscles and joints, the better the results and the less strain is put on the body.
	www.jumpusa.com /perfect_pushup.html (174 words)

	Article: Pushups! (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		The pushup is a tough and unforgiving exercise and, like any great classic, never really goes out of style.
		Pushups are a superb upper body exercise that use the body’s own weight to build a sound fitness foundation.
		To increase the intensity of pushups, add weights, which are placed on the middle of your back.
	umanitoba.fitdv.com /new/articles/article.html?artid=355 (594 words)

	Mistressing the pushup
		A one-arm pushup is a neat party trick, it looks cool and butch, and pushups in general have a wonderfully basic military flavour to them.
		Pushups are things they do in the army, or things you might remember from gym class years ago.
		Pushups train pretty much every "pushing" muscle in the upper body: shoulders, triceps, and pecs, along with lots of stabilizer involvement from the rest of the body.
	www.stumptuous.com /cms/displayarticle.php?aid=75 (1680 words)

	Lab 2 wu
		After a two minute acclimation period, the number of pushups the organism did was counted over a five minute period.
		The number of pushups performed by the stonefly organism over a five minute period varied from a low of six (DO: 8.5 ppm) to a high of 383 (DO: 4 ppm) (Table 1).
		Then, the pushup rate of this organism could be counted for the five minute period to determine if the stonefly exhibits the pushup behavior if the DO levels are not manipulated.
	it.stlawu.edu /~inverts/stonefly.html (1416 words)

	The Official Site of the Houston Texans (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		If they can’t continue the exercise in the conventional pushup position we have them drop to their knees to finish the set.
		By performing the pushup immediately after finishing the triceps extension, the chest and shoulders force the triceps to perform additional work in an already fatigued state.
		The power pushup (I previously described) is the most difficult way to perform a pushup.
	www.houstontexans.com /fitness/news_detail.php?PRKey=263 (1470 words)

	Jeff Drock - Pushup ... (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		Before trying these varieties of pushups, one should be able to perform at least 30-40 regular pushups in the one minute pushup test.
		Pushup #2 (Pushups with clap)-This is set up just like a regular pushup but it is actually a plyometric pushup that will require lots of power.
		These pushups are extremely stressful on the body and one can seriously injure themselves if any of these are performed incorrectly or if the body is not yet capable of performing these.
	www.juniortennis.com /Science/JeffDrock/Pushup.htm (669 words)

	Welcome to the Official Perfect Pushup Website - Get Strong, Get Ripped!
		The Perfect Pushup allows your arms to rotate naturally during the push up the same way they do when you throw a punch or press up a dumbbell.
		The Perfect Pushup employs the secrets of Functional Training to give you more benefits from every workout by using muscles the way nature intended.
		Functional Training has been used to train the elite U.S. Navy SEALs for years and is essential to their awesome success.
	www.perfectpushup.com (238 words)

	Power of the pushup
		However, in my experience the pushup is perhaps the most improperly performed bodyweight exercise seen in the fitness world today...yet one of the most beneficial for you when done correctly as stated above.
		I use pushups as one of my postural and movement assessments to screen for muscle imbalances and or weakness in all of my clients.
		If not, I start them in an up position and see if they are able to stabilize and hold this position, then descend their whole body towards the ground in a slow controlled manner and up again the same way.
	functionalpower.com /exercises_pushup.html (367 words)

	The Perfect Pushup
		One female Army ROTC cadet increased her pushups from minimum standards of 20 to 40 in a two-week period.
		The common error in pushups is to place the hands too high when in the down position making it near impossible to lift yourself off the floor when performing a pushup.
		To take this proper pushup form training to the next level, I thought of developing a pushup mat with painted hand placement for the variety of pushups in my workouts demonstrating the proper placement of your hands.
	www.military.com /opinion/0,15202,79676,00.html (687 words)

	My pushup count
		My favorite pushups: 1, 66,666 (it’s a number of the beast thing), 100,000, 123,456, and 200,000 (I was gonna stop at 200,001 before I wrote this letter, but I was hot [DC is almost unbearable] and confused and did an extra pushup which got me to 200,002).
		Humbling note: Recently on NPR (where else) there was a story of a guy who set the new world record of pushups in one hour (see, I’m not the only freak).
		Final note: Were I able to do 3,669 pushups per hour then, with the hours I’ve logged, I’d have done by now about 3,095,718 pushups.
	www.illuschoen.net /pushup/pushup.htm (408 words)

	Thoughts : The Lowly Pushup (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		My body is still sore from the situps and pushups I did a couple of days ago.
		Nothing special about my regimen, just do steady training until my body is conditioned to do sixty consecutive pushups in two minutes, and sixty consecutive situps in the same amount of time.
		Pushups - this is one of the most balanced strength and body exercises you can do.
	weblogs.asp.net /robtwister/archive/2005/01/05/347414.aspx (485 words)

	http://www.circularstrengthmag.com/42/sonnon1.html (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		The screwing pushup is done by performing an alternating inward rotation of the forearm to full extension.
		This spiralling movement slings the tension that is generated along a long line of myofascia, rather than isolating it to a localized area.
		The force of this movement is not like the simple pushup, which has a constant velocity.
	www.circularstrengthmag.com /42/sonnon5.html (1108 words)

	Altus Athletic :: Push-Up Stands
		Place the pushup stands vertically two to three inches apart at chest level.
		Place the pushup stands vertically at least six inches to a foot wider than shoulder-width apart at chest level.
		Place pushup stands together at chest level, with each slanting inward to make a triangle at the top (pointing away from your body).
	www.altusathletic.com /exercise_wallchart.asp?exercisecat_id=43 (1083 words)

	Super Strength From One Pushup - Health and Fitness Articles by Matt Furey
		Had a guy email to ask if he could get stronger doing "one pushup per day." Well, the answer to this question may surprise you.
		Truth is there are many people who have let themselves go for so long that doing one pushup is a current impossibility.
		Answer is simple: Get into the top or midway position of the pushup and hold as long as you can.
	www.mattfurey.com /super_strength_pushup_021305.html (1413 words)

	Discover the Wisdom of Mankind on pushup (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		See thousands more videos at http://video.expertvillage.comLearn how to perform a wall pushup in this video of one in a series at Expertvillage.com.
		A press up (North American English: push up) is a common strength training exercise performed while lying horizontal and face down, raising and lowering using the arms.
		These two variations are intended to put greater emphasis on the tricep muscles rather than the shoulder and chest muscles.
	www.blinkbits.com /blinks/pushup (757 words)

	Martial Arts Planet - The Pushup Challenge
		Jeff Burger challenged people to have profound changes to their 1 set best in pushups within the period of 2-3 months (verify if wrong).
		People are getting hurt not from experimenting, but because of either bad form in their pushups or overtraining, like performing other exercises along with the pushup challenge.
		Regular pushups are tax endurance, and the method is basically meant for the body to be able to cope with such tress.
	www.martialartsplanet.com /forums/showthread.php?t=7588 (661 words)

	Bronze Bow Publishing :: View topic - Pushup handles: Recommendations?? (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		Another idea, just for pushups cut two short sections of 3" or more PVC and use them on the floor.
		They are very sturdy and you can do a burnout set of shoulder presses when you are immediately done with the pushups (if you are so inclined).
		Incidentally if you have the old fashioned dumbbells you can do an incredibly difficult chest exercise where you do a flye while you are in the push up position and the dumbbells move in and out as if you had an ab wheel in either hand.
	www.bronzebowpublishing.com /forum/viewtopic.php?t=2870 (1376 words)

	Matt Furey Power Pushup 2
		Prior to training with the Power Pushup 2, I had persistent and nagging shoulder pain from an injury to my rotator cuff.
		Doing pushups often felt like I was aggravating the injury.
		When doing pushups and presses with the Power Pushup 2, all the stabilizing muscles of the shoulder shake like leaves blowing in the wind.
	www.mattfurey.com /powerpushup2.html (830 words)

	Hindu Pushup Directory - Hindu Pushup News (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		While in high school I heard about a unique pushup that was used in india by champion wrestlers.
		Dive bomber pushups the dive bomber pushup is often confused with the dand or hindu pushup.
		Hindu pushups are an exercise that have programs, is the same as the hindu pushup.
	www.religionspot.com /hindu-pushup.html (1346 words)

	Crossfit.com discussion board: Pushup - 1 min record
		the Guiness World Record for the maximum # of pushups in one minute is 157.
		However, the pushups were not exactly the full-ranging chest to floor, but were the variety where the chest just-barely broke the plane at the elbow.
		Not sure why anyone would want to do that type of pushup.
	www.crossfit.com /cgi-bin/discus/show.cgi?tpc=22&post=33888 (289 words)

	Amazon.com: pushup (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		No one has created a list or guide tagged "pushup" yet.
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	www.amazon.com /tag/pushup (98 words)

	Tvindy: The Pushup Project (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		If I start out on January 1st, 2004 by doing one pushup and build up at a steady rate so that I finish the year on December 31st by doing 1000, that's a thousandfold increase.
		It shouldn't be too painful, since I will spend a year building up to 1000 pushups, and even then, it shouldn't take more than a half hour to complete them (at 1.8 seconds per pushup).
		And doing pushups everyday will not hurt you because by the time your capable of doing the 100+ youll be really fit, considering you want to do them non-stop.
	tvindy.typepad.com /tvindy/2003/11/the_pushup_proj.html (1592 words)

	BODY BY FISH
		The Dive-Bomber Pushup is often confused with the Dand or Hindu Pushup.
		Keeping your hips close to the ground and your hands directly beneath your shoulders, drive your head up towards the sky until you are looking straight ahead.
		If I were performing Dands (or Hindu Pushups), I would simply keep my arms straight and drive my hips back to position 1 in photo 1 and begin the series again.
	www.trainforstrength.com /ex-1.shtml (276 words)

	power pushup 2 - Kung Fu Magazine Forums (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		The regular pushup is not just for building muscle, it's a cardio workout too that burns fat.
		The reason pushups don't work to add much strength or mass is because once you can do more than 10-15 you're not really building anything other than endurance for that movement.
		I tried doing some pushups with a band like that once and it kept rubbing against and burning my forearms.
	ezine.kungfumagazine.com /forum/showthread.php?t=19977 (714 words)

	thebackpacker.com - trail talk - pushup, underwire, athletic, or braless ?
		I do ask a bit tongue in cheek, but I would be interested how to advise a certain ladyfriend on this issue.
		Now, let us sit on our thumbs and listen to the women talk about their breasts.
		I'll start a new thread and say in the title that no males will be lurking to hear about "women's secrets and or victoria's secret" Then we can lurk anyway.
	www.thebackpacker.com /trailtalk/thread/6936,-1.php (1419 words)

	Hard Fitness Online Magazine Issue #13 - Diana Crandall
		Another idea is to do a pushup, touch elbow and knee together then pushup and do it again on another side.
		Hinge with legs out is done like a regular pushup but feet together and at the down phase your elbows bend toward the body to touch the ground - while that happens your feet split out with a hop, then back in when the elbows return.
		Some girls start with their feet far apart to learn and get stronger, which is fine but you must slowly work them closer so that by routine time your strength shows and you don't look like you're cheating with your feet too far apart.
	www.hardfitness.com /emagazine/issue13/linda2.html (1017 words)

	Crossfit.com discussion board: Building Pushup Numbers...
		I'd just disappear for a few minutes and hit the locker room for some pushups or pistols then back to work.
		Here's a Russian idea: think in terms of a block of time (2 weeks, a month) and try to see how many pushups you can do in that over that time period.
		this is a very different approach to maxing out on pushups for a few sets a few times a week.
	www.crossfit.com /cgi-bin/discus/show.cgi?tpc=21&post=33923 (1146 words)

	Lifeline USA - Power Pushup - 2 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		One of the most innovative products ever created that takes the basic pushup and makes it the most incredible natural developer for strength and power since the bench press.
		Add from 20 to 300 pounds to pushups, dips, rear deltoid flys, lunges and more.
		The Power Pushup 2 is used by professional athletes as well as regular Joes everywhere.
	www.lifelineusa.com /products.cfm?categoryid=4&productid=12 (270 words)

	Pushup's (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		I read that your CNS eventually makes the movement more efficient with high volumes of pushups, so I wouldnt figure that you are gaining maximal strength, just endurance.
		I stress that the road to the top is a long one that takes years to realize.
		If you did something like clap pushups or 1-arm pushups that might be another story.
	www.elitetrack.com /main/component/option,com_smf/Itemid,45/topic,3277.0 (279 words)

	Ballpoint Wren » This is a pushup (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		This is what I see when a bulldog tries to help me do a pushup.
		This is what happens when I tell the bulldog I don't want his help with pushups.
		This is the bulldog showing me he can do pushups better than I can.
	www.bonniewren.com /2006/this-is-a-pushup.htm (371 words)

	Pushup question - World Fitness.com (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		21 pushups in a min, but every time I try to do one, I can't seem to lift the lower half of my body off the floor..
		I can do "girlie" pushups like there is no tomorrow, and if I try really hard, I can do "real" pushups..
		I just (10 min ago) did 3 reps of 15, which I was very surprised I could do..
	www.fitness.com /forum/showthread.php?t=1013 (452 words)

	Flickr: Photos tagged with pushup
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	www.flickr.com /photos/tags/pushup (112 words)

	Navy SEALs.com - Articles: Viewing Article
		25-50% increases in their pushups scores going from 50 to 75 pushups in many
		Pullups, 200 pushups, 200 dips, 500 situps or crunches.
		I found that each set we were able to place the pushup bars in different holes
	www.navyseals.com /community/articles/article.cfm?id=9148 (624 words)

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