Working out, yet I still find push ups much harder than dips

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I follow a rule of 3 work out.

So per day, 3 different exercises each repeated 3 times.

I work out for 6 days, then I rest for 3 days.

So it looks about like this. In one day:
Dips exercise 3x
Push ups exercise 3x
Lifting 3x

But the results were very strange from  start. For example, from the very start, I struggled to do even 1 push up while being able to do 5 to 10 dips.

Now I can do about 12 push ups, and up to 30 dips, sometimes even over 40 dips.

However, this isnt normal. All sources on internet say that you are supposed to be able to do more push ups than dips. I have found few people online saying they have this same issue.

For me, the only explanation I can come up with is that either push ups put more pressure on some muscles, either same muscles perform different when in different position.

I find this situation kinda silly because people are mostly saying that dips are difficult, but I find dips kinda easy. I find plank, push ups and lifting very difficult and exhausting, but dips are like the easiest exercise for me.
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My other explanation is that my wrists are kinda weak, and push ups put lots of pressure on wrists.
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OMG, are you Karlos Nasar?

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OMG, are you Karlos Nasar?
I cant lift 200 kilograms, at least not above my head. I would have to take some serious supplements to achieve that. Thats insane strength.
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I can do more dips than pushups. I thought it was normal
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I dont know. All I know is that I very quickly progressed on dips, but very slowly on push ups. I feel like it will take me another 2 months to be able to do 20 push ups.
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If you can do 5 sets of 20 than you need to make them harder with plyrometrics. If you are not there yet and your numbers are too small than girl pushups but honestly my next post will be a program that will help you if you want something specific.
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Here it is. Time to become a man

https://thalliatree.wordpress.com/2018/01/13/evil-russian-pushup-program/
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Only people without jobs could actually do the program otherwise I would have given you a different program
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I don't lift or do calisthenics at all. But on a very good day I can manage 4 miles straight on the treadmill.

Fittest I've ever been in my life. When I'm older I may pine for my youth, but not for the athleticism of my youth. Whatever my potential in high school or college was, I never realized it and I have no real idea what that might've looked like. If I can hit 40 and still be doing more than I was then, that should soften the blow of aging.
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Thing is BK.

Push ups, dips and lifting are strenuous and might improve muscle tone, but offer little in the way of general cardiovascular fitness, hence why you find your routine exhausting.

4 miles on the treadmill everyday with Swagnarok would be more beneficial.

Though as someone who has exercised quite enthusiastically all their life, at 65 I'm finding that the blows to my leg joints were perhaps not soft enough.

Swimming 4 miles per day would be better in this respect...Probably the best overall workout you can do.
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Thats kinda too difficult and way different from my program. If I followed that, I would have to do 5 push ups every hour, which amounts to 50 push ups per day in total. Right now I do about 30 push ups per day, usually about 10 per each exercise, and 3 exercises per day. The program which you are suggesting has no rest time. All it would achieve would be huge weight loss, and then of course you can do more push ups after because you weight less lol
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Push ups, dips and lifting are strenuous and might improve muscle tone, but offer little in the way of general cardiovascular fitness, hence why you find your routine exhausting.
Muscles are desirable, yes.
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@Swagnarok
 I can manage 4 miles straight on the treadmill.
I cant even walk 4 miles.

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 I can manage 4 miles straight on the treadmill.
I cant even walk 4 miles
Try running the treadmill without stepping on it.
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OKBK.

Muscles are useful.

Though cosmetic muscles are unnecessary.

Muscle tone is best improved by a general cardiovascular routine.

Once again, swimming is perhaps the best whole body workout.


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I would comment but I have never seen you do a dip or a push up. Range of motion is everything.
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I would comment but I have never seen you do a dip or a push up. Range of motion is everything.
Now you want to be in the same gym as him.
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Ya, that's it, intellectual genius.
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Ya, that's it, intellectual genius.
Common sense sometimes beats AI.

15 days later

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Dont bother with calisthenics until you are truly strong. Stick to the dumbells and machines for now.
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Dont bother with calisthenics until you are truly strong. Stick to the dumbells and machines for now.
Sometimes the gym is empty of dumbbells. What is a substitute?
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I am blocking you as you are a consistent troll.
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I am blocking you as you are a consistent troll.
You have been around for less than a month, Ratman.
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Ratman.
Ratman was around previously.

Similarly entitled.


The thing with blocking, is the blockers ability to ignore, rather than an inability of the blocked to post a comment.
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Ratman was around previously.

Similarly entitled.


The thing with blocking, is the blockers ability to ignore, rather than an inability of the blocked to post a comment.
It is the opposite. The blocked has the ability to ignore and continue to post comments…while the blocker sees the posted comments he had hoped to block.
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So just say you were happy to be blocked.
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So just say you were happy to be blocked.
I am happy my posts are not blocked and can be read by all.
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That's what I said.

Blocking is little more than a futile protest.