lillian
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I'm taking it not next week, but the week after, and I'm having trouble with pull-ups and push-ups. I'm a runner, so I've never really trained for upper-body strength, and I've been trying to do a few more pull-ups and push-ups each day, but if there's another better way to train, I'd be happy to try!
I can only do one pull up, so if you can do a pull up...I don't have much advice from there.
But. Push ups, I can do. Bench press really low weight, high reps, lots of sets. Add more weight as you get better, but retain the number of reps. DO NOT overtrain your arms. It will set you back. Do sets of push ups to failure. If you can do 30, then do 30 as many times as your arms can handle. Another thing that works is trying to do 100 push ups in a row. Once your form starts falling apart, switch to "girl push ups" and finish off the 100. Make sure you rest enough, but on days you're training, drop down and do a few push ups throughout the day whenever you have the opportunity. You should make progress fairly quickly.