I can do a large amount of sit ups but i cant do pushups or pullups worth a crap. How can i improve both of those with situps?
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By doing pushups and pullup between your sets of situps.
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That is a common problem. Both exercises are not done that often through out your day. Here are some things that will help you. For your push ups you might want to try doing as many as you can. Then take that number and subtract 5 from it. How many ever reps that is do 3 sets of that number every day for a week. Then go up one number until your able to do 3 sets of the original max about of push ups you could do. Then you would do another max set of push-ups and start the process over every week. As for Pull ups those can be hard for anyone that does not upper back muscles and there shoulders. I would suggest getting a work out rubber band. I use jump stretch bands. you can order them from jumpstretch.com they are great to loop on a pull up bar and put your knee in one end and let the rubber band take some of the weight off and spring you back up to the bar. Also for push ups you can try standing up leaning on the wall or a table and work your way lower.
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You can't with situps. They exercise different muscles - you might as well ask "how can I build my arms by exercising my legs....?" Pushups can be done from your knees instead of toes to begin with - when you're able to do 20 pushups from your knees, time to start doing them from your toes. Pullups - you'll probably need to do lateral pulldowns at a gym in order to build the necessary strength to do pullups.
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Sorry - comments aren't working so I have to write another answer... Lateral Pulldowns are the machine in a gym where you sit on a seat, hook your knees under pads, grab a horizontal bar over your head with both arms and pull it down to your chest. The bar is attached to weights by a cable and pulleys... It exercises the same muscle groups as pull-ups (ie: upper back and biceps).
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