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So I am still working on my push-ups since I am now doing a USAR APFT instead of a USMC one with pull-ups. It's annoying to undue eight or so years of doing one thing. Alas I must maintain my beginners mind if I wish to grow.
I have been doing the deck of cards routine with some time constraints added in. It's great to do in the evenings while decompressing from work / watching the news etc.
Take a deck of cards and treat it like you're playing Blackjack. Aces can be 1 or 11 but in my case they are 11.
Turn up a card and do that many push-ups.
Wait one minute.
Repeat.
Once you can get through the entire deck doing one minute between cards shorten the time between cards to 45 seconds, then 30 seconds, then 15 seconds etc.
This has been a great routine to help me build a base for my APFT.
The deck of cards can also be used for other exercises. When I was in Africa we would go through the deck with no rest between doing first card pull-ups, second card abs, third card push-ups, fourth card abs. It was challenging and fun.
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-Stanley White
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