Just found out I’ve been doing pushups wrong my whole life
Basically, I’ve been doing my pushups with my arms at a 90 degree angle from my torso so my body looks like a T. After doing 100-150 pushups twice a week for several weeks (started at 5 sets of 20 and worked my way up to 5 sets of 30) I was starting to wonder why my chest wasn’t getting any bigger or stronger, and payed attention to my form and comparing it to how other people do pushups. Apparently I’ve just been letting my delts do all the work this whole time.
I finally learned the correct way to do pushups in a way that works my pecs. I can only do ten now. I feel like I’m starting over from scratch here. I know I just need to grind them out ten at a time for a few months, but it’s still super demoralizing to go from being able to do 30 pushups to only 10.
Anyone else ever had similar fitness fails where they accidentally worked the wrong muscle?