Push Ups, Pain in elbows Options

[Jerico Drum]

When I do push ups the areas where I am supposed to feel it I don't, I only feel it in my elbows and shoulder joints. Can anyone tell me what I am doing wrong?

[show_me]

Everything, thats why you feel pain in your elbows. rofl

[Jerico Drum]

Well whats weird is that I used to do push ups all the time, in fact it was something I took pride in. But I stopped when y girlfriend got pregnant. That was about a year and a half ago. I am starting to work out again and a big part of my workout is push ups, but for some reason it hurts when I do it now. And not in the places it should!

[Laughsalot]

maybe you gained some extra pounds and you're it's been such a long time that your body's almost forgotton how to do it? just give it some time

[Die romantic]

^ What he/she said.

[mark0alot]

It would be easy if you told how many sets of pushups you do.

[Die romantic]

Yea, how many have you been doing when your elbows weren't hurting and how many can you do now until they hurt?

I used to been able to do 3 sets of 35s then I stopped, then tried it and I could only do 1 set of 30, I started doing 3 sets of 10s, then more, and now I'm up doing 5 sets of 35 without any problem. Try that, take it slow.