This sounds a bit too sensible 
It’s the attention to detail which I have found most valuable. Slight adjustments in elbow position for example helped me along with my legs and feet.
When I started with PT, i dropped weight by 25% to concentrate on form for a good month, I’m now doing sets of 10 with 10% more weight than before. I’m at the point where I happy enough with what im doing and have no desire to lift more. Just keep up the activity in a safe way.
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That’s why it will work.
Long runs of success, hitting your rep count, before failure, I think are critical to sustaining improvements over longer cycles.
I’m a big fan of gradual fractional improvements, especially after the newbie neural gains have been and gone.
Is there a rep count where push ups go from strength to endurance ?
My weight was actually down slightly this morning- to 65kg from 66-67kg. Lowest I’ve weighed for a long time, so I suspect this means I am slowly losing weight. Dunno if that means I’m not eating enough for strength increase?
“According to one study, internal rotation of the hand position or full pronation of the forearm during push-ups led to greater posterior and varus forces on the elbow joints that could produce injurious shear force – proof that internally rotating your hands is bad for elbow health.”
What does this mean??
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Perfect.
A guy I trained a while back wanted help with his squat, which he said was 200kg (at 100kg bodyweight).
The first question was what do you want to achieve/ improve? He replied that he wanted to be able to lift more, to which I asked ‘but why?’
He said his goal was to have bigger thicker legs. Hmmm. The problem was he said he had a 200kg squat but he had pretty wiry thin legs tbh.
So we went to the gym and I asked him to demonstrate his squat so I could get a baseline of what 200kg meant in reality. He starts loading 200kg on the bar 
So after convincing him of the benefits of a warm up he goes for 100kg, and after one rep I stopped him.
I asked him to take off all the weight and show me his technique with just the Oly bar, and the first thing this guy does is look round to see if anyone is watching him Alarm bells!
Reluctantly he makes a half assed and half hearted attempt to squat, with the bar travelling all over the place and zero set up and tension in his body. I spent 45 mins teaching him how to squat properly with the bar only and he was still making basic errors (not listening, not wanting to learn being foremost). At the end he said he really wanted to put some weight on the bars and get a workout so I put 30kg on the bar making 50kg overall - his face was a picture! I asked him to show me he could now squat safely and with purpose. To which he managed 5 pretty ropey reps before racking the bar and wobbling all over the place with his legs like jelly!
It didn’t help that a few people in the gym came over and watched and listened whilst I was trying to teach him the set up and technique, because that just made him more self conscious and aware that he was caught between his ego and his ambitions.
Despite a powerlifter in the gym who I had previously helped with his lifts wading in to convince him to stick with it and that this was the right approach, the guy said it wasn’t for him.
As a post-script I saw him a few months later squatting 200kg. He racked up, got under the bar, exhaled deeply a few times, stepped back and then bent at the knee moving his ass no more than 3 inches downwards before jerking his hips forward and slamming the bar back on the rack pins. Lots of slapping his face and grunting post this amazing 1 rep max achievement 
True Story 
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That is not the best damn push ups article, period 
Basically what he’s saying is that variations that have the hands rotated towards the centre line of the body, like close grip triangle hands etc put greater stress on the elbow and surrounding muscles, but it doesn’t say where the shear force is acting?
Lots of stuff about variations and some technique stuff but not enough to actually tell you how to do a perfect press up.
starting with index finger facing forward and trying to twist your hands outwards should put arm in the correct/safe position and stop the forearm pronating?
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Dunno, I only ever have hands pointing straight up.
Did the kettlebell workout but in addition to the deadlifts, cleans etc… I did full KB swings instead of the chest loaded version. That made it a lot harder! 1 min 30 sec rest between sets, can’t remember what I did last time.
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Just trained legs and my quads have never felt so heavy after a session.
Vision started going on the last rep of the first working set of squats.
Was a long session as I had to have loads of rest between sets. Still, I improved.
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I think an easier week next week would be a good idea. Probably drop KB workout and just do one core day
I’m going to do a push workout today and a pull workout tomorrow, with weights.
Next week I’ll do some of the bodyweight stuff, as much as I can to start. Hopefully that will hit my core well.
Managed 5x 10 push up this morning, and did this workout at lunchtime
3 rounds with 60 secs rest. The single leg deadlift was the only one that was challenging at all, really. Which is a good sign that I’ve laid decent foundations, I think.
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First run for a couple of months - oof 
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Did the bodyweight workout again followed by push ups 5 sets of 10 with energy to spare on the 5th set so did 12
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I’ve just been going as many press-ups as I can each morning this week. Some were sets of 20, some 10 and some 5. Did 60 on Monday, 40 yesterday and 70 today.
Tried chins on the doorframe but can only manage 3 at a time as it’s on fingers really.
I’m thinking of getting a pull up mate if I can use it in the house as I’ll do this stuff more often if I don’t have to go out into the garage (lazy I know):
https://www.pullupmate.co.uk/free-standing-pull-up-frame.html
5 sets of 11 today, although I felt like I was doing them faster (but form felt good). Last couple on set 5 were tough, but I didn’t feel like form broke down.
I feel like now’s the right time to start working on chin/ pull ups. I did a couple yesterday (chin ups) and they felt better than they ever have. I’ll try tomorrow and see how many I can do max (prob 3 or 4)
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