Is It Alright To Do Push Ups Everyday If You Also Go To The Gym Three Times A Week And Lift
Push Ups
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Why don't you just make pushups part of your workout program inside the gym? Just have a buddy add some weight to your back and it's better than bench pressing
No way is it better than bench pressing
. You cant get the ammount of load safely on your back that you need to do get the same chronic effects as training with bench press. By the time you can do 20 pushups its starting to get in effective for building muscle mass. You need bench.No way is it better than bench pressing
Eh, I disagree. You don't necessarily have to put weights on your back, but you could buy a weighted vest and/or put your hands on something elevated so your body goes down deeper.
Or just put the weights on your back or a weighted vest and do a 1 armed pushup.
There's always ways to get the same workout without weights
I think the real point of his question is "is there any benefit to do pushups every day on top of weight training 3 times a week?"
I think you'll get worse recovery and less muscle growth by doing it. From a body building standpoint it's counterproductive or at best pointless.
If you're training for athletic performance it might be a different case.
I think you'll get worse recovery and less muscle growth by doing it. From a body building standpoint it's counterproductive or at best pointless.
If you're training for athletic performance it might be a different case.
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Well, that would all depend on how many pushups he's doing.
Doing them the day after working out would definitely help in recovery, as long as he just does them lightly to get a little blood flowing to the muscle.
I've always been a fan of very light workouts when I'm extremely sore because it helps more blood (and therefore nutrients and protein) get to the muscle to help in recovery
Doing them the day after working out would definitely help in recovery, as long as he just does them lightly to get a little blood flowing to the muscle.
I've always been a fan of very light workouts when I'm extremely sore because it helps more blood (and therefore nutrients and protein) get to the muscle to help in recovery
The only chest exercise i do is pushups, i started 3-4 months ago and do them daily, 3 sets of 20 and try to do dicline/incline every other day as well.
I have noticed nothing but MAJOR improvements in my chest, my chest is pretty much built and hard as a brick ( with alittle fat covering it, not completely toned ) thanks to good 'ol pushups.
Thanks for your advice, but i'll stick to personal experience
If you want to do pushups everyday go at it.
you are attributing your brick hard chest to doing 3x20 pushups every day?
what works for one person, may not(probably wont in this case) work for another.
i would not recommend daily pushups for chest hypertrophy.
what works for one person, may not(probably wont in this case) work for another.
i would not recommend daily pushups for chest hypertrophy.
Well i dont see any other way my chest could have improved so much...but your right..if it worked for me doesnt mean it will work for others
yea; im glad you got good results from pushups :]
but the method you used to achieve your results is not anywhere near optimal in the world of hypertrophic training.
so i will not recommend it for other trainees
but the method you used to achieve your results is not anywhere near optimal in the world of hypertrophic training.
so i will not recommend it for other trainees
I agree, pushups aren't good for hypertrophy
However, like I mentioned earlier, that's only with regular pushups.
Weighted pushups, 1 armed, etc., in my opinion, can bring just as much hypertrophy as benching. All your muscles can feel is load, they don't know HOW you're doing it.
If 10 of whatever type of pushup is all you can do, you'll see just as much muscle growth as if you're bench pressing or any other chest exercise.
However, like I mentioned earlier, that's only with regular pushups.
Weighted pushups, 1 armed, etc., in my opinion, can bring just as much hypertrophy as benching. All your muscles can feel is load, they don't know HOW you're doing it.
If 10 of whatever type of pushup is all you can do, you'll see just as much muscle growth as if you're bench pressing or any other chest exercise.
Pushups(regular on the floor and three chair) are all I did for my chest while bulking and I have a pretty huge chest, if I do say so myself lol.Reeveso is spot on in saying that your body only knows that you're pushing a load, not how you're pushing it.I think that as long as you do squats or deads first then pushups you'll get the same kind of growth as you would if you benched after.
Plyometric pushups (you know the clappy ones) are pretty sweet.
There is also a variation I did when lifting to prepare for shotput. You need 4 45lb. plates, and stack two on top of eachother. Put the edges of them right at about where your ahdns would be for a normal pushup, kind of like increasing the distance you can go down, and leave a gap int he middle. Do a diamond (closed grip) pushup, and push yourself up far enouhg to land with your hands on the 45 pound plates, and then push up again and land in diamond pushup form.
Personally, I do various horizontal presses with free weights to build the chest, pushups are warmup.
There is also a variation I did when lifting to prepare for shotput. You need 4 45lb. plates, and stack two on top of eachother. Put the edges of them right at about where your ahdns would be for a normal pushup, kind of like increasing the distance you can go down, and leave a gap int he middle. Do a diamond (closed grip) pushup, and push yourself up far enouhg to land with your hands on the 45 pound plates, and then push up again and land in diamond pushup form.
Personally, I do various horizontal presses with free weights to build the chest, pushups are warmup.
Yea, good point about the squats/deads
Pretty much anything that's going to release a lot of HGH/testosterone in your bloodstream.
Spidey - I have to admit I would say that you got lucky with genes. While I'm a huge advocate of bodyweight movements, I don't think the majority of people could build a nice chest w/ just regular pushups alone.
They're great for a lot of things, and especially for beginners, but after awhile most people need to progress onto harder variations of them to get them in the "hypertrophy" stage to build muscle.
You should count your blessings haha
Pretty much anything that's going to release a lot of HGH/testosterone in your bloodstream.
Spidey - I have to admit I would say that you got lucky with genes. While I'm a huge advocate of bodyweight movements, I don't think the majority of people could build a nice chest w/ just regular pushups alone.
They're great for a lot of things, and especially for beginners, but after awhile most people need to progress onto harder variations of them to get them in the "hypertrophy" stage to build muscle.
You should count your blessings haha
True reeveso, but I don't think one would need benching at all to build a good sized chest.Pushups and dips would be a fine alternative.Besides hypertrophy is 90% diet.But to each his own right?My diet and routine made me surpass my goals by the fourth month of my bulk, but the same thing probably wouldn't have worked as well with someone else so its all a matter of doing whatever benefits you the most.
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