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On August 12 2008 03:31 GrandInquisitor wrote:http://hundredpushups.com/index.htmlIs anyone else interested in doing this with me? I'm at Rank 3 right now and I'm starting Week 1 - Day 1 today.
I have no idea why people care about pushups. Stick with bench press if you actually give a shit about your upper body.
Edit: Lol, I read the description where they say pushups are good for defining your abs. Hahaha 
-OakHill
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I guess cuz its easy to do whenever,no need for equipment.
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Can we make a thread, or if someone is knowledgeable, about a full workout routine with minimal equipment?
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On August 12 2008 05:20 naventus wrote:
Can we make a thread, or if someone is knowledgeable, about a full workout routine with minimal equipment?
something like that would be awesome
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What kind of workout routine exactly are you looking for naventus?
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Sure I'll do this. I'll start after work today. (about 6 hours)
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This sounds awesomel, i have to try it out.
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A problem with something like this is that someone with good strict pushup form can do 40 pushups, and someone with terrible form can do 100 pushups, and they both did the same amount of work.
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On August 12 2008 05:20 naventus wrote:
Can we make a thread, or if someone is knowledgeable, about a full workout routine with minimal equipment?
I will do that.
What do you want? something for building muscle mass? something for functional strength? do you want aerobic conditioning to be included?
Do you want something that tells you exactly what to do, with exact progressions, or something with a little more freedom of choice?
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If you think this is gonna make you any bigger, dont get your hopes up. It wont. If your able to do more then 20 reps of any kind of exercise it wont result in musclegrowth, only muscle endurance. exercises with your own bodyweight are only good for so long.
Other own bodyweight exercises are dips ( http://www.sebulba.de/training/uebungslehre/df081993e1086bf28.html ) and chin-ups.
If your able to do more then 15reps of one of these exercises you can also use a backpack and put books or weights in it.
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On August 12 2008 05:10 OakHill wrote:I have no idea why people care about pushups. Stick with bench press if you actually give a shit about your upper body. Edit: Lol, I read the description where they say pushups are good for defining your abs. Hahaha -OakHill
actually pushups are good for abs. if your abs aren't tense when you are doing them your form is wrong.
On August 12 2008 05:20 naventus wrote:
Can we make a thread, or if someone is knowledgeable, about a full workout routine with minimal equipment?
http://buzzfeed.com/scott/minimalist-workouts
you can't really mass gain without added weights though.
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On August 12 2008 06:12 tiffany wrote:
you can't really mass gain without added weights though.
not true !
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On August 12 2008 06:13 travis wrote:Show nested quote +On August 12 2008 06:12 tiffany wrote:
you can't really mass gain without added weights though. not true !
on the contrary, that is true. hypertrophie(musclegrowth) happens at a rep range between 5-20. Not saying that 4 or 21 reps wont result in musclegrowth, its actually more about the time under tension(tut), meaning the time you need to finish 1 set. it is commonly accepted that a tut of 30 seconds or less results in more maximal strenth, a tut of 30-90 seconds results in musclegrowth, and a tut of 90 seconds or more will result in muscle endurance. so when your at the point when you can do pushups for more then 1 and half minutes at a time, it wont get you bigger muscles. Of course if its functional strenth that you want you shouldnt care about that, and just do as many as you can.
ps: i know alot about this stuff, ive been training at a gym since 12 years, participating in bench press tourneys and whatnot..
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this is a joke, if you wanna do 100 push ups, just buy the perfect push up. i can max around 57 perfect push ups, over 85 regular push ups.
edit: actually, its a good thing though. nothing better than a community full of buffed up starcraft players.
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On August 12 2008 06:26 Wurzelbrumpft wrote:Show nested quote +On August 12 2008 06:13 travis wrote:On August 12 2008 06:12 tiffany wrote:
you can't really mass gain without added weights though. not true ! on the contrary, that is true. hypertrophie(musclegrowth) happens at a rep range between 5-20. Not saying that 4 or 21 reps wont result in musclegrowth, its actually more about the time under tension(tut), meaning the time you need to finish 1 set. it is commonly accepted that a tut of 30 seconds or less results in more maximal strenth, a tut of 30-90 seconds results in musclegrowth, and a tut of 90 seconds or more will result in muscle endurance. so when your at the point when you can do pushups for more then 1 and half minutes at a time, it wont get you bigger muscles. Of course if its functional strenth that you want you shouldnt care about that, and just do as many as you can. ps: i know alot about this stuff, ive been training at a gym since 12 years, participating in bench press tourneys and whatnot..
ok well it isn't true. im writing my workout right now it will tell how to build muscle mass without weights. it is about leverage.
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hmm, I think I gonna have to do this. been looking for a decent workout guide for pushups. is there one like this for sit-ups?
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cloud: for sit ups, try this drill:
1 minute of crunches
1 minute oblique crunches left
1 minute oblique crunches right
1 minute of reverse crunches
1 minute thrust ups
1 minute bicycles
1 minute leg lifts/elevators
30 second holding the crunch position at a 30 degree angle
it'll suck the first few times, then it gets kinda easy. increase it to two sets, then 3, etc.
do each exercise nonstop and no rest in between
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if your now planning to do a few sets of these exercises a day, it will strengthen your whole body and make you might feel better. But even if you do it after the rules i wrote before, you wont get bigger. sorry if im destroying dreams here, but getting a muscular body, thats actually nice to look at, takes months and years and will require a lot more than pushups and more importantly a different life style, a proper diet, not the bullshit the world health organisation recommends( carbs are good, fat is bad), thats whats actually making america fat. and even then after months or years of training and actually getting some visible muscle, you will probably still look like crap. its all about genetics, most peoples developed muscles just look like crap, only a few will actually look symmetrical and be nice to look at.
But what most of you probably want is some model figure with a sixpack and if thats what you want, then the only thing you need is a diet, since a sixpack has nothing to do with your actual abdominal muscle, but only about your bodyfat percentage wich should be 11% or less to have a visible sixpack
@ travis: dude i don´t know where you get your information, or what experience you have to back up what your claiming here, but don´t tell people they will get muscular by doing pushups, thats just not gonna happen
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On August 12 2008 06:26 Wurzelbrumpft wrote:Show nested quote +On August 12 2008 06:13 travis wrote:On August 12 2008 06:12 tiffany wrote:
you can't really mass gain without added weights though. not true ! it is commonly accepted that a tut of 30 seconds or less results in more maximal strenth, a tut of 30-90 seconds results in musclegrowth, and a tut of 90 seconds or more will result in muscle endurance.
Unless you can link to a source, I gotta think that's wrong. Almost all the hypertrophy routines I've read about have between 3 and 6 reps per set and were not slow up or slow down sets, so they are all shorter than 30 seconds in duration. Granted, the extreme end of most strength routines are below that, at 1-3 reps for some of the sets, but I still don't think time of set is a serious factor. I believe the primary determinant of hypertrophy vs strength (along with #reps/set) is time BETWEEN sets. Hypertrophy routines are usually in the middle with 45-90 seconds between sets. Circuit routines (endurance) can have less than that (or just more reps), and strength routines more than that.
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