Re: Strength

[Guest guest]

Pushups are very good for building strength. There are

others here better qualified to give you a detailed

explanation on them but, for information, simply type

in the keyword pushup in your browser bar for lots of

sites. Here is one of those that you might find

interesting:

http://www.gettingfit.com/pushups.html

Rich

bwbeliever

P.S. Those are some good resolutions you mentioned.

--- bullworkeruser wrote:

> hi all, i was wondering if pushups build alot of

> strength? along with

> situps and squats or is that just muscular

> endurance?

>

>

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[Guest guest]

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> hi all, i was wondering if pushups build

> alot of strength? along with situps and squats

> or is that just muscular endurance?

At some point, any exercise builds strength. For

continued progress, though, one needs progressive

resistance. For the exercises you mentioned, this

usually means adding repetitions.

There are those who say that beyond 10 repetitions,

endurance is developed, more than strength. So they

recommend adding resistance (like weights) if one

can do 10 to 15 reps of an exercise. Still, if one

does not add weight/resistance, increasing the number

of reps -- doing them to (near) falilure -- will

still be a form of progressive resistance and there

will be an increase in strength as well as endurance.

Then again, why only go for one and not the other?

What use is strength if one cannot last? This is a

point pushed by Furey, who advocates body weight

exercises like the Hindu push up, Hindu squat,

and bridge, the reps for the first two reaching the

hundreds. And he enjoys pointing out how even bulky

and muscular body builders could hardly go beyond

25 Hindu push ups or 50 Hindu squats. (In a way, I

see this reminiscent of courses like Atlas' Dynamic

Tension.)

Gerry