What, Me Exercise?: The Hacker Exercise Regime

Re:What, Me Exercise?: The Hacker Exercise Regime by zackattack on Tuesday June 22, 2010 @06:37PM (#1453457)

I completely disagree. Doing as few as 30 pushups/day has resulted in dramatic increases in strength in addition to weight loss and NOTICEABLE tricep formation [i.e. other people commented on it]. This coming from a guy who worked out (off and on, but mostly on) from the end of senior year to senior year of college.

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Re:What, Me Exercise?: The Hacker Exercise Regime by wdewind on Tuesday June 22, 2010 @06:51PM (#1453494)

Noticeable tricep formation means nothing. Muscle size != muscle strength by any measure. It's also not hard to make your muscles pop for short periods of time. If you're doing it every day I wouldn't be shocked if the "gains" you were seeing were actually just daily swelling.

30 pushups vs. doing absolutely nothing, yes you will see small results. You will also cap out in < 3 weeks at what you can gain.

Not to be a dick but please do define dramatic.

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Re:What, Me Exercise?: The Hacker Exercise Regime by krakensden on Tuesday June 22, 2010 @08:48PM (#1453735)

Muscles are for show as well as function sir ;)

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Re:What, Me Exercise?: The Hacker Exercise Regime by yesimahuman on Wednesday June 23, 2010 @01:05PM (#1455482)

You would get even more noticeable size increase by doing push downs with a cable or skull crushers.

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