You Don't Need to Exercise for Hours a Week to Look and Feel Better

Re:You Don't Need to Exercise for Hours a Week to Look and F... by everdev on Monday January 21, 2019 @12:34AM (#18957895)

Keep in mind that only doing pushing exercises can lead to muscular imbalances.

You can create a more balanced body by doing pulling exercises like pullups or body rows in the same quantity as your pushups.

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Re:You Don't Need to Exercise for Hours a Week to Look and F... by azhenley on Monday January 21, 2019 @12:39AM (#18957917)

Too many people overlook this! I suggest alternating between push and pull days.

And don’t forget the cardio.

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Re:You Don't Need to Exercise for Hours a Week to Look and F... by newnewpdro on Monday January 21, 2019 @01:29AM (#18958131)

After a couple years of daily pushups, the maxreps should be over 100 and it much more closely resembles a quick cardio burst than anything resembling strength-training.

I do > 160 in a regular set after over a decade of daily pushups, it's not really an issue.

Eventually I ended up adding handstand pushups to my daily routine to bring back something strenuous.

Edit:

Both of my wrists have been broken in the past. When I started this regimen it wasn't even possible to do 20 pushups without agonizing wrist pain. Those pains are a distant memory, they vanished completely around the one year mark. Thank you daily pushups.

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