everyday pushups, to often?

For various reasons, I have found it almost nesessary to work out 6-7 days a week. I always do the same workout. 4 sets of 40 pushups, 4 sets of 50 crunches, some back excercises, and 40 min. of hard cardio (all legs).

I have not noticed loss of stamina in my limbs. I know your supposed to let yourself recover before working out again. Maybe because my workouts are not to tough, my body can recover in a day. Does that make sense to anyone. I'd hate to do myself any harm, when I'm trying to do myself some good.

 

do you do different types of push ups? like wide armed, diamonds, incline, decline? maybe changing it up will work you more. to me, that sounds like a pretty easy going workout, but then considering i do go to a military college, i do push ups, crunches and situps, and running all the time, it should be pretty easy.

but its your body. your body will adapt to a change in routine.

 

If you do all of that constantly and it's not wearing you out.. It's too easy. Make it harder. I try to do ( at least when I'm not too lazy to work out) a hard enough work out I need like a day of rest every other day. Try doing incline pushups with higher inclines.. Or incline diamonds, etc.. Or add weight if you need to.

 

I'm pretty happy with my workout, and I'm happy with the results. I was just curious if doing the same thing everyday, no matter how easy it is, would be somehow harmful. I guess I answered my question when I said, I have not noticed loss of stamina in my limbs.

Thanks Fellas

 

Yeah it's not harmful, just after a while it won't really be doing anything.

 

Maybe it won't do anything more, but some excercise, is still better than none. For me its the time spent. Its the time of day when my brain recharges.

 

What are your goals?

For strength, pushups do jack.

For conditioning, work out every day, the SEALS do.

 

Doing calisthenics every day is good....lifting weights intensely every day is bad......as far as like cardio/ running goes, just pace yourself.....running can make you lose muscle in your legs so its good to take L glutamine before and/or after you run to help repair your muscles.

 

RE: Doing calisthenics every day is good....lifting weights intensely every day is bad......

RUBBISH

 

Push-ups do a little bit more than jack. They have changed my upper body shape within the last year. I know it was the push-ups cuz I don't do any other upper body work. I have muscle now in places where I had none (sholders & arms).

I am definatly not wanting to get much bigger. My goal is to get into the kind of shape that would allow me to enter some of the foot races through the Colorado mountains. Hill climbs are my fav.

 

I agrree with Iron Goth, no harm will come from this program.
I would suggest you do squats. a few hundred of those will strengthen your legs.

 

Yeah, maybe some squats would be the right thing, especially for uphill races.

I know my workout is kinda chill, but its doing what I want for now. I'll bump it up in the spring.

 

GrimJivey - I meant for strength. If you wanna look like a fitness model, pushups are fine.

If you want to be toned and strong but not bulky, I suggest you look into training with kettlebells and clubbells.

You seem to me to be a bodybuilder not interested in too much size.

 

how is that rubbish? Lifting weights INTENSELY everyday is not good, because your muscles need time to recover. If they dont have that time to recover then all you are doing is actually destroying lean muscle mass......Calisthenics every day IS good for conditioning.........no calisthenics will not give you any size......but Iron Goth, before you say my advice is rubbish you might want to have a look into the facts of things or else read over what i typed more carefully.....I is an undisputed fact that if your muscles do not have time to recover then you actually destroy them. I know this from studying and i know this from experience.

 

Tell that to the Bulgarian weightlifting team, some of the most massive and strong people on the planet.

They'll tell YOU being vegetarian is the bigger health hazard.

 

oh sorry...how long have you been on the bulgarian weight lifting team??

 

Until I was wiped out in a bike accident I was a powerlifter. I trained six days a week.

And because I'm not in the Bulgarian weightlifting team doesn't mean I didn't voraciously read everything they ever wrote on the subject.

The human body is more adaptable than you'd know.

The "no body part more than once a week" comes from body builders, who don't care how strong they are, just how striated their ass cheeks are, gotta look pretty posing in front of other men covered in salad oil don't we girls.

Cordially,

IG

 

OK Ok boys... to your corners.
You are both right and you are both wrong.

First of all, no you should not work the same muscle group two days in a row, no one said anything about more than once a week Iron, you can do a full body work out from my calculations 4 times a week and still not do it every day. That is a pretty intense workout schedule if you ask me. And no that doesn't come from the silly pansy bodybuilders that you despise, that comes from me, a personal trainer who trains all types of people for anything, including strength gains. It is also what all of the major accrediting associations recommend. So it's pretty much a standard in the industry. You can do whatever your heart desires though, it very well might work for you. I'm just telling you that your muscles most certainly do need to rest in order to benefit from a workout. During the rest/repair time is when you are actually building muscle, not while you are working out. And I know you know this, so I can't figure your response out.

However, with regard to the original poster's exercise selection, you are correct, I doubt doing that routine every day will hurt anyone. It is simply too easy and isn't really working the muslces much. Whether one is happy with or not is another story. So Brandonveg, with your answer of lifting weight intensely, yeah you shouldn't be doing that, but this person is not, so don't assume, read what he wrote he was doing before responding and think it through. The workout he describes doesn't say anything about lifting weights and what he is doing is not intense (for him anyway, because he said so).

And everyone, including myself needs to remember when people come here and look for advice, what you and I do in our personal routines, might not be what everyone else does or wants to accomplish. I have trouble with this myself sometimes. Workouts should be formulated to each individuals needs/wants.

Take Care Everyone!

Jen

 

CuteLilDeadBear - what the HELL are you talking about?

I take it from what you're saying you've got an ACE.

 

Muscles groups?? Seperate work outs?? You should work your entire body as a single group...