New answers tagged push-ups
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Well, doing a push up aint so hard :) If doing a proper push up is too difficult for you, try changing the leverage.
When doing a push up flat on the ground, youre lifiting a certain % of your body weight. If you lift your chest, arms and head higher, you change the leverage, so you will be lifting a lower % of your body mass, and doing the push-up will be ...
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Two minutes is fine. More rest means you'll improve your muscular endurance and recovery time less, however your strength will improve more.
People training for strength should take 3 to 5 minute breaks, or even more in some circumstances. People training for fitness, hypertrophy, or endurance might want to work shorter rests--2 minutes, 1 minute, or even ...
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Yes, do "warm up".
There are many ways you could build up a short routine that's safe end effective. Of course, doing nothing else than your 20 push-ups is a lot better than doing nothing, but it may be far from optimal. You may think that the push up is not a difficult exercise, but you still put your bodyweight on your wrists and shoulders. So "warming ...
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In my experience, it is good to do pushups on the palms in the beginning. Palms provide a larger base of support (especially with the fingers spreaded). For some reason I also find it a little bit easier to focus on keeping the trunk active (which I think is very important), when doing it on the palms. Also, one thing that is useful for me in protecting the ...
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No worries with your hands. If you want to make your wrists stronger then knuckle push-ups are the way to do it. My training is karate/taekwondo/kali-escrima/kick-boxing and lately bujinkan. But take your time to do it right - you don't have to do 100 at once, take care that you have your wrist in the wright angle. You know - as you would push your hand ...
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Generally, if you want to perform an exercise set then a warm up is preferred. We all know this, but I found some great documentation on what a warm up actually does, and why one should do it. Most notably:
What does a warm up do?
increases blood flow to the muscles, which enhances the delivery of oxygen and nutrients;
warms your muscles, which ...
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