I mentioned jail because:
http://forum.bodybuilding.com/showpo...1&postcount=17
I didn't visit the forum to find this - threads show up on Google.
I searched for "push ups alone"
http://www.google.co.uk/#hl=en&expId...x=1&fp=1&cad=b
People usually say either yes or no, push ups can build your chest, or they don't.
Both are b.u.l.l.s.h.i.t answers because it depends how built up (or not) your chest already is.
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12-29-2010, 07:56 AM #31
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12-29-2010, 08:40 AM #36
If you really cant get to a gym, then do things like so.
Pull ups, dips, pushups, BW squats, lunges, jump roping, hitting heavy bag for 30+ mins, ab workouts, if you dont have any dumbells or weights perdiod get creative... take empty milk jugs fill them up with water, and do curls with them (serious), use them when doing your squats, lunges also, take your living room couch for example... do deadlifts with one side of them, if the weight is to light sh*t have a friend sit on it, or a GF or whatever, gotta be creative man.
There is a ton of workouts you can do without any weights or a gym, and doing all of these will def. get you in better shape. But these results will be nothing compared to hitting the gym 3-5 times a week.As of 02/10/16
170 lbs
Bench - 225 x 10
Deadlift - 385 x 5
Squat - 315 x 5
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12-29-2010, 09:46 AM #47
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Honestly if I had known so many posts would get added after mine, no I wouldn't have replied to a topic this old.
Old topics lol... what about Jesus, a guy that died 2000+ years ago and yet people STILL go on about him? That to me is just f**ked up. At least with push ups we are actually doing something that physically benefits us in the real world.
How many people here are Christians anyway? A ****load of you will be because most of you are Yanks, sigh. In the US its almost expected of you to get big... for the football mostly... or look like a douche/programmer/lazy fuk.
"Johnny football hero" cheezy bastards etc, thats what the US seems like to me, but what do I know, I have never been there - thank f**k.
You can't let me into a country where I can not only have a gun but I have the "right" to bear arms, I would be serving multiple life sentences by now I am sure.
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Thats what I thought - asking about getting toned, here... he would be better off looking on some aerobics site. I think he wants what we all want - to look buff without fat. I believe you can, but you always have to gain fat with the muscle and can't really do it at the same time getting bigger but losing fat.
Bulk for 12 weeks and do cardio for 4 weeks (repeat forever) then if the 4 weeks just happens to be not enough (or if you're lucky, too much) just shorten or lengthen that, then once your BF gets to say 8% or 10% start bulking again. All I know is you can't really just "get toned" - well you could but why do it when it will take twice as long for the same effect, I mean getting toned you'd be lifting what, medium weights and doing what, medium amount of cardio... just sounds like the average Joe to me who as we all know, is not toned at all, they are not anything, just weak "average" people because they never up the cardio to get a more ripped look OR up the weights to again get a more ripped look. Even if the aim is to eventually be "toned" I say bulk up and use heavy weights, gain fat alongside that, lose the fat afterwards.u wot m1.68179283050742908606225095246644152⁴
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and most of them if not all got their body before they got to jail and when they come out they just look super cut cause all the ones that workout or love doing so will wind up being really active during their time in jail cause who the **** wants to sit around and do nothing all day besides fat lazy ****s.
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01-20-2013, 11:14 AM #54
I learned a pretty good excersise for chest a few years ago i dont see much that i use in my home workout. take 2 weight plates, i use 10 pounders. hold them together in your hands with your palms, try not to wrap your fingers around the edges, just have them straight. extend it as far as you can away friom your chest and hold it there as long as you can. it is kind of like planking for your chest
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01-20-2013, 11:39 PM #56
respectable front size among the average person, yes.
respectable front size among trainees who weight train frequently, probably not, you'd be around average IF you use the right push up progressions:
plyo pushups onto elevated surfaces
one arm pushups
ring pushups
weighted pushupsCompound Weights, Bodyweight Exercises and Sprinting
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You will get some small results using push-ups, but you will quickly find that the gains stop coming because there's no way to progressively overload for hypertrophy when doing bodyweight exercises once you can already do 15 or so reps.
If you definitely can't use a gym, purchase some adjustable dumbbells (and a bench if you can afford it).
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01-21-2013, 12:30 AM #58
Gains don't stop coming because there's no way to get stronger. Gains stop coming because even getting stronger doesn't work. Pushups stop increasing t-levels and it just becomes calories spent, weighted or otherwise. Pushups burn calories which makes it easier to get leaner, getting a better-looking chest. At that point, there's no huge difference between cardio and pushups.
That said, I would rather do pushups all day than walk 2 hours everyday..."ham boy"
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