if you cant hit a gym, can push ups give you a respectable body size?

[Manc33]

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.

[Mindi912]

lmao they use the search function i just want to know what the key words he looked up were since his post had alot to do with prison and what vaguely sounds like fear=based bodybuilding lol.

well yeah clearly but are their thought processes as such - what thread topic shall I answer today, to spread my useless knowledge around like the plague.

then random searches for push ups, proceeds to find an old one and answer.

[Slow-N-Steady]

It happens also because the search function sucks ass here. It's like no matter how you search, it still ends up mostly giving you crap from 5 years ago. It's much better on other forums...justsayin

[Mindi912]

It happens also because the search function sucks ass here. It's like no matter how you search, it still ends up mostly giving you crap from 5 years ago. It's much better on other forums...justsayin

Yeah I've noticed it's all ****ed up this last year or so. I know it used to give you it you by the latest date first but who the hell knows what it does these days.

[vincevega]

guys in jail are resourceful as hell. they do dips and stuff like that also. those guys in jail who are giant as hell arent just doing pushups.

[etkillah]

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.

[mileseperez]

it's debatable i think because dudes in prison get jack3d as fcuk calistitics weights where taken out of the prison system years ago so do the math =

[Mindi912]

Oh god! LMAO at ^^^^^ answering an old thread seriously when we're all just taking the piss!

[Dawginit]

Toned, yes. Built, no. The only way to significantly increase muscle mass it to lift progressively heavier weights. You can get in shape doing push-ups. Look at Marines. You will never get beyond a certain size however.

with of course cardio included running/jogging 45 mins a day. Can push ups alone give you a respectable front size? What I mean is a toned good looking chest/neck/shoulders, how many push ups should I aim doing a per day?

[Slow-N-Steady]

Oh god! LMAO at ^^^^^ answering an old thread seriously when we're all just taking the piss!

Lol...they just don't get it.

[suffer4me]

i dont touch weights, only gymnastics for the past year and im getting decent..just eat right...bnut everyone is different

[theGuy045]

It is. Like I am not looking to be big or anything just how can I put it, a taylor lautner like body.

You think that kid did pushups to look like that?

He trained with weights. He ate right.

[TAGPriest]

No.

Your retarded, you do need more than push ups, weighted dips off your bed, leg raises and crunches for abs, chinups, and running yes you will get bigger. HMM last i checked Basic training doesnt include a weight room.

[PeterGibbons316]

Your retarded

[Mindi912]

ROFL repped on recharge.

[Chris_R]

Google "Hershell Walker workout".

Not sure too many people are up to doing 2,500 sit-ups and 1,500 push-up a day though.

[Manc33]

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.

Not trolling, just my honest opinion, I love honesty, can't get enough of it.

[SquatTilYouDrop]

I love train wreck threads. They make me laugh and then laugh some more.

[FingerNailsBrah]

ROFL @ "I dont wanna be big but just toned out. "

btw as far as "jail guys" how do you not know he wasnt already huge and hes just doing whatever to maintain.

[Manc33]

ROFL @ "I dont wanna be big but just toned out. "

btw as far as "jail guys" how do you not know he wasnt already huge and hes just doing whatever to maintain.

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.

[DJAuto]

You need resistance to keep advancing.

[DrewStaka77]

you ever seen someone from jail?

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.

[Manc33]

Just put a weight on your back when you do push ups.

/thread

[JohnnyNoRhymes]

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

[Broskis]

EDIT: lol date of OP.

Mission failed.

[akmusclehamster]

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 pushups

[Arathor]

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).

[hamworld05]

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).

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...

[TheJediBrah]

why bump this?

How even find this threa? Must have searched "Push Ups" or something

[marz123]

I love when people don't get the answer they want so they just rephrase the question and ask again, as if the answer is going to change.

Why ask for advice if you aren't going to take it???

Lol'd. ^^^ very tru