Can you gain weight and muscle by doing push ups?
Wednesday, September 8th, 2010 at
4:01 am
Hi, I wonder will I be able to gain weight and muscle by doing 120 normal push ups + 100 push ups for triceps using a chair with my legs streched forwards. I would be doing this exercise every other day and drinking whey protein before and after the work out. Between the other days i’d be exercising legs and abs, so practically I’d be working out everyday. I just wanna do home exersice don’t wanna waste money for equipment.
Thanks
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If you can do more than 10 reps its too easy and you will need to increase the weight or use weights!
You will put on muscle for a little bit but progress will soon stop!
Try 1 armed push ups or a bench press!
I don’t know how much mass you will gain as a whole, but your upper body will bulk up for sure. Believe it or not, the army of one web site had (and I think still has) some really great push up routines. I would say check that out for sure.
Body exercises are great compound movements, but doing that many only gets your muscles more ripped because your burning the calories off. If you want to build muscle or "bulk up", you need to add weight to these…like wearing a backpack with weights in it and doing pushups..go from 120 to idk 10ish to failure. Low reps+high weights=faster strength=faster muscle growth
yeah, but if you dont work out enough what ever protein you body doesnt need it will store as fat, so dont take the protein if you didnt do a full workout, but yes you will gain muscle.
its too easy if you can do 120
Back pack is a great way to increase resistance.
make it harder for yourself, there are many push-up variations. Dont just stick to regular pushups
Weighted push ups will help, but that requires some equipment. A pull-up bar would balance your routine out and help prevent injury by working antagonist muscles to the push-up, but that requires equipment. (unless you have a tree handy) It sounds like you’re unfairly limiting yourself by not wanting to "waste money" on equipment.
A set of adjustable dumbbells at wally world is dirt cheap, will last a long time, and take you MUCH further than just bodyweight exercises. Exercise equipment is an investment in your strength, health, and appearance. Hardly a waste.