Can just doing pushups or other body-weight only exercises build muscle?
matthewq10 asked:
I am wondering if body-weight-only excercises are able to build mucle if they are done to muscle exhaustion, or does it take heavier and heavier weight?
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I am wondering if body-weight-only excercises are able to build mucle if they are done to muscle exhaustion, or does it take heavier and heavier weight?
December 29th, 2008 at 9:13 am
No combine with cardio-vascular exercises
December 31st, 2008 at 5:23 am
No, those will work just fine. As you become more muscular, you will weigh more anyway. You can also go more deeply into the push up, and do them more slowly to further challenge yourself.
December 31st, 2008 at 8:55 am
Of course it can, in fact when swimming I have found that since doing press ups my muscle mass has increased a lot quicker. If your looking to tone up, then combine it with plenty of cardio work
January 2nd, 2009 at 3:24 pm
You can use body-weight exercises to build muscles. It will take different exercises and different sets and reps to equate the lifting done in a gym. Before gyms everyone used body-weight exercises because that was all that was available. You do not have to do an exercise to exhaustion, control your sets and reps to get the best effect.
January 3rd, 2009 at 1:28 pm
Yeah, that’s really all that you need to do, it’s not going to make you huge, but it’s like benching your weight- that’s all I do, and it works for me
January 5th, 2009 at 11:26 am
You don’t see very many wimpy marines fresh out of boot camp do you?
January 7th, 2009 at 3:00 am
And cardio-vascular exercise has absolutely nothing to do with gaining muscle mass, in fact if that is your only goal-muscle mass- it is a waste of calories that could be used to build muscle.