Just do push-ups every day. You don’t have to start with very many, but set yourself a rule by which you can’t do fewer push-ups one day than you did the previous day. The regularity of the exercise is really the most important thing. This workout is simple, so you won’t need to buy any equipment or drive to a gym, and thus you won’t have an excuse to ever miss a day.
You don’t want to over do it, especially when you are just starting. If you do it too hard at first, it could turn you off to working out. However, you want to do a little bit more than you feel that you can. If you do mroe than you feel that you can, it’ll build your strength. Such as if you are running and you think that you can only run half a mile, then run that half a mile and go past that point and go a bit further then turn around and come back, so that you go say 3/5 of a mile or something instead. Just set goals for yourself and reward yourself. Such as if you do that extar bit of a mile, reward yourself by eating out, watching a movie, getting a drink, or something like that. If you do less, then don’t reward yourself. If youa re doing push-ups, just try to increase them by like 2 or 3 each time. Also, take days off, otherwise you will jsut wear yourself out and won’t help yourself much.
Tell that to my fucking PE teacher. I do two fucking miles around the fucking track every fucking class even though I started doing fucking exercises only a few fucking months ago.
I hate PE in case you didn’t notice.
That isn’t that bad. A few months is more than enough tiem to build up to two miles. 2 miles relly isn’t that far.
Luckily, I don’t have to take PE in high school. I despise it.
For curling, my comfortable weight is 15 pounds. <_<
Anyway, I exercise every two days, and I just done with today’s.
I did…
30 situps!
40 pushups! p:unch::
60 pounds bench-pressed 15 times! p:unch::
100 pounds on the butterfly 20 times! p:unch::
15 weird things with 10 pound weights! (You bring both of them up to your chest, raise them in the air, bring them back down to your chest, then back down to your sides)
25 curls with each arm!
80 pounds on the tricep extensions 10 times! (I’m guessing that’s what they are, anyway… little bar thing that you pull down to bring up weights.)
Ok maybe I did overdo it a little. Start off with 3 sets of each exercise, doing 10 reps of each (bicep curl, benchpress, squat, etc.) using a comfortable weight setting. Keep going at that setting every time you exercise until you feel completely confident you can go higher, and build yourself up like that. As far as sit-ups and push-ups go. I usually do one minute of each, take a 30 second to 1 minute break, and then do another set of each until I’ve reached 3-5 sets of each. Muscle failure is the essential as odd as that may sound, because after your muscles take a beating, the protein (this is where meats and that smoothie shit can help) in your body rebuilds them, stronger and bigger.
Holy shit private…good job. Keep that up until you think you can take it a step higher.
Seriously, that’s what we started at in Ft. Knox. 5 mile formation runs are bleh though. Especially when it’s battalion runs less than a week after we had the 2 week Exodus.
Thanks, I’m really flattered, heh.
When I first started a while back I did 25 pushups, 20 situps, and bench-pressed 40 pounds 10 times… then I went to sleep because I was about to go :thud:.
Hades, talk to your school’s head football coach. They have good workouts. >.>;
Am I the only one who keeps reading this thread as “I want huge beasts?”
It’s my secret passion. Ask SK, he knows all about it.
Is that the lecture about the hole that will collapse in on itself?
You should start by switching hands every once and a while. Yeah, you heard me.
That’ll only help his forearms Epic.
Pushups work the pecs, mostly. If you want biceps, you’d need to do curls, but don’t work just the biceps. Do dumbbell extensions for the triceps and dumbbell presses for the deltoids.
I wouldn’t recommend sit ups because they’re bad for the back. Too big of a motion. You can get the same results through doing a full set of crunches (regular, toe touchers, obliques).
I alternate days of upper body and abs+lower body since your muscles are only supposed to improve during rest and not during the actual workout.
Eva: yes
Epic: I love you
Eat heavier food
Maybe for you, G.I. Joe, but I’m a sixteen year old bookworm :too bad:. Training at home demands a huge amount of willpower for me, since two hours a week of PE isn’t nearly enough to get me into shape.