Push up instead of bench press

ihavetitaniumarms · 2018-04-19T06:19:07+00:00

 I'm in the military so push ups are near and dear to me. You have to go about it like conventional lifting. Yes you can get a big chest and triceps doing them exclusively. It's no different than any other form of exercise where as long as you are putting enough load and taxing your muscles to a high enough degree....they will always adapt and grow if they are fed properly. This brings me to my second point. You state you don't have enough money to pay for a gym membership. I'm going to go on a limb and assume you don't have enough dough for some good nutrition either. This is basically going to test your drive and determination as a man. If you put some effort into being resourceful and clever you can make the most out of this situation to benefit your fitness goals. The biggest part to your success with all of this is going to be your ability to not give a fuck about any shortcomings you have with equipment/nutrition and to crush those workouts and eat whatever you can get your hands on with a shit eating grin because you know you're working twice as hard as the next fuck who thinks he's tough. Own your shit and kick life in the ass whether you're poor or on the high horse.

Mr_Badass · 2018-04-19T06:19:11+00:00

There are many body weight exercises you can do for general fitness. Look up convict conditioning.

vandaalen · 2018-04-19T08:47:42+00:00

Get a fucking job you lazt asshat.

4TBhdd · 2018-04-19T11:03:35+00:00

Whenever I don't have access to a bench press, I do pushups.

First, do as many narrow grip (google it) pushups as you can - theses build your triceps. Then immediately throw your hands out and continue with a set of wide grip pushups - these work your pects. 5-7 sets of these are good.

I know a guy who's a P90x fanatic which apparently includes a lot of pushup type exercises and he's got a lot of upper body size.

Kwantuum · 2018-04-19T13:12:01+00:00

not very if you only do regular pushups, but if you progress to harder variations like incline pushups with various hand placements then to one armed pushups, you can get pretty shredded. You'll never be bodybuilder big but to be that big you'd probably need to juice anyways. Also try to find a place to do some pullups or buy a doorway bar ($15-20), otherwise you'll never be training pulling movements and completely ignore half of your muscles.

Also, don't do hundreds of pushups every day. If you can do sets of 20 regular pushups it's time to move to a harder exercise, you don't get much bigger from banging out hundreds of reps of something easy. More information on /r/bodyweightfitness

laughatthisin20years · 2018-04-19T07:50:17+00:00

Buy 2 gallons of milk. Get a whole bunch of bags. Put the milk in the bags. Boom, kettlebells.

Lift that milk. Bench that shit. Press that shit. Fuckin do whatever.

Then drink the goddamn milk. Refill with water.

Rinse, repeat. Add more milk/water as needed.

Bonus: you'll get extra shredded because all your stabilizing muscles will get very well worked because you'll have to keep the bags from swinging and getting out of control.

There's no excuses for not finding something heavy to move up in the air and back again.

Title	Push up instead of bench press
Author	anonacnt
Upvotes	0
Comments	18
Date	April 19, 2018 5:37 AM UTC (8 years ago)
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