How Many Push Ups Can You Do?

I can do about 20 good ones... maybe more if I tried.

*buzzer*
wrong.

Building muscle (by doing push-ups) can make you lose weight and fat. This is because the more muscle mass your body has, the more efficient it is at burning calories. Muscle burns more calories than fat, or lean tissue. Having more muscle makes you lose fat quicker because you burn more calories than if you had less muscle.


I probably can't do much more than 50 right now - though I ought to try getting back in shape. I used to do 80 or so in a minute (I'm in the Army), and then maybe 5-10 in the next minute.. 2 minute test. I'm horribly outta shape, all around.

*Buzzer*
fag

I was posting on wht sam said to me in tht post, but still think it's more accurate than what you say. I know you wouldnt loose weight, as muscle weighs more than fat anyways.

How well you burn fat or not is not dependant on how much muscle you have, gaining muscle will make you look less fat as your fat% will decrease. But it is meerly burning more energy off than you put in that makes you lose weight it's simple.

Eat low fat low carb food, and do exercise to lose weight

Eat high carb High fat food and copious ammounts of protein and creatine to gain size.


As long as you are doing good exercise during those diet plans you will look less fat and overall better. :closed:

oh boo who, look at me cry.

anyway...
wrong.

and wrong.

Skipper what you said had nothing to do with losing or gaining weight you said:

Thats not true. Firstly, any exercise is going to burn calories. That does not necessarily follow that burned calories will lead to burned fat. Fat is a reserve calorie that the body uses when its immediately available glycogens are used up from the blood stream, and liver. In order to directly cause the body to actively use fat stores as energy, you have to perform very grueling cardiovascular activity. You have to go to the point when your muscles feel like they can't go any more, and then keep on going anyway.

The caloric input vs. caloric output argument is a stable argument - but its still inaccurate.

Hahahahaha
You have just described a diet which will cause you to increase weight - though in a relatively healthy manner.
A diet that is going to cause you to lose weight is somewhere around the lines of 60% carb, 25% fat and 15% protein. That is going to vary from person to person, but its a good skeleton frame to build on. It is not simply use more energy than you bring in. If it were that simple, a lot less people would be fat, and diets wouldn't fail 60% of the time. Its not necessarily how much you eat; or even whether or not its carb, fat or protein. It just depends on what kind. As I've said, carbs should make up the majority of your diet - but if those carbs are made of sugar, white processed flour, and starchy potato chips - chances are you'e getting fat. On the other hand, if those carbs come from whole grains, vegetables, and fruits - then you're going to lose weight. Same with fats - if you get all your fats at McDonalds - then its all trans fats, or saturated fats. However, if you're loading up on Omega 3 and 6 fatty acids, like the kind you get in fish - you're more likely to lose weight. Proteins are pretty much all the same - though more complex ones are harder to metabolize, and therefore increase your metabolism, leading to easier weight loss.

But anyway, back to my point - lean muscle mass burns more fat than any other body tissue. Every time you move, your body has to exert energy. The constriction of your muscle requires you to burn calories. The more muscle you have, the more calories are burned with every movement. Therefore, just having more muscle leads to burned calories. It is a proven fact that the most effective way to lose weight, and keep it off is to increase muscle mass. Otherwise, the second you slip from whatever diet got you there, your body swallows up whatever calories you give it, and converts it to fat as stores for the next time you decrease its caloric input.

you guys realize youre arguing over health & diet shit right? do what you think is right, I know youll never find me coming on a homegrown forum asking for a diet plan.

No joke, 2 good ones.

I just did six and now im going back to bed.... see you in a week...

yeah, but reading that much writing is poitnless.

Im just ganna say im right. xxx

dunno I never do push ups. can do 100 sit ups thought

and under-sized genitals! haha!

Thus making it the perfect thread for you too post in.....OOOO BURN!!!

ow...my pride.

I know man, I took you down a notch. I know I was harsh. I just hope that one day you will be able to get over the fact you got burned, and in such a harsh manner...by yours truely.

I dunno man.

The wounds caused by a burn on a public forum are not easily erased. I may have to sue for lasting emotional damage.

CALL YOUR LAWYER SLUT!

I can do one.

However, girl push-ups are another story.

That is seriously the most ridiculous thing I've ever heard concerning fat loss and or weight loss. You suck man. I'll post up an article my trainer wrote for us in this gym magazine, that'll sum up pretty much what I was trying to say, expect a long post when I can be arsed.

Ok firstly in response to that. Atrophy (the wastage of muscle) and Hypertrophy ( the building and increasing of muscle) happen in a 3:1 ratio. So yeah when you stop exercising and going to the gym regularly you lose a lot of your definition 3 times faster than you gain it. So by getting muscly you will not stay in shape infact you have to work harder to keep it.

I opened this thread in hope of nipple shot of chorus, but noe.

No one is going to post a video? lol jk. I can do around 50 ish.

I don't care enough to try, but somewhere around 30 is when I usually give up.

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I can do all the pushups I want

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Yeah, but you have to make me want to do pushups first

you guys might wanna check this out
http://www.recordholders.org/en/list/pushups.html

tf?!

http://www.recordholders.org/video/pressups.mov

OMGGG FAKEE FAKEE

You are a dolt.
Yes, your information is correct - but you have to stop and think about why.
Firstly - yes, you do have to work to stay in shape. But thats not the issue here. The difference between atrophy and hypertrophy is that when you burn fat through exercise, that fat is used as energy which in turn allows you to build muscle. Conversely, as your muscles atrophy, there is no process that creates fat. You don't get fat by having your muscle tissue deteriorate. That can be a side effect - because of the fact that since you have less muscular tissue, you are burning less calories at rest, and therefore if you maintain your diet, your caloric intake will severely outweight the output, and you will increase fat stores.


Again, you are missing the point. I didn't say you will just magically stay muscular. I said that having more muscle tissue leads to more calories being burned - whether at rest, or not. Therefore, having a more muscluar physique leads to easier weight loss, because regardless of activity, you burn more calories than you would if you were less muscular.

So (one part of) the reason that your muscle atrophies quicker than it hypertrophies is that your body is burning calories a a higher rate. The body burns calories in the same order every time: carbs, fats, proteins. If you have less fat, your body will be more likely to use proteins as an energy source - which in turn will not go to muscle tissue regeneration, which is required due to the life cycle of muscle tissue, which dies and gets replaced. Therefore, the muscle tissue deteriorates faster than it rebuilds.

Ask your "trainer" if you like; but my information is accurate, and you are a dumb ass.