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Originally Posted by Hogg Perhaps the question is, what exactly do you expect to gain out of doing 4 sets of 50 pushups nightly? Is it enough load to have any sort of beneficial impact on contractile proteins? No, anything that you can do 50 of will only benefit you in terms of endurance, best case.
One might argue that pushups could be of benefit in terms of active recovery but since you only train once a week, active recovery is something you need not worry about.....its not like you're going to train the muscle more than once a week anyway so there is no reason for speeding recovery along. |
I was in the army to been out 13 yrs now.Did 3 yrs got my Honorable discharge,etc couldnt wait to get the heal out.You are so right doing pushups Mon to Fri every AM PT is insane it actually works against you.
To this day I wont do a push up.I just got back from the gym and even chin-ups I grew to hate heeheee and those we only did on PT tests.
I feel anyway you train a muscle more than once every 7 days is overtraining.For me anyway many here disagree.
I was in Korea my first year 2nd division we actually had an incredible gym even than at 18 I felt my chest "workout" was suffering from those damn 5 day a week pushups.
Where are you stationed? I imagine your stateside.
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