Push-ups are one of the simple and effective exercises with which you can keep your body in shape. Some people follow special programs and track results, while others simply do several approaches every day. Both claim that they get excellent physical activity. So is it really worth thinking about? Let's figure out whether it's possible to do push-ups every day, and what will come of it.
The feasibility of daily training
It is important to understand that doing exercises every day is definitely beneficial. But going to the gym every day and doing heavy strength exercises is rather harmful.
If you approach physical activity as a prevention of blood stagnation, heart disease and physical inactivity, then it makes sense to give it to yourself daily. But if we are talking about strength progress, gaining muscle mass, in this regard our body is not as fast as we would like.
Recovery of muscle fibers after active training occurs within 48 hours or more (you can judge this for yourself by soreness and lack of strength after training).
So, we conclude:
- Doing push-ups every day does not lead to the development of strength and muscle mass gain. The body simply does not have time to recover a day after the previous load. And, let's be honest, the load is not so great if you can easily repeat the workout the next day.
- But as exercise, to maintain muscle tone and prevent various diseases, push-ups every day will come in handy.
And, since there is no advisability of push-ups for increasing strength and mass on a daily basis, let’s talk about the “morning exercise” mode.
Push-up program for experiment
In order to understand how daily push-ups affect the human body, you need to know what program the subject is following. YouTube blogger Bogdan Butenko conducted such an experiment on himself. As a training program, he took the well-known training plan for 15 weeks, or 4 months.
The program is carried out as follows: every day for a week the subject had to do the same number of push-ups. A total of 5 approaches were provided per day with different numbers of repetitions. The following week, the standards for Bogdan increased, but quite gradually, because the course is designed for quite a long time.
Lesson plan for 4 months
Push-ups as exercise
Morning exercise often includes push-ups and squats (for the lower body). This is the simplest set of exercises that can raise blood pressure and tone a large number of muscles.
Therefore, these exercises are used as daily physical activity. Squats target the quadriceps, hamstrings, and glutes. And push-ups strain the core muscles, triceps, shoulders, and chest. The same starting position for push-ups corresponds to the “plank” exercise, which is designed to train the core muscles.
In general, the benefits of an exercise such as push-ups are as follows:
- If you do push-ups every day or every other day, your arms and chest are much stronger and more resilient than the average person.
- If you do at least 20 push-ups, there is a chance that you will be able to push away an opponent or a heavy object that has fallen on you in an unexpected situation.
- Push-ups are necessary to train breathing and increase blood circulation. And the latter is required for good health and the prevention of many diseases.
- Any workout is a reminder to muscles and joints of their functions. They even say about cars that it is “harmful” for them to stand in the garage for a long time.
Share your opinion! How often do you do push-ups?
Every day. For me this is a must.
59.74%
Few times a week. When I train, I do push-ups at the same time.
22.69%
Once a week - when I train my chest muscles.
4.26%
I’m a romantic and a dreamer... Someday I’ll start doing push-ups... Probably!
