What is a strength exercise in your understanding?
By disagreeing with me, you are implying that running long distance build strength equally as sprinting up a hill.
What is a strength exercise in your understanding?
By disagreeing with me, you are implying that running long distance build strength equally as sprinting up a hill.
Push ups require strength. That is all. You are saying they are not?
Body weight exercises are a great way to get stronger.
If an exercise gets you strong than it is a strength exercise.
I’ve have seen many people bench tons a weight but are unable to do a push-up.
They require strength only if you can do very little pushups.
For the average out-of-shape person who can do 30 (an in-shape doing at least 50-60), they are highly inefficient in building strength so more weight needs to be put into the exercise.
The bench press thus is a good candidate for this. Dips are also good, although an average person being able to do 10, they're not ideal unless extra weight is added.
First of all, this is a dumb question. There is no reason to limit yourself to only three strength exercises. If you have the equipment and time to do 3 exercises, you have the equipment and time to mix it up from day to day.
I'd almost not want to do any traditional strength training if I were limited to just 3 movements. That being said, my first 3 would be deadlift, single arm dumbbell rows, squat. Incline bench would be my #4. Though I would never want to restrict all my lifting to these movements to avoid imbalances, and a lot of improvement at the main exercises can come by a good rotation of complimentary exercises.
The average out a shape can maybe do one correctly. 30 is far from average.
Yes you always add weight. But back to the point is a push-up is a strength exercise whether it’s one push-up on incline or 100.
Pushups
Pull Ups
Abs
That's everything you need right there, besides running.
also, i tailor my exercises to work on my current weaknesses. my rear deltoids are currently probably my biggest weak spot, so lately i've been doing a little more face pulls, lateral bent-over dumbbell raises vs. pull-ups and bench and have been doing chest flys more often for my chest. basically my top 3 may be different based on my current shape, and a person's top 3 for the rest of their life might be different based on their genetics.
Flyyy wrote:
Pushups
Pull Ups
Abs
That's everything you need right there, besides running.
whoa whoa whoa there, that's way too front shoulder dominant and would give you bad posture if that's all you did at any sort of volume.
Runnergrl wrote:
The average out a shape can maybe do one correctly. 30 is far from average.
Yes you always add weight. But back to the point is a push-up is a strength exercise whether it’s one push-up on incline or 100.
How does doing 100 push-ups build your strength?
By that logic me standing is a strength exercise because I need strength in my back and legs to keep me from falling over.
...Which diminishes the point of using the word 'strength' to describe an exercise.
Are you a girl by any chance? I highly doubt a guy would be unable to do less than 30 push ups on any given day.
whoa whoa whoa wrote:
Flyyy wrote:
Pushups
Pull Ups
Abs
That's everything you need right there, besides running.
whoa whoa whoa there, that's way too front shoulder dominant and would give you bad posture if that's all you did at any sort of volume.
Pull Ups get your back and biceps, pushups get your chest, triceps, shoulders, and abs get your core. Running would workout your legs. You only get 3 strength training exercises. That's all runners need.
Flyyy wrote:
whoa whoa whoa wrote:
whoa whoa whoa there, that's way too front shoulder dominant and would give you bad posture if that's all you did at any sort of volume.
Pull Ups get your back and biceps, pushups get your chest, triceps, shoulders, and abs get your core. Running would workout your legs. You only get 3 strength training exercises. That's all runners need.
Both pull-ups and bench work the front deltoid (they also work rear deltoids, but to a lesser extent), giving the lifter a hunched over look if thats all they do (think Mary Cain). It's even worse if you're adding ab work to that routine. Rows (which work a lot more of your back than pull-ups) would be much better than pull-ups in that situation. Also, if doing only 3 exercises, why would you bother with an isolation exercise like abs, and if isolation, why abs vs. lower back?
Yes. This is good.
I have seen plenty of guys who can’t do one.
20 kg backpack wrote:
Runnergrl wrote:
The average out a shape can maybe do one correctly. 30 is far from average.
Yes you always add weight. But back to the point is a push-up is a strength exercise whether it’s one push-up on incline or 100.
How does doing 100 push-ups build your strength?
By that logic me standing is a strength exercise because I need strength in my back and legs to keep me from falling over.
...Which diminishes the point of using the word 'strength' to describe an exercise.
Are you a girl by any chance? I highly doubt a guy would be unable to do less than 30 push ups on any given day.
Most guys can not do 30 push ups and many people do them incorrectly. Mike Boyle recommends young kids start off with light bench pressing before push ups.
One person's strength exercise is another person's stabilization exercise.
As far as what you need for the rest of your life, studies show that as you get older you need to work the lower traps, rhomboids, triceps, deltoids, glutes. Dan John has articles on this.
handclap pushups and now were back to strength. Pushups are a strength exercise, sure, but this is three for the rest of your life. it becomes an endurance exercise eventually. id say pushing a prowler sled. even more functional than pushups, as stability is required across the body, and you can add weight.
The 3 R's wrote:
Running
Running up hill
Running down hill
My picks as well.
runrun14 wrote:
Flyyy wrote:
Pull Ups get your back and biceps, pushups get your chest, triceps, shoulders, and abs get your core. Running would workout your legs. You only get 3 strength training exercises. That's all runners need.
Both pull-ups and bench work the front deltoid (they also work rear deltoids, but to a lesser extent), giving the lifter a hunched over look if thats all they do (think Mary Cain). It's even worse if you're adding ab work to that routine. Rows (which work a lot more of your back than pull-ups) would be much better than pull-ups in that situation. Also, if doing only 3 exercises, why would you bother with an isolation exercise like abs, and if isolation, why abs vs. lower back?
I guess I am considering strength exercises that require no equipment/gym membership and can be used in supplement to running...I wouldn't plan on doing these to the amount where you are getting bigger, just some upper body strength to supplement and make a strong runner. Also, I am considering abs as anything not requiring equipment, which could include planks, supermans, etc
I don’t think it’s a dumb question. Not sure how old you are but thinking ahead is always a good idea. You may not always have youth, endless time or equipment.
Very good point. I’m not bashing benching I just wouldn’t pick it if I only had three exercises that I could do for life.
Time to go to work.