Order Mark Rippetoe's "Starting Strength" and do everything he tells you to do. To his strength workouts, add a core circuit that hits flexion/rotation/stability along with pull-ups or dips on alternating days, and do a few durability exercises. Combine this with eating paleo and doing your runs at a fat-burning pace (which is slower than you usually run). You will look like a greek god before long.
helpmemessageboard wrote:
right now doing 20 a minute until i get too tired to do anymore than 10 a minute then take a 5 min rest and keep repeating until i hit 1000.
Are you using proper form? I think you'd be pretty ripped already if you could pull off 1000 push ups daily with proper form.
http://www.military.com/military-fitness/workouts/try-pushup-push-workoutWell true and false. Running can do damage to muscle if your form is bad, but running also puts strain on your joints and can be bad in the long run (no pun intended). Runners should take a daily regimen of glucosamine and chondrointan for joint health as well as as vitamin d for bone strength. Joint and bone health is important for getting into great shape, building muscle without making sure your bones and joints are healthy is like building a house with shiny new nails and rotted out wood. If you have joint pain or other problems, walking a little further burns the same amount of calories as running you just wont get the cardio workout that you do with running. Now back to the subject of a thousand pushups a day. Don't do it. I do a thousand push ups every other day and there's a good reason. Your chest and arm muscles do not heal as fast as abdominal muscles which can be worked out every day. Even if you aren't sore you still need to skip a day in between to give the muscles time to heal properly or you will not see the results you desire. Skipping a day in between will give you more noticeable results in a shorter period of time. Your diet also plays a very big part in body composition as well. Not so much what you eat but when you eat. Of course you want to drink plenty of water and avoid things like high fructose corn syrup and trans fat but the main thing is to eat the same amount of times every day and at relatively the same time. Your hypothalamus gland regulates body composition by telling your body where to store fat and when. When you change up your eating habits unnecessarily you confuse the hypothalamus gland and because it is no longer on a set schedule it begins to tell your body to store fat for emergency situations, when in fact there is no emergency, you've just changed your eating habits. Take all of these things into consideration and I promise you will see results.
You certainly sound like an Army fitness expert. Grossly misinformed and writing like a middle schooler.
Next time try using paragraphs and not talking out of your ass.
shredded wheat wrote:
You certainly sound like an Army fitness expert. Grossly misinformed and writing like a middle schooler.
Next time try using paragraphs and not talking out of your ass.
Awesome.
NO!
If, by "ripped," you mean giving you slightly larger pecs, delts and triceps, then the answer is yes.
However, without doing pullups or rows, your pecs will become dominant and will pull your shoulder blades forward, giving you this awkward hunched posture which looks stupid.
Ripped, but not SHREDDED