How many pushups can you do?

[Strength_mybb_import21403]

It's all based on your reps, not your weight. Doing more reps till muscle failure is better than doing more weight, less reps till muscle failure.

No, you shouldn't stick with small weights if you want to build muscle mass. Repetition of small weights is utilized for improving one's endurance. Lifting heavy weights with proper form is ideal for improvement.

I'm not talking small small. You should find out what what your 1RM (repitition max) weight is, then do 30% of your 1RM. That ratio will give you higher muscle proteins than that of your full 1RM or 90% RM. You are also at less risk to an injury. You shouldnt' stay on the same weight for too long. You should be finding yourself being able to lift stronger weights and you should be upping your weight. I started at 20KG's 10RM 5 sets about 6 weeks ago. I'm now at 50KG's 10-15RM and till muscle failure. In 6 weeks, I've gained about 6-7KG's of muscle. For the starting weeks, that's pretty good.

Evidence/Sources:
http://www.plosone.org/article/info:doi/10.1371/journal.pone.0012033

yep, what i meant

 

[Eon]

No, you shouldn't stick with small weights if you want to build muscle mass. Repetition of small weights is utilized for improving one's endurance. Lifting heavy weights with proper form is ideal for improvement.

I'm not talking small small. You should find out what what your 1RM (repitition max) weight is, then do 30% of your 1RM. That ratio will give you higher muscle proteins than that of your full 1RM or 90% RM.

Evidence:
http://www.plosone.org/article/info:doi/10.1371/journal.pone.0012033

30% of ones 1RM is considered a warm up for your workout.

 

[Inxy]

Holy fuck man 5'9 @ 50kg is horrible man. You need to eat some healthy food and don't take people advice on eating junk food. Do you have breakfast at least? I usually have 6 eggs with two yokes and can of baked beans. Also eat foods like Tuna, Cottage cheese, Almonds. Have something to eat every 3 hours.

 

[Haunter_mybb_import14889]

Holy f*ck man 5'9 @ 50kg is horrible man. You need to eat some healthy food and don't take people advice on eating junk food. Do you have breakfast at least? I usually have 6 eggs with two yokes and can of baked beans. Also eat foods like Tuna, Cottage cheese, Almonds. Have something to eat every 3 hours.

Almonds and Bananas are a good pre-workout food if you intended on starting a workout. I mix them in with a protein shake and it tastes wicked

 

[Mitch]

im 5'8 @57KG, but i'm a small build

 

[Haunter_mybb_import14889]

im 5'8 @57KG, but i'm a small build

I'm 6'1" and 71KGs. I'm considered a slim frame too.

 

[Mitch]

I'm like small tho, but i'm quite built for my weight/size, i don't work out in off season, i play rugby league so yea, so its finished now so, won't be in the gym for a bit

 

[Strength_mybb_import21403]

Holy f*ck man 5'9 @ 50kg is horrible man. You need to eat some healthy food and don't take people advice on eating junk food. Do you have breakfast at least? I usually have 6 eggs with two yokes and can of baked beans. Also eat foods like Tuna, Cottage cheese, Almonds. Have something to eat every 3 hours.

What should my diet be?

 

[Mitch]

Superman, i'm just having a dig here, i prob wrong, but you will prob have to have a good mixture of proteins, carbs, like healthy food, red meats, nuts, dairy products lol, as i said im not sure just trying to help

 

[Inxy]

Holy f*ck man 5'9 @ 50kg is horrible man. You need to eat some healthy food and don't take people advice on eating junk food. Do you have breakfast at least? I usually have 6 eggs with two yokes and can of baked beans. Also eat foods like Tuna, Cottage cheese, Almonds. Have something to eat every 3 hours.

Almonds and Bananas are a good pre-workout food if you intended on starting a workout. I mix them in with a protein shake and it tastes wicked

Yeah man, I'm actually eating almonds atm. Almonds have good source of protein. It's got around 5.7g of protein in every 30g. I also eat dried bananas, which is very good for you.

 

[Strength_mybb_import21403]

i eat complete junkizza, subways, burgers
I work out every other day, but im limited because i dont have a bench

i do 3 x 12, 15 lb curl up
3x 12, 15 lb hammer curl
3x 10-15 push ups
then some sit up during the night
im pretty sure i can lift 20 lb properly now tho

 

[Eon]

Holy f*ck man 5'9 @ 50kg is horrible man. You need to eat some healthy food and don't take people advice on eating junk food. Do you have breakfast at least? I usually have 6 eggs with two yokes and can of baked beans. Also eat foods like Tuna, Cottage cheese, Almonds. Have something to eat every 3 hours.

Almonds and Bananas are a good pre-workout food if you intended on starting a workout. I mix them in with a protein shake and it tastes wicked

Yeah man, I'm actually eating almonds atm. Almonds have good source of protein. It's got around 5.7g of protein in every 30g. I also eat dried bananas, which is very good for you.

Chicken's also another great source of protein, and of course it tastes much better :grin:

 

[Joshua_mybb_import21010]

Almonds and Bananas are a good pre-workout food if you intended on starting a workout. I mix them in with a protein shake and it tastes wicked

Yeah man, I'm actually eating almonds atm. Almonds have good source of protein. It's got around 5.7g of protein in every 30g. I also eat dried bananas, which is very good for you.

Chicken's also another great source of protein, and of course it tastes much better :grin:

One of my mates ate a whole f*cking chicken before a game of football. I think he took the protein thing a little too overboard.

 

[Inxy]

Almonds and Bananas are a good pre-workout food if you intended on starting a workout. I mix them in with a protein shake and it tastes wicked

Yeah man, I'm actually eating almonds atm. Almonds have good source of protein. It's got around 5.7g of protein in every 30g. I also eat dried bananas, which is very good for you.

Chicken's also another great source of protein, and of course it tastes much better :grin:

Forgot to add chicken. thanking for reminding me on that.

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i eat complete junkizza, subways, burgers
I work out every other day, but im limited because i dont have a bench

i do 3 x 12, 15 lb curl up
3x 12, 15 lb hammer curl
3x 10-15 push ups
then some sit up during the night
im pretty sure i can lift 20 lb properly now tho

No point working out when you have a bad diet. have some food with good sources of protein with your diet.

Also split your work out to different days. For example do your chest on monday. Do your arms on Tuesday and so on.

 

[Haunter_mybb_import14889]

Also, DON'T DRINK CAFFEINE! It speeds up your metabolism.

Two ab workouts I started on if you want to add them into your workout. I find it's best to mix things up when it comes to crunches.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1OtnOC9Vy3U
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RY-N3qsDVlo

You won't be able to finish the second one first go so don't feel bad. I couldn't.

From there, you can do longer, more strenuous workouts. Like this for 30 mins:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U0YsEtJQZJY

 

[Glen]

Some of are right some of your are wrong. It's actually really simple.

Train, Eat, Rest.

4-6 reps on a heavy weight to gain muscle mass.
8-12 reps for muscle maintain.

I drink max-muscle size and strength every day after training and the day after. Since I have been doing this my max has been increasing every 2 weeks. Now benching 105KG which I feel will be my limit without steroids.

I use to be skinny about a year ago. Now I am nearly 80KG benching 35KG more weight then I could before.

 

[Ben Hartley]

Monday to Friday:
Wake up at 5:30am
Go to school, get back home at 3:30pm
Play tennis from 4:00pm to ~5:30pm (depends really on how much homework I have)
Go back home, take a bath, homework (not on friday), etc...

Saturday and Sunday:
Wake up at ~12am.
Lunch, go on pc, play PS3, back to pc, back to PS3, and go out.

Lolol I meant what you usually eat on an average day. Noob.:big_grin_wink:

l2write, eggs and toast with chocolate milk usually for breakfast. Rice, meat/chicken/fish/spaghetti for lunch, usually followed by a pizza or 2 if I'm more hungry. Cereal or a sandwich, or anything else that the maid prepares for dinner.

lols how much does a maid cost?

i will owner a maid one day haha

 

[tu y tu mama]

Lolol I meant what you usually eat on an average day. Noob.:big_grin_wink:

l2write, eggs and toast with chocolate milk usually for breakfast. Rice, meat/chicken/fish/spaghetti for lunch, usually followed by a pizza or 2 if I'm more hungry. Cereal or a sandwich, or anything else that the maid prepares for dinner.

lols how much does a maid cost?

i will owner a maid one day haha

Not exactly "own" one lol. But here in South America, at leas in Colombia, people from middle class + tend to have a maid to work for them, clean the house, prepare the food, etc. Here, they get paid the minimum, which is 600,000 COP (Colombian Peso), that is around 300 USD (sounds very low I know, and it is a little bit low, but you can live with that, and remember that people here spend in COP and earn in COP, not USD, 300 USD in USA is basically nothing). While she's here in my house, she prepares also her own food, and uses another bathroom.
But I know that in Europe or USA a maid is extremely expensive.

 

[Ben Hartley]

l2write, eggs and toast with chocolate milk usually for breakfast. Rice, meat/chicken/fish/spaghetti for lunch, usually followed by a pizza or 2 if I'm more hungry. Cereal or a sandwich, or anything else that the maid prepares for dinner.

lols how much does a maid cost?

i will owner a maid one day haha

Not exactly "own" one lol. But here in South America, at leas in Colombia, people from middle class + tend to have a maid to work for them, clean the house, prepare the food, etc. Here, they get paid the minimum, which is 600,000 COP (Colombian Peso), that is around 300 USD (sounds very low I know, and it is a little bit low, but you can live with that, and remember that people here spend in COP and earn in COP, not USD, 300 USD in USA is basically nothing). While she's here in my house, she prepares also her own food, and uses another bathroom.
But I know that in Europe or USA a maid is extremely expensive.

300usd a day? week?

 

[Strength_mybb_import21403]

lols how much does a maid cost?

i will owner a maid one day haha

Not exactly "own" one lol. But here in South America, at leas in Colombia, people from middle class + tend to have a maid to work for them, clean the house, prepare the food, etc. Here, they get paid the minimum, which is 600,000 COP (Colombian Peso), that is around 300 USD (sounds very low I know, and it is a little bit low, but you can live with that, and remember that people here spend in COP and earn in COP, not USD, 300 USD in USA is basically nothing). While she's here in my house, she prepares also her own food, and uses another bathroom.
But I know that in Europe or USA a maid is extremely expensive.

300usd a day? week?

Probably a day, no one works for 40-45 dollars a day