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Plenty of exercise. Try hundredpushups.com for a nice, easy-to-start program.
by gcv 16y ago
Plenty of exercise. Try hundredpushups.com for a nice, easy-to-start program.
- wazoox 16y agoBe careful that pushups can get hard. I had shoulder pains after doing more than 50 pushups a day for a few weeks (down to 30 now). Vary exercise, and particularly do aerobic exercise, walking, biking, running, swimming, skipping rope... The best is to do some exercise every day.
- flatline 16y agoPlus, strengthening/tightening the pectoral and forward deltoid muscles is not really a good starting place if you are going to be sitting hunched over a keyboard all day. Exercise that focuses on good posture (read: strengthening of back and abs) and cardio is probably a better starting place.
- jamesbritt 16y agoI was having some back pains while sitting, but after I started running, and lost some weight (205 lbs -> 180 lbs) they stopped. And they stopped more, I think, from the running than from the weight loss.
- freshfey 16y agoYour shoulder pain is not the result of the pushup program, but more the result of bad form, disbalances in your body (one muscle group is stronger and has to support the other one -> more tension on the weak) or other health issues.
- wazoox 16y agoOh yes it is. I had ankle and knee pain running more than 40 km a week, too. I'm simply getting too old for more than 2 hours of intense sport a day, I had to get back to 60 to 90 minutes.
- matthew-wegner 16y agoPlenty isn't as important as high-intensity exercise. The hormones you're looking for are released in relation to intensity, not duration. You're much better off with a 20-minute workout that leaves you gasping than you are milling around the gym for an hour and a half.