How many pushups should i do day and night?

[Guest Jay Smooth]

Hi i'm Jay i just have one small question how many pushups should i do day and night or lifting weights since i have no support from parents and cant get on T and how long before results start to show really need a answer.

[JJ]

Jay perhaps a muscle building site would provide better answers for you. How to build muscles best is actually pretty complex from all I have read and depends on lots of factors. Right now even though it goes against the grain you need to follow the advise for females because that is how your body chemistry is functioning. You also need to follow the advise for someone your age because uneven muscle development while you are still growing can cause deformities in bone growth.

While you are still growing and developing what you do to your body can have consequences for life. Like binding wrong now can cause permanent deformities so can overexercising some muscles and not others.

Lastly before you follow any advise on exercise please see your Dr for a checkup. People die every day from heart defects and other conditions they were not aware of before starting a lot of exercising

Wish there was a simpler answer for you but the body is not a simple organism

Johnny

[Guest MisterB]

Try 20 every other day until you build up enough muscle, then increase according to what you're confortable with.

[Guest Draik]

Well, like Johnny said, building muscle isn't simple. You can't just do a bunch of pushups everyday and expect see results.

When it comes to pushups, or any weight lifting exercise, you don't want to over do it. When I first started weight lifting, I did the same exercises everday. After some research, I found that was the wrong way to do stuff. If you want to see results and avoid injury, you have to let your body recover. Push ups are a good exercise, but you'll hurt yourself if you do them everyday, especially several times a day. If you want to see results you have to focus on different body parts every day. On monday you might do exercises that work out your biceps on triceps, tuesday might be chest and back, wednesday might be legs, etc. That's how body builders do it because by breaking it up like that, you are allowing your muscles muscles to recover.

Another thing you want to think about when it comes to weight lifting is your diet. If you want to see results you need to eat a lot of protein. When you lift weights, you're doing damage to your muscles. After you workout you always want to eat some protein like a protein bar, or shake because it helps repair your muscles. Overall you want to make sure you get a balances amount of carbs, fats, and protein into your diet.

That's just a short version of basic weight lifting stuff. I'm not really sure about how soon you'll see results, and since you aren't on T, I don't know if you'll see the results you want.

Some resources that I find really good:

100 pushs: If you have an ipod/iphone there is an app I found a while ago that helps you get to 100 pushups. It is good to help you build up the number of pushups you can do. It tracks your progress and has a good plan that doesn't push you too musch and lets you have rest days.

Bodybuilding.com: I made a body space on there and it's really good. They have a huge database of workouts you can do and a video that shows you proper technique. There is a section for teens, and it has a teen transformation section where you can see how other teens bulked up or lost weight. They also have really great workout plans. You just select your age and gender, then they match you with weight lifting plans they have, and they are designed by professional body builders. The plans give you a weight lifting plan and also gives you meal plans.

The library: You should go to your local library and see what books they have. I found a lot of books about weight training at my library that really helped me out.

[Guest Cal]

If you're serious about gaining upper body strength, I would buy a pullup bar.I got one on Amazon for about $13. Since then I've stopped using freeweights and doing pushups, and my muscles have only gotten larger and more defined.

If that's not an option, then figure out the max pushups you can do (burnout), then try to do that many every other day. Every other week, see what your burnout is again. But do them just once a day, not twice. Your muscles need time to rebuild.

Also, do aerobic exercise like running. This will help you lose overall body fat to look more male (even if you're already skinny)