40 pushups? A day? That's it?

 

My 2 cents: If you want to gain muscle you need to be lifting weights along with taking in a gram of protein per pound. Pushups, situps, pull ups, and chin ups only tone your muscles, you're not going to bulk up really just doing those. Amino acids are also extremely important when bulking up. I'm 6'0 160 lbs I use ON Gold Standard 100% whey w/ 24g per scoop. Mix that with 2% milk (8 ounces) and it totals around 32g. It's what works for me. Some of the other whey mixes have much more protein though, if that's what you're looking for. Also, be sure to wait at least 30 minutes before you consume your shake/meal because if you don't your body will just metabolize it. And remember, no pain, no gain. If you're muscles aren't on fire you're wasting your time.

 

When you wake up you need to eat breakfast and a good one. Eat egg whites..etc. I would take a protein shake before and after your workout. Eat 5-6 meals a today spread apart 2-3 hours. Drink a lot of water. Make sure you sleep 7-8 hours so your body can recover and rebuild muscle fibers that were ripped during the workout. Remember don't eat when you feel hungry eat before that.

 

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all in one set.

How much should I be doing?

 

Not to thread jack here guys but its along the same lines. Im 6' 3" 230, I have some excess weight in my mid section I am desperatly trying to lose. What do you guys think would be the best way to shave a couple pounds off. During the summer I ran 4-5 times a week and got down to 218. School started and the weight came right back on.

 

Be sure you're getting whey and casein protein. Lots of powders have blends, but whey is fast acting while Casein will stick with you through the day as your body needs it. Your body can only process about 30-40g of protein at a time at a resting heart rate, more like 45-50g at an elevated heart rate so don't waste your time with huge amounts all at once, space them out.

Pre-workout drinks will make a huge difference, I alternate NO Shotgun and 1 M.R. so my body doesn't get used to one. Either eat some complex carbs like oatmeal an hour or so before the workout, or take karbolyn or something similar. Carbs should be almost only in the morning, and before/after your workout if you workout at night.

Hydrate at least 2 hour before the workout, lots and lots of water.

If you want a really good tasting protein try BSN Syntha 6, the chocolate milkshake literally tastes just like a milkshake, but its higher in calories than some, around 200 per scoop as opposed to most with like 120.

 

quite frankly as many as you can. Never stop at 1 set, also how long are you holding yourself down for? If you want to build anything using body weight you have to add resistance to simulate weight. Do long breathed pushups, and in a variety of forms (traditional, black diamond, hands high spread pointed in, shoulder level hands 90 degrees outwards, etc.). You should be doing 100+ in a day, of course it takes time to get there.

 

Going from 250 to 175 I'll let you know everything I've done.

- Drink water / tea's only
- No red meats (maybe once a month), stick to chicken, turkey, and fish (although I don't eat fish).
- Replaced mayonaise on sandwiches with pesto, limited intake on 'sauces'.
- NOW Acai / Mangoni
- Multi Vitamin
- Adderall
- 3 days of 1hr + workouts, 2 days of 30min+ workout, 2 days rest 'ish. Not really on a daily/calendar schedule as much as it was: 1day heavy, 1day light, 1day heavy, rest day, repeat.
-EAT WITHIN THE FIRST 30 MINUTES YOU WAKE UP. At least a bowl of cereal in intake or so. Not only is it good for your brain but your metabolism A) Kicks in faster and B) Works more efficient/better.

I have a bad left maniscus, jogging and heavy running on it is very hard because of impact. Because of this my cardio had to stick to jumping to high speed/power walking.

My hour+ workouts looked something like:
~15min meditation
~5 min stretches
~15min walking (5min warmup slow, 10 min power)
~10min tone - Max pushups, Max situps / crunches, Max pushups, Max V-Ups/Leg lifts, Max Pushups, Max v-ups/crunches, Max pushups
~30 min power walking
~10min tone - Max pushups, Max situps / crunches, Max pushups, Max V-Ups/Leg lifts, Max Pushups, Max v-ups/crunches, Max pushups

the middle walk varied from 15-30 min depending on my energy / desire / blah blah

also when I say 'Max' I mean, my sets weren't in numbers, I simply did as many as I could, 45 sec breather, switched to a different body part, so on and so forth. While determination is great, ALWAYS listen very carefully to your body. It's better to take a step down for a day, then to push yourself to far, pull/injure something and be off the routine for days or longer.

In all honesty a majority of actual weight loss, just came not by necessarily eating like a health freak... but just being concious of what I'm intaking. Cutting soda / sugary drinks / fast food / overly processed foods.