Weight Training or Press Ups?

Weight Training or Press Ups?

Weight Training or Press Ups?

Nick, I have several friends who go to the gym and lift weights, i used to do the same with average results, but i have one friend who is of fair build and ripped and hes never lifted a weight, he simply does bodyweight exercises - around 200 press ups a day and his body is much better than all my friends who go to the gym 2-3 times a week. i've started on the press ups myself and do 100 press ups a day at the moment, can someone tell me if my friend is a one off, or is the press up only / bodyweight exercises routine actually a better option than the weights?

Nick Mitchell (Personal Trainer): It depends how your friends' weight train. Having said that, all thing considered then your mate is definitely a one off. In order for your body to adapt positively, by growing muscles and getting fitter, you need to push your body further with each successive training session. The perfect way to do this is with resistance training with weights, you can modify the excercises to make them more difficult, or add weight to make the lift harder, both would be hard to with sit ups and push ups. There's never been a successful bodybuilder, who succeed solely using press ups, - they get limited very quickly.

In order for a muscle to be stimulated to get stronger / hypertrophy (grow) you need to lift weights of a high intensity ("intensity" means weight relative to your 1 repetition maximum lift) - about 80% (although this is obviously a very broad and simplistic explanation).

100 rep press up sets will build endurance, but do very little for size and strength. Think marathon runner versus sprinter.

Weight Training or Press Ups?

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