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Strength & Powerlifting
Created: 2012/01/01, Members: 39, Messages: 16459

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Weighted PUSH-UPS!??!

GOWAR
GOWAR
Posts: 361
Joined: 2001/10/24
United States
2004/04/23, 03:16 PM
hows it going? I was told that when you are doing a push up it is approximately 70% of your body weight you are lifting, if I weigh 217 and i wear a 40 pound book bag while i do push ups, will that be a realistic chest and strength workout compared to the bench press. Does this have the equalivent of benching 192 lbs. ?????
Relique
Relique
Posts: 187
Joined: 2004/03/17
United States
2004/04/27, 10:41 AM
I think there is a motion/technique differance, I found after doing some hard core benching for a month and a half, and my pushups were the same as before I did that. Though I bet doing benching will help with pushups by strenghthening the muscles your using, and vice versa.

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arondaballer
arondaballer
Posts: 1,054
Joined: 2003/06/14
United States
2004/04/29, 09:30 PM
I think pushups can be very agonizing when you do burn outs. I used to do three sets of burnouts a couple times a week and that really helped me.

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