do pushups make u weaker?

"mike" <[email hidden]> wrote in message news:[email hidden]...

Quoted message said:

i havent done push ups in awhile...cuz this article i read like 10 years ago
is still in my head...it mentioned doing push ups on a hard floors can make
u weaker overtime...is this true?

Exercise makes you weaker. Until you recover.

I've read lots of wacky claims and articles in the past. It helps to
have a BS-meter. Or a healthy amount of skepticism.

David

David said:

mike said:

i havent done push ups in awhile...cuz this article i read like 10 years ago
is still in my head...it mentioned doing push ups on a hard floors can make
u weaker overtime...is this true?

Exercise makes you weaker. Until you recover.

I've read lots of wacky claims and articles in the past. It helps to
have a BS-meter. Or a healthy amount of skepticism.

Or half a brain.

The Queen of Cans and Jars said:

David said:

mike said:

i havent done push ups in awhile...cuz this article i read like 10
years ago is still in my head...it mentioned doing push ups on a
hard floors can make u weaker overtime...is this true?

Exercise makes you weaker. Until you recover.

I've read lots of wacky claims and articles in the past. It helps to
have a BS-meter. Or a healthy amount of skepticism.

Or half a brain.

I've heard that if you balance a beer bottle on the back of your head while
doing pushups, it will make you stronger, not weaker. The key is the beer
bottle. Something to do with the compound exercise of having to balance it.
And it has to be done on berber carpet, not shag carpet. Not that I have
any shag carpet anymore mind you. And not that I'm old enough to have any
shag carpet mind you...
--
-Larry

David said:

"mike" <[email hidden]> wrote in message news:[email hidden]...

Quoted message said:

i havent done push ups in awhile...cuz this article i read like 10 years ago
is still in my head...it mentioned doing push ups on a hard floors can make
u weaker overtime...is this true?

Exercise makes you weaker. Until you recover.

I've read lots of wacky claims and articles in the past. It helps to
have a BS-meter. Or a healthy amount of skepticism.

I believe that much better results may be achieved through the use of
soft floors!!

On Wed, 16 Feb 2005 06:32:23 GMT, [email hidden] (The Queen of

Cans and Jars) said:

David said:

mike said:

i havent done push ups in awhile...cuz this article i read like 10 years ago
is still in my head...it mentioned doing push ups on a hard floors can make
u weaker overtime...is this true?

Exercise makes you weaker. Until you recover.

I've read lots of wacky claims and articles in the past. It helps to
have a BS-meter. Or a healthy amount of skepticism.

Or half a brain.

Given that brains are originally issued in whole units, if there are
people possessed in later life with only "half a brain", it follows
that there are any number of half brains going begging.

Perhaps these should be made available to those people that Elzi, PS,
Little Old Lee and Hugh et al declare to "not have a clue"!!

I could certainly do with another "half" to supplement the
non-functioning part of my cranial cavity, in order that I might be as
clever as these worthy burghers!!

I suppose that if you switched from benching 275 to doing 1 set of girl
pushups on a hard floor they would "make" you weaker. But that's just
my very humble opinion. YMMV.

No mike pushups do not make you weaker. They make you stronger. By
doing pushups you will strengthen you Serratus Anterior muscle which is
connected to you ribs and this will cause a build up of muscle and a
loss of fat.

rl54stud said:

No mike pushups do not make you weaker. They make you stronger. By
doing pushups you will strengthen you Serratus Anterior muscle which is
connected to you ribs and this will cause a build up of muscle and a
loss of fat.

Surely would only build muscle, what if the push-uper was eating too
many calories!

"mike" <[email hidden]> wrote

Quoted message said:

i havent done push ups in awhile...cuz this article i read like 10 years

ago

Quoted message said:

is still in my head...it mentioned doing push ups on a hard floors can

make

Quoted message said:

u weaker overtime...is this true? something about how the muscle reacts
against the hard floor..

im thinkin bout startin to do pushups again...but on my carpet...the

floors

Quoted message said:

is still hard though even with the carpet..

Maybe if you do pushups they'll make you strong enough to press the shift
key down and make capital letters.

"Selene" <[email hidden]> wrote in message
news:[email hidden]...

Quoted message said:

"mike" <[email hidden]> wrote

Quoted message said:

i havent done push ups in awhile...cuz this article i read like 10 years

ago

Quoted message said:

is still in my head...it mentioned doing push ups on a hard floors can

make

Quoted message said:

u weaker overtime...is this true? something about how the muscle reacts
against the hard floor..

im thinkin bout startin to do pushups again...but on my carpet...the

floors

Quoted message said:

is still hard though even with the carpet..

Maybe if you do pushups they'll make you strong enough to press the shift
key down and make capital letters.

the shift key muscles need rest. not active rest. rest.

that's the secret to my perky hyoogeness

eb white was hyooge btw

hth

whit

mike said:

i havent done push ups in awhile...cuz this article i read like 10

years ago

Quoted message said:

is still in my head...it mentioned doing push ups on a hard floors

can make

Quoted message said:

u weaker overtime...is this true? something about how the muscle

reacts

Quoted message said:

against the hard floor..

This reminds me of my mom telling me that the latest miracle hair
treatment was cat [censored]. She said it just to see if I would put cat [censored]
on my hair.

I did not try the latest miracle hair treatment.

mike said:

i havent done push ups in awhile...cuz this article i read like 10 years ago
is still in my head...it mentioned doing push ups on a hard floors can make
u weaker overtime...is this true? something about how the muscle reacts
against the hard floor..

Only if they're made from Maple, and this is due to the fiber structure
of the wood. Oak floors are fine for pushups. Ceramic tile is okay, too,
but not vinyl (toxic chemicals permeate the skin into the muscles). Concrete
is okay as long as it was trowled by hand and not with a power trowel -
something about residual electrons from the motor...
HTH

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mike said:

i havent done push ups in awhile...cuz this article i read like 10 years ago
is still in my head...it mentioned doing push ups on a hard floors can make
u weaker overtime...is this true? something about how the muscle reacts
against the hard floor..

im thinkin bout startin to do pushups again...but on my carpet...the floors
is still hard though even with the carpet..

mike

Real men do clapping pushups on water.

--Falooley