Some eaiser variations of push ups to help you build the strength to do a traditional one!
I was always frustrated how my P.E. teachers wanted all of us to go “all-or-none” and basically hurt ourselves without letting us build up from square-one like in the first gif. Then they’d fuckin yell at us for not doing it right >:|
Knee-pushups is not square-one.
When I got my first personal trainer, she had me doing push ups almost standing upright in the weight lifting bars so that I could do 15 reps and 3 sets of them. It’s more about the technique of the push up, and if you’re pushing too much weight, you can’t exersize the correct muscles within their tolerances. This post is pretty important to know cause of that.
I’m reblogging this here because as someone who spends almost the entire day on bedrest, it is incredibly difficult to find exercises I can do at my strength level.
Please ignore this if it is not for you. I know that exercise is not for everyone or every illness.
Loads of reps of something gentle can work your muscles pretty hardcore if you do enough of them.
Part of intro to P90X (DEATH TRAINING) is just standing, making a fist with each hand, holding your arms perpendicular to your body (like a kid ‘flying’ around as an airplane) and then moving your arms in tight circles for a minute, then reversing direction of the circles for a minute, then doing BIG, slow circles for a minute, then repeating the reversed version that.
Like, full ‘60 seconds’ ‘minute’At first its like ‘lol just my arms whatever I can do this all day’ and then it turns into ‘omg my arms are going to fall off this is terrible gravity plz no’
Also, water bottles can serve as light dumbells for gentle repetitive lifting (bro do you even lift) if you don’t want to dump cash into exercising. Having a bit of air in the bottle will help your forearm no matter what you do, as you try to keep it steady.
Laying on your back and lifting one leg up – just keeping it hovering over the ground with your toe pointed can work your abs. Hovering both legs at the same time is harder.
Hovering both legs while making little ‘swimming kicks’ isstupid and i hate ithard.Hell, even just tensing your abs and keeping them tensed for periods during the day will work them – no need to flail around a ton, or set aside a bunch of time for it.
This! Even if your muscles atrophy so severely you can’t fight gravity—and mine have, bring bedridden for six weeks will do that—you can still exercise and get stronger. (And if/when you do finally get strong enough to lift $bodypart against gravity it feels AWESOME. Everyone can see that you did it, including you. Take that, gravity!)
I go to a yoga class for disabled people, so some people are doing chair yoga, some mat yoga, some against the wall
and some days I’ve done all of those – and my teacher repeats this a lot
your body is not a machine – it is constantly changing, and you’re going to have good days and bad days
so if you normally can do 100 reps and one day you can just do 80 – that’s not a bad thing, you’re not letting yourself down, maybe the next day your form will be crisper and you can do more, or maybe it’ll be 80 again, you do as much as you are comfortable doing, because every little helps
if it aches a bit that’s not bad – but if it hurts stop
For PE in middle school, one of our warm ups was the arm circles mentioned above. One day some kid decided to claim to the teacher that it wasn’t exercise. Instead of scolding him, the teacher goes, “okay, then you wont have a problem if we continue doing them.”
Needless to say, the rest of the class was not too happy with him that day.
Tag: exercise
From Twitter.
is it weird that as i got through the tweet my understanding of it lessens?
If you had a recent ancestor who went through starvation it actually altered their genetics and may have passed down genes to you that make you hold on to fat. So this tweet is more accurate than you’d think.
Seriously, my body is expecting the next ice age.
OH MY FUCKING GOD.
MY FUCKING GREAT GRANDFATHER LITERALLY FLED LEBANON DUE TO A FUCKING FAMINE AND MY GRANDMOTHER AND DAD AND I ARE ALL FAT AS FUCKING HELL.
FUCK ME RUNNING I DID NOT KNOW THIS.
…That’s going to apply also to anyone whose recent ancestors voluntarily dieted a lot, isn’t it. Diet culture long-term causes more obesity. Sure, it takes decades to show up, but anything you’d hear today about childhood obesity would reflect that. Exercising is still very good for most people, but trying to lose weight shouldn’t be the goal for most people, because a) it usually doesn’t work very well or it comes back and b) your kids or grandkids could end up with extra wonky metabolisms. (And while fat itself is actually not that much of a problem if you keep your fitness up, it can be hard on your joints. That’s actually the biggest health risk if you’re “small end of fat,” under 40, and active–joint problems.)
THAT MOTHERFUCKING ARTIFICIAL FAMINE THAT’S IT I’M GONNA FIGHT THE ENGLISH
Honestly, “I’m gonna fight the English” is a good reaction to a lot of things.
the ‘obesity epidemic’ in america is probably due to a combo of our grandparents living through the great depression and our parents being teens and young adults during the days of twiggy and heroin chic and the rise of diet culture.
combine that with the fact that gen x was the last generation allowed to play outside, pretty much, and the fact that everybody nowdays is working service jobs that exhaust them without working their muscles, and there is basically no way on earth you’re going to get a fit and healthy population without changing the basic structure of our society.
don’t fall for the hype. don’t focus on weight. it’s actually far more dangerous to be underweight than overweight. even with what is clinically defined as ‘morbid obesity’ it’s possible to be healthy as a horse, if your bone structure and metabolism are set up for it and you’ve got lots of muscle to support it.
on top of that, the charts for ideal weight are at least a generation out of date. they were compiled based on a population that didn’t regularly get enough dairy and fresh produce, at a time when girls didn’t do athletics in school. young women in the 1960′s were measurably smaller than young women today. their bones were thinner, they had less muscle mass, their shoulders were more sloped, they had a smaller lung capacity – society discouraged them from being physically active past the age of ten or twelve, and they finished their physical development in a sedentary setting.
boys were plenty active, but just like the girls, they were eating just about nothing but red meat and starch and some mushy greens with the vitamins boiled out. the thing where the poor get fat because sugar and fat are cheap wasn’t really happening yet, especially in rural areas; a farm kid’s diet was beef and wheat in the north, pork and corn in the south. “eat your vegetables” was such a hard sell because everything else was expensive and bland and overcooked. you’ve seen the godawful cookbook excerpts from that time. mushy green beans and fried spam on a bed of mashed potatoes, seasoned with nothing but a pinch of white pepper.
sorry, that was kind of a tangent. i guess my point is, even the people who ate well by the standards of the time were malnourished compared to the standard of today. your lunch of a matcha cucumber smoothie and a cobb salad with one ounce of ham, one ounce of turkey, and 15 kinds of fresh vegetable, would give them the explosive shits because they’ve never had that much fiber in one place before. there’s more vitamins and antioxidants in your black bean fajita dinner than they saw in a week.
so first of all, the idea of trying to be the same size and shape they were is absurd.
and second, if malnourishment in one generation primes the next two for protective fat retention, the combination of that and the incredible wealth of nutrition we have available to us today is obviously going to make us HYUGE.
instead of fighting it, we should embrace it. we could all be HUMAN BOULDERS OF MIGHT.
Seriously. I’ve been underweight most of my life (childhood/growing years) and I have heart problems now. Like eating is no joke. I have difficulty identifying being too full as opposed to just full and although i love food and eating I will simply forget to eat because the hungry feeling is familiar and doesn’t register as important. And it’ll send me out of whack I miss one or two meals and I get physically sick. I can’t dance for more 3-5 minutes at a time without a twice is long break. (I love dancing-its my prime exercise)
Like I’ve know people on all sides. I knew someone struggling with being overweight and those problems right alongside mine. This adtitude hurts alot of people, I have been told I look great and beautiful, while 5 minutes before I had been light headed from walking up a flight of stairs.
Its scary when you faint in public and they give you an apple to go on your way. And someone that same day or next is like… You look so great!
I feel like shit! Thanks! It reinforces bad habits and thoughts for everyone.
i feel like shit thanks
it reinforces bad habits and
thoughts for everyone
^Haiku^bot^9. I detect haikus with 5-7-5 format. Sometimes I make mistakes.
“your human body is mediocre” jeez haikubot read the room
We really need to normalise exercising and eating well for reasons other than losing weight or building huge amounts of muscle. I’ve started going to the gym recently to relieve stress and help me sleep but despite the fact that I fit into shirts and skirts in size small, I’ve been asked if I’m trying to lose weight numerous times.
Here’s a list of non-aesthetic reasons to exercise:
- relieves stress
- keeps you healthy
- improves sleep
- can have a positive effect on mental health
- makes you stronger and fitter
- something to focus on other than work/school/uni
- IT’S RECOMMENDED AS PART OF A HEALTHY LIFESTYLE
Reduces risk of numerous diseases
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