eXtremE wrote:I have had many RSIs from both weight training and running simply bc of not giving my body enough rest and recovery time between workouts. Many ppl love the stress (exercise) part but hate the rest and recovery part.
If you are going to do the P/U's, I would not do them daily and I would slowly build up to avoid injury.
I think you have it exactly right.
Don't do them daily and s-l-o-w-l-y build up. Listen to your body, if you feel a little twinge, take extra days off. Find the right rhythm that fits your body. Not every exercise is for every body. We each have weak areas. Try to get fit, work around any specific weak point your individual body may have.
I must say,this certainly has brought out a very defensive nature in so many people.
We have those who feel the need to express anger that anyone would dare suggest any amount of exercise as a standard that a 60+ individual might strive for. Here I thought 10 knee or regular push-ups was hardly being excessive as a possible idea.
But then we had people suggesting that women can't or shouldn't be able to do
any. Possibly a carry over from the 50's when women weren't suppose to do any physical work. Today we have women doing almost everything.
Now we have others portraying doing 10 push ups as not really being about strength, but only a exercise of endurance.
Goodness, it takes less than 30 seconds to do 10 knee push ups... endurance? no strength benefit?
Wow, so much resistance to simple push ups.
As I and many others have posted in the push ups thread, no one seems to be doing daily push ups. I do them about twice a week, specifically so as to allow my 64 year old tendons to recover and heal from any possible strains.
Can't be responsible for some place that makes small girls do 50 push ups every single morning until they have injured wrists.
All forms of exercise can be done in a sensible manner, with a eye to one's age. They can all be done in a gradual build up.
Push ups can be done against a wall.... then against stairs or furniture, then on one's knees, and finally on one's toes.
Even then, you need not go all the way to the floor. You can go down to 3 or 4 inches off the floor.
I rarely ever touch my chest to the floor. Even the military testing push ups don't go to the floor.
So, lets just say push ups are a good exercise for some people. For those folks they can be one marker for health and strength.
Show me a 75 or 80 year old man or woman who can do 10 knee or full push ups and I expect they can also easily get up off the floor without assistance, and probably without the use of furniture.
However, doing such exercise during the 20 years prior to reaching age 80 is a key to retaining that ability.
And of course there are probably 10 other exercises that could be included to improve strength, flexibility, and balance, all of which go together to enable a person to age in a healthy independent manner.
I'd almost be afraid to mention some of the others out of fear they'd each be raked over the coals as being dangerous or overly demanding, or disrespectful of someone.
Really, I never thought mentioning push ups as a healthy marker for aging would get such responses.
Aiming for 10 push ups, knee or full, certainly doesn't seem like a extreme standard for folks who think nothing of aiming for a diet that has as a prime goal, eating 10% or less of their calories as fat.
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