In article <6olj4oF49cqaU2@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
>,
Chris Malcolm <cam@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:
> In misc.fitness.weights Jim Janney <jjanney@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:
> > frolib@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
writes:
>
> >> Hello. How often should I do pushups and squats? I'm a thin guy; I
> >> don't intend to lose weight. I don't want to use equipment, I need
> >> calisthenic exercises I can do anywhere. I want to do them to ward
> >> against stiffness, and also to keep a toned body without getting
> >> bulked up. Should I do them: twice a day, once a day, every other
> >> day?
> >>
> >> I also intend to the do bicycle crunches. How often should I do
> >> these?
>
> > You can do bodyweight exercises every day if you like. The reason is
> > that after you get strong enough to do ten to twenty repetitions
> > you're primarily training endurance rather than strength. Strength
> > training generally requires more recovery time than endurance
> > training.
>
> Unless like me you're no longer young and start doing that from a
> position of long term unfitness and only at first able to a very few
> of the exercise. I did that, and developed muscular strength so much
> faster than tendon and joint strength that by the time I'd got up to
> ten I'd seriously knackered joints and tendons. It took me over a year
> to recover. As a result of that experience I'd advise not doing any
> the next day if it hurts a bit, and waiting until the soreness has
> gone before resuming the exercise.
>
> I now do them nearly every day without problems, but it took a long
> time to get up to that level of robustness in all the musculature
> tendons and joints involved.
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