Why it is so important to do push ups?

[jackiech]

Why it is so important to do push ups?
If you do punches you get more power and speed instead you do push ups.

[Robinf]

Push ups are another way to strengthen pectoral and tricep muscles.

Robin

Surrender yourself to nature and be all that you are.

[Repulsive Monkey]

are quite detrimental to upper body internal softness. One can impede the flow of Qi severly thorugh doing push ups, and, well, they are so limiting in their function, its better to do some over all exercise than something like that.

[SwaiingDragon]

there are dozens of ways to do them-

if you don't belong to a gym try this set

15 with your upper body on a table -working you lower chest and upper abs

15 flat (traditional)- working your center chest

15 with you legs raised- focusing more on your upper chest and shoulders

(repeat all 3 sets two more times)

keep in mind the closer your hands are together the more you are working you triceps and the center chest- like i said there are dozens of more ways to do push ups-

stretch aftwards- any chest exercis will tighten you up-

the benefit is stamina-

[Apprentice]

and pushing power can be important, which is developed from pushups...
If you are a grappler you need to be able to push your opp. hard, and pull for complete control...also, it looks funny when someone is starting a fight with you and they push you and you dont budge(rooted)...and u push them and they fall on the ground, hehe, well i get a kick out of it...not to mention it makes ya look good ;)

"True victory is giving all of yourself without regret"-Ryu

"Your best move is the move you regret not doing"-Fei Long

"Are you prepared to fight today? Someone else is as we speak"-Apprentice

[IronFist]

15 with your upper body on a table -working you lower chest and upper abs.

Does someone else want to take this one or should I?

Iron

"Now why the **** would you censor "d.ork?"

Ironman PostLog: 1100 - 11/20/01

[IronFist]

oh yeah, Robin, don't forget pushups will nuke your front (anterior) deltoid muscle as well!

Iron

"Now why the **** would you censor "d.ork?"

Ironman PostLog: 1100 - 11/20/01

[rubthebuddha]

it's all yours, iron

-rtb

[northern_fist]

I find that doing pushup are great for not only the arms and pecs but great for total upper body conditioning. Sometimes I do it for stregth and sometimes i'll do it for stamina

great ones for the arms are

on the knuckles and with the palms down fingers towards the toes

for conditioning knuckles and on the back of the hands

for upper body
do as many as you could 100
really push it
build character . If 100 isn't enough
well do as many as possible for 1 minute
( see fang shen do 1 minute working Jan 2001 Inside Kung Fu )


Dennis Momy

[Robinf]

Thanks, Iron,

I knew I could count on you. With that in mind, I'll leave it to you about the pushups on the table working lower chest.

The pushups I do are:

flat: on palms--elbows out and elbows in, on fists (for my poor little wrist), hands/fingers make a triangle.

I also use push up bars because of my rehabbing wrist. I'm at about 90 - 95% with my wrist.

Hey, Iron, have you had any luck with one armed pushups? I imagine those work the stabilizers (abs, back--I haven't memorized all the back muscles yet) more than regular pushups, taking away from working the pecs and delts. Curious.

Robin

Surrender yourself to nature and be all that you are.

[SwaiingDragon]

everyone has to have a commment...

[Silumkid]

shaking head sadly...

OK guys, I know this is a kung-fu forum and all, but why is there always somebody who says (forgive the 'Return of the Dragon' quote) "Physical training is quite useless!"

Please pull your head out of the sand. If your internal practice is such that it suffers any time you use a muscle, you need to rethink your training. Hey, have any of you "physical training only hurts your kung-fu" guys ever heard of something called the "yin/yang theory"??? You know, light/dark, male/female, soft/hard, internal/external? Anybody?

"I'll use my bare hands...against any weapon!"

We are trained in wushu. We must defend the Temple!

[GunnedDownAtrocity]

robin . ..

please don't think i'm being an a$$ cause i really am curious about this.

i know i usually do my best to offend people but this isn't my objective now.

what do pushups do for your boobies?

seriously . . . does it lift them, make them smaller, push them out because of the muscle being built behind, does it do anything at all?

i know what bodybuilding does to boobies, but that's way differant than toning up with bodyweight exercises ... isn't it?

where's my beer?

[GunnedDownAtrocity]

i do an internal style and we do pushups.

where's my beer?

[Ginger Fist]

Why it is so important to do push ups?

--its not.

If you do punches you get more power and speed instead you do push ups.

--if u want 2 b able to strike with power, train striking with power. s.a.i.d rules. push-up mechanics all wrong 4 striking, plane of orientation wrong, recruitment patter wrong, speed of movement wrong, rate & angle of loading wrong.