hello
i wanted to know will doing push ups for about 10 weeks give you a strong toned body?
i wanted to know because i do pushs up only once a week and run the next 6 days of that week and i don't know if
i'm getting any stronger.

doing push ups only work out some parts of your upper body and arms. You need to do other exercises that work out other muscles as well. Do everything, sit-ups, weights etc.

Yes, and sometimes you wont notice it, but you will start noticing if you do it more!:D

My PE teacher told me that if you do weights that are heavy, you get large muscles, but if you do weights that arelight but for a long time, you get strong.

Doing push-ups once a week wont really be enough to see any real improvement. You should do them everyday, because it only takes a couple of minutes right? An easy thing to do is, each night before you goto bed and after you wake up, do as many press-ups as you can. Then you should see an improvement.

I dont know about a toned body though. Equipment would probably be best for that, but most people dont have it. There are things around the house you can use though. For example, if you want abs, you can do sit-ups, and to make them harder you can put your feet up on a stall or your bed or something, and you can get a good work out like that.

your right. i will start increasing the times i do push-ups and start going to the gym thanks.

if you are just looking to tone your body, running and pushups and sit ups are the way to go. but if you want to build a lot of muscle mass, you will either need to do a lot of pushups and sit ups, or use weights. running should always be included as it helps tone your body. if you were just doing pushups and sit ups, you would gain muscle mass, but it wouldnt show as well becuase running burns off the fat above it. which reminds me that i should probably get back into running with my work out.

if you do enough push-ups to wear yourself out, or make your muscles feel

tired, then that's good

i've been doing that for about 3 days and can tell

that my muscles are getting bigger

try pumping iron brah

you need to go to the gym buddy! work on those musles.. and more than once a weekk.. jeez! do some weights.. run.. protein shakes..

Just take sterioids! Kidding, don't do that. Well a YMCA membership can help if your in the U.S. Or, if your still in high school than you might have a weight room there, that you could use. But, push-ups will get you stronger, you won't be ripped or anything by doing them for a couple of weeks, but you should begin to see a difference sooner than you think!

This post has been edited by bk2070: Dec 8 2007, 04:44 AM