40 pushups a day give you a six pack or smoothie?

which one did it?

Are you asking if 40 pushups a day will give you a flat stomach or abs? If you're only going to do 40 pushups, you're not going to get a flat stomach nor abs from that. Try a hundred at least, maybe two hundred crunches or something that engages your core more, you might get there.

There are plenty of core workouts but pushups aren't really going to help that.

I do 1001 a day.

Situps maybe? I do my 50 situps and 40 pushups daily. I use to jog too until my right knee started acting up (from old soccer injuries). So, I usually hit the cross-trainer instead.

pushups have nothing to do with your stomachmrmusicman247

[QUOTE="mrmusicman247"]pushups have nothing to do with your stomachBranKetra

It won't give you a six pack, it'll make you look like a gorilla.

[QUOTE="BranKetra"][QUOTE="mrmusicman247"]pushups have nothing to do with your stomachmrmusicman247

If you want abs diet.

The only abdominal exercises you need to do is the deadlift and squat. The two most effective core-exercises.

If a good diet and squat/deads don't give you enough results you can try adding hanging leg raises after each workout.

It took me literally 2-3 weeks to get a stunning sixpack back when I was a scawn (well around 150-160lbs). Now I'm 212lbs so its not exactly stunning anymore, but more like an average 4 pack. A month or two more of maintaining and I'll start a proper sprint program and a caloric deficit diet and I'll try get the same abs I had when I was 150lbs at around 200lbs. The project will take me about 6-8 weeks.

I dunno what to say about that man.BranKetra

Drink a smoothie between each pushup.

[QUOTE="XilePrincess"]

Are you asking if 40 pushups a day will give you a flat stomach or abs? If you're only going to do 40 pushups, you're not going to get a flat stomach nor abs from that. Try a hundred at least, maybe two hundred crunches or something that engages your core more, you might get there.

There are plenty of core workouts but pushups aren't really going to help that.

thegerg

I think the fitness people today are saying that planks are better for abs than push ups or sit ups.

This. You can crunch as much as you want for years and not see any results if your diet is poor. A good diet for just a few weeks and you'll see great improvements even without doing a single abdominal exercise.Mozelleple112

A "good diet" will have trouble making abdominals more visible without exercise (unless you have some great genes). Not everyone can diet for a couple weeks and have abs, many people are what we call "overweight".

As to your point in another post, crunches with proper form work just fine for strengthening the rectus abdominus and getting a 6-pack.

I'm still not sure if tc is serious.

I think the fitness people today are saying that planks are better for abs than push ups or sit ups.

whipassmt

thegerg

Everyone is born with at least a 6-pack, we know this. Dieting for a couple weeks will not cut 20-40 lbs off people, which is what many need for visible abs.

Don't get your last sentence "working out or dieting will not give someone abs": of course it will...

[QUOTE="BranKetra"]I dunno what to say about that man.dave123321

[QUOTE="BranKetra"][QUOTE="mrmusicman247"]pushups have nothing to do with your stomachmrmusicman247

[QUOTE="Zlurodirom"]

[QUOTE="thegerg"] " Not everyone can diet for a couple weeks and have abs" Nearly eveyone can. If someone doesn't have abs they have either had a very traumatic injury or were born with quite a dramatic defect. Working out or dieting will not give someone abs.

thegerg

Everyone is born with at least a 6-pack, we know this. Dieting for a couple weeks will not cut 20-40 lbs off people, which is what many need for visible abs.

Don't get your last sentence "working out or dieting will not give someone abs": of course it will...

[QUOTE="Zlurodirom"]

[QUOTE="thegerg"] " Not everyone can diet for a couple weeks and have abs" Nearly eveyone can. If someone doesn't have abs they have either had a very traumatic injury or were born with quite a dramatic defect. Working out or dieting will not give someone abs.

thegerg

Everyone is born with at least a 6-pack, we know this. Dieting for a couple weeks will not cut 20-40 lbs off people, which is what many need for visible abs.

Don't get your last sentence "working out or dieting will not give someone abs": of course it will...

Oh, so we're arguing semantics? The 6-pack I was refering to was the rectus abdominus the muscle that makes up the 6-pack. To lose the linea alba and the tendinous intersections in a traumatic inury would be pretty specific and damaging, I cant think of anything that would cause this, besides someone losing their entire rectus abdominus muscle, which basically leaves the intestines with a couple layers of fascia away from the skin. I don't know of any birth defects that target specifically the collagen fibers in those aformentioned "tendons".

Look I can do it too.

I said after a few weeks you will begin to see results, not a full sixpack. I was about 150-160lbs and had nothing but a flat stomach, no matter how much ab workouts I did. I simply changed my diet and 2-3 weeks later my 150-160lbs body had abs of steel. That was over a year ago.. Now I'm 215lbs and it'll take me 6-8 weeks do drop under 200lbs and get a sixpack again, but its going to require a nazi diet that I don't exactly look forward too, especially since I'm going on holiday in Dubai for 2 months :p If you're 215lbs fat, and not 215lbs muscle, it will take a lot more than 6-8 weeks of course. Mozelleple112

I'm guessing your responding to me?

If you had "nothing but a flat stomach", doing abdominal workouts with good form will cause muscle hypertrophy and you will see results. You probably were not using good form that engaged your abs. Diet alone will cause more muscle atrophy than diet+exercise, so your "abs of steel" were probably stronger before your diet, if you stopped working out while dieting.

Congrats on getting results like you want though, many people struggle with that, and you should feel accomplished you can do what you want (it seems) with your body and it responds like you wish.

You get abs from stomach exercise, not chest exercise....

If you want a six pack, try some exercises that actually work your abs, like russian twists, oblique crunches, sit ups, leg lifts, planks, etc.

[QUOTE="BPoole96"][QUOTE="mrmusicman247"] NOTHINGmrmusicman247

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maybe spread your arms out more. That will put more force on your chest than your arms, but it's not unsual to get sore there regardless. Just practice and it'll become less, while simultaneously working your arms.

No. What push ups will do though is strengthened your back muscles and your arm muscles. Actually, if your goal is to do more pull ups, then push ups are a great exercise (also helps to do a lot of cardio and eat healthier foods to lose that extra weight).

[QUOTE="thegerg"][QUOTE="XilePrincess"]

Are you asking if 40 pushups a day will give you a flat stomach or abs? If you're only going to do 40 pushups, you're not going to get a flat stomach nor abs from that. Try a hundred at least, maybe two hundred crunches or something that engages your core more, you might get there.

There are plenty of core workouts but pushups aren't really going to help that.

Mozelleple112

My diet isn't that great tbh, and I have a six pack lol.

pushups have nothing to do with your stomachmrmusicman247

You already have abs, it's part of your anatomy.

But you need low body fat % for them to be visible. In other words, nutrition/diet.

[QUOTE="Mozelleple112"][QUOTE="thegerg"] No. Crunches will not give one a six-pack. Proper diet will.TacticalDesire

My diet isn't that great tbh, and I have a six pack lol.

+ respect

Actually you won't get a six pack from doing pushups. If you want a six pack I recommend you do planks, those work your core abs. Push ups are for upper arm and chest strength.

The butler did it!

InEMplease

In the study...

...with the candle stick.....

....in the anus

Wait, 40 pushups a day can't give you a six pack, can I get my smoothie now?