Pushups For Fat Loss and Lean Muscle

How do pushups burn fat? They burn fat in a couple of different ways. To burn fat more effectively and more quickly you should try to use an exercise that works a lot of muscles at one time.



As far as most fitness gurus this goes against everything they are taught in the class room. These ideas are proven over and over again to work.

Most people would never think of using pushups as a way to burn fat, well think again. The more muscles you use at one time the more calories and fat you will burn at a faster pace.

So let me explain how pushups will burn fat and build lean muscle at a fast pace. Number one, doing pushups bring a lot of muscles in to play. Legs, upper back, lower back abs, chest, shoulders, lats, triceps, biceps, neck, and forearms. So I just named just about the whole body and not many exercises are so complete.

Number two is that pushups are like sprints they train the anaerobic system not the aerobic system.

Anaerobic means "without oxygen" meaning you get out of breath in only seconds.

There are only a few bodyweight exercises that will tax the body like pushups. Sprints,. Jump rope sprints, burpees just to name a few, meaning any of these exercise can only be done for a couple of minutes without having to stop and catch your breath.

Pushups trained like sprints will bring you a huge pay off. Meaning when you sprint you may sprint for 15 to 30 seconds, rest and repeat for a number of sprints. You don't see many fat out-of-shape sprinters. Sprints are almost always lean and muscular.

You can get the same great results using the same concept with pushups. Quick short bursts this will train your system almost the same as sprints.

As difficult as sprinting for 15 to 20 seconds is try doing the same with pushups try pushups as fast as possible for 15 to 20 seconds rest 30 seconds and try to keep it up for as long as possible and tell me how your body feels it won't take long for your body to want to give out. But instead of stopping just like sprints, the longer you sprint in a workout the slower your times gets. But instead of stopping when your tired and out of breath and your muscles want to quit try doing half pushups meaning go half way down and keep pushing, it's tough.

Compare a runners body and a sprinters body; then compare someone who trains pushups to the gym rat who spends his time bench pressing and standing in front of the mirror doing curls. The sprinter and the man who trains with pushups, who do you think is in better shape? Now this is not always the case but more then not this almost always the case.

Try the above concept and let me know how you feel. Hell, you can even try some sprinting with the pushups, try this for every sprint you do try pushups with it. If you sprint for 10 seconds walk 10 seconds then do pushups for 10 seconds. It's up to you to have fun with it.

John Grube B.C.S is an expert on the subject of bodyweight training He has over 25 years of training experience and is the author of How to build explosive pushup power, The Wildman Training

Program manual, The New Expanded version The Wildman Training Course and The Super Strength Playground Training Manual.For more info http://www.wildmantraining.com

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