What do you think about push up added weight on back?

[Vivaldi]

What do you think about push up added weigh on back? Can I gain chest muscle with weight added push up? Istead of doing high reps, would it be better do less reps with push up added weight on my back? Can I gain chest muscle this way? Do you recomend it?

[Truthatanycost]

You can gain chest muscle this way but it is very inefficient and cumbersome. The most important aspects of being able to gain muscle are progressive overload and diet. If you cannot easily increase the amount of weight used, monitor it and do so on a regular basis then it's not efficient.

The exception is if you are a complete beginner, you might get some beginner gains perhaps.

You are better of with a set of dumbbells and a bench although you can do it on the floor. If you don't have the room and have enough money, the Isokinator Green Giant is another way.

[Vivaldi]

I don't wanna gain any weight. I have high body fat already. I actually would like to lose a little weight let alone gain any weight.

[Vivaldi]

I hope this sentence I made makes sense.

[Vivaldi]

People that have high body fat cannot gain muscle without gaining weight?

[Truthatanycost]

When you train, you will burn fat and gain muscle thereby gain weight. However, having muscle mass is the best way of keeping your body fat down since it burns more calories.

In other words, muscle ways more than fat but burns more fat too.

[Vivaldi]

Yeah but you are talking about gaining weight, If I gain weight, it means I spend less calories than I consume, which means burning no fat at all.

[Vivaldi]

How am I supposed to burn fat if I gain weight?

[Vivaldi]

If my muscle will burn fat, then I would not gain weight when I gain muscle.

[Truthatanycost]

The reason why you may gain weight is because muscle weighs more than fat.

[Vivaldi]

1 kilograms muscle equals to 1 kilogram fat as weight. This does not make sence? Also gaining 1 kilogram muscle takes almost 2 months but you can burn a lot of fat in 2 months time. Also gaining muscle happens slow while burning fat can happen fast. What you say does not make sense.

[Truthatanycost]

You are correct, 1 kg is 1kg regardless of muscle or fat. What I mean is that a pound of fat takes up about four times the space of muscle tissue, so you can do the training and gain muscle and lose fat but still be about the same weight. Those who pay more attention to the scales than how their body changes may feel demotivated.

[Vivaldi]

What happens when we work less muscle on body, we gain as fat when we gain weight? Taking more calories than I spend may be harmful when I work less muscle on body, not all muscle. If I remain at the same weight, then I will not gain fat but the muscles I work will improve.

[Anonymous]

You can, there are other options as well, in using pushup progressions moving towards single arm pushups.

Basically whether you are doing bodyweight or barbell, you want to be in a similar rep range based on goals. If the goal is mass gain you want to be sort of 8-12 reps per set.

So increase the difficulty to be in that range.

[19MK34]

Yes, that will work. Its better to add weight than reps, assuming you can already do around 10. You'd be better off doing some form of bench press at a gym, but if for whatever reason you can't this is probably the best solution.

[Vivaldi]

I can do 30-35 reps. Why did you say 10? 10 is very bad.

[howzit2015]

I recommend doing dumbbell exercises to get a bigger chest, and finish your workout with just normal pushups.

[Vivaldi]

Push up added weight on back would be harmful?

[howzit2015]

depends where you place the weight. If you place it on your lower back it can result in an injury that can persist for the rest of your life.

[Vivaldi]

You are making me scared of the idea.

[howzit2015]

Yeah, if you're going to do it make sure to not place it on your lumbar region.

[Truthatanycost]

You've just reminded me of this pushup device I own. You can increase the resistance safely although it is still difficult to accurately assess progression. The bands are cheap and this will not only be safer than adding weight to the back, but probably even tougher.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YEWUbvFyips

[takumii]

Useless, concentrate on doing more reps than increasing weight, or doing variations , incline/decline.

[Vivaldi]

But Don't I need to use more weight to improve instead of doing more reps? They say We should not do more than 12 reps to improve muscle.

[takumii]

Hmm.. I think high reps is for increasing endurance and low reps is for increasing strength. But I wouldn't be putting weights on my back, try to do the push-up slower than usual , it'll make it harder for you if that's what you're aiming.

[Vivaldi]

I do 30-35 reps

[Anonymous]

I gain chest muscle with push up @F_M

[Vivaldi]

Do you mean push up added weight on back?

[Opinion Owner]

push up only.

[Vivaldi]

You must be very skinny if push up can make your chest look muscular.