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Originally Posted by Broadsword2004 In terms of strength, regular pushups are useless; once you can do about 12, you've got all the strength from them you can get. |
What about one-handed, raised-feet, handstand, etc.? There's still a lot of opportunities from pushups. Even doing them super-slow: 30 seconds down and 30 seconds up. Boxers do all their floorwork (bodyweight exercises) after they've done everything else that day, so they do them not for conditioning but for strength gains. Many of them do their exercises very very slowly and make impressive gains from them. A 135lb boxer I knew who had done nothing but pushups once came lifting with me and managed to bench press 175lbs, pretty impressive for doing nothing but pushups that whole time.
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If you can benchpress a lot, but only manage 25 pushups, that means you may be able to punch hard in a fight,
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Even that doesn't say a lot
It's all about technique that says how hard you can hit. I dunno how many pretty-boy muscleheads my buddies and I have brawled with, but needless to say they can't hit as hard as they think. Like Jack Dempsey once said, "Those big muscle guys aren't nothing but punching bags with limbs." Don't remember who said this next one, but it's relevant: "I love punching muscle boys, it's like hittin' a girl."
Still, weight training definitely has its advantages over bodyweight exercises, but bodyweight exercises has a few over weight training. That's why I use both of em to get the best of both worlds.