Push-Ups?

[Haboob]

I'm only 14 but I want to start some light working out. I know I'm young but I want to increase my strength and fitness. Im skinney as as twig and I have to start somewhere.

However I heard push-ups runied you shoulders if you do them while you are still growing and young? Is this true?

 

[Alpine]

That's rubbish, lots of kids do pushups as conditioning for a lot of sports.

Just do standard pushups, no wild variation from the standard.

Also do sit ups, star jumps, burpees, chin ups etc.

Do these one after another then go back to the start. Over time do more reps, more exercises, more circuits.

When you are a bit older this will be and excellent base for weight training. You certainly will be fitter and possibly more muscular, but you need to eat more for that.

 

[Haboob]

Ok thanks

I had situps planned but definately not starjumps. But what is a burpee and a chin up? I also had planned on flexibility stretches, similar to those war-up stretches you do befroe sport, anwyay the stretches are suposed to strengthen your muscles if you do them regularly over a long period of time and increase flexibility.

Well suposedly.

About the eating more thing. Do I have to purposely eat more or will I just get hungry quicker? lol. Sounds stupid I know. I thought eating more just made you fatter...? (no offense to fat people!)

 

[naoi deag se deag]

Pushups ruined my shoulders. When I was 15 I decided to do 300 a day on top of my 3 hour swim practices. This plan ended a month later and my shoulders still pop and grind

But if you do them right you should have no problem. Keep your shoulders tight and your arms screwed into their sockets. And don't do 300 a day.

 

[pff]

join the water polo team, that's the best thing you can do when you are young

 

[Haboob]

Erm we don;t have a water polo team, even if we did I wouldn't play in it.

Well yeah 300 is a bit much...


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I would just like to add a few questions on top of my above post.

Considering I'm 14, I don't raelly have to do all that dieting crap with mesuring how much protein i eat and all that crao do I? As long as I have a BALANCED and SENSIBLE diet?

Also how mcuh should I do per day and work my way up to?

Any other tips. I'm kind of taking this seriousley so.. yeah.

Thanks again people

 

[Alpine]

You talk about strength and fitness, then about being skinney. So I'm assuming you want to gain some mass as well, not just strength and fitness.

To do that I'd suggest getting interested in basic nutrition, why you need protein, carbs, fat and what they do. Understanding about how calories help you to gain muscle etc.

If you want to be fit and strong for your weight I'd just eat well and get on with training, but weight gain of any quality requires good knowledge.

At your age start off with circuit training, ask your sports teacher or get down some sort of club that does sports you like.

Get down the library or look at websites on fitness, I don't uderstand why people come on here and ask for fitness advice when there's billions of Gigabytes on the subject elsewhere.

 

[Haboob]

Lol. Thanks man. Should have realised that earlier. I alredy play plenty of sport though, not to say I'm good at it. That is part of this, to get better at sport.

Anyway... *goes and looks on some fitness websites*


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Struggeling to find a good website. Anyone help?