1-minute workouts. Lets hear about them.

OK sounds like a scam, but there are lots of things you can do in a few minutes that makes a lie of "I have NO time to exercise". No props, weights etc needed. Just a space big enough to let you do what you do. (Also called Ghetto workouts or prison cell workouts). If you know 'em, lets hear 'em.

I'll start …

Pushups-to-exhaustion, three sets before noon. (Inspired by a YouTube video).

I used to have the goal of doing 100 pushups a day, didn't matter if it took me 10 sets of 10 or 100 at a time. I'd work my way up and figure it out. Eventually, I'd bang out about 3 equal 30-35 pushup sets a day every day.

Once I was comfortable with that, I'd try to do as many pushups in a row as I could. Once that peaked, I started to see how many I could do in 60 seconds. Now I'm up to about 75 in 60 seconds.

Now I'm doing 75 pushups over 1 minute 3 times each morning with rest in between. So I take a minute after I wake up to do the first set, usually the second set before I leave for work, and then the third set in a minute before I eat my lunch.

So that's 225 pushups in 3 minutes and feeling great before lunch.

I like pushups a lot … I think they are very underrated as an exercise (biceps, triceps, lats, trapaezius, deltoids). If you do enough of them, you start to feel it in your core because you are actually doing a plank. I also think they are a highly functional bodyweight exercise. You can also vary the position, location and placement of your hands if you get bored.

Sprint up a hill.

If you love pushups, you should grab a band.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rX-rWx0Ujzo

SEVEN MINUTE ABS!

2-3 sets of 10-15 reps of goblet squats with whatever you've got around the house to add some weight (I use my child). Go deep.

OK sounds like a scam, but there are lots of things you can do in a few minutes that makes a lie of "I have NO time to exercise". No props, weights etc needed. Just a space big enough to let you do what you do. (Also called Ghetto workouts or prison cell workouts). If you know 'em, lets hear 'em.

I'll start …

Pushups-to-exhaustion, three sets before noon. (Inspired by a YouTube video).

I used to have the goal of doing 100 pushups a day, didn't matter if it took me 10 sets of 10 or 100 at a time. I'd work my way up and figure it out. Eventually, I'd bang out about 3 equal 30-35 pushup sets a day every day.

Once I was comfortable with that, I'd try to do as many pushups in a row as I could. Once that peaked, I started to see how many I could do in 60 seconds. Now I'm up to about 75 in 60 seconds.

Now I'm doing 75 pushups over 1 minute 3 times each morning with rest in between. So I take a minute after I wake up to do the first set, usually the second set before I leave for work, and then the third set in a minute before I eat my lunch.

So that's 225 pushups in 3 minutes and feeling great before lunch.

I like pushups a lot … I think they are very underrated as an exercise (biceps, triceps, lats, trapaezius, deltoids). If you do enough of them, you start to feel it in your core because you are actually doing a plank. I also think they are a highly functional bodyweight exercise. You can also vary the position, location and placement of your hands if you get bored.

Now do them slowly. 3 seconds on the downward movement and then 3 seconds on the upward movement, with as little stop at the top and bottom as possible.

Explosive and fast is easy when your doing pushups…and for most exercises. Plus, generally speaking, technique goes to shit with rapid movements and most people will rely more on their stronger/dominant side and use momentum instead of muscle to do the work.

Go slow. Get a band or put some weight on your back. Go down til your an inch or less off the ground without actually touching. Then do sets slowly with your arms at different widths.

-burpees.

-go from cross legged sitting to a handstand by planting your hands and rotating up.

-one legged deep squats, slow.

-plank.

-get an ab wheel

-burpees.

Great minds think alike. I used to do 100+ pushups/day in three consecutive sets. Easy to do just before jumping in the shower or to start the day.

Lately I've been doing 100-ups a few times a week. Although more of a running form/technique drill than strength/endurance.

https://www.irunfar.com/2014/04/dynamic-core-stability-the-100-up-reloaded.html

One minute workout?

Break one off and go back to sleep.

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Explosive and fast is easy when your doing pushups…and for most exercises. Plus, generally speaking, technique goes to shit with rapid movements and most people will rely more on their stronger/dominant side and use momentum instead of muscle to do the work.

Depends on your goals. I'm specifically working on explosive arm movements for those 3 minutes because it benefits my riding. Slow movements are good too, for building strength, recruiting more muscle fiber and for joint stability but that's another session. One-arm pushups are a good check for left/right balance.

Came across this pushup article today. Thought you might enjoy.

Came across this pushup article today. Thought you might enjoy.

Like I said, technique. Fast generally equals sloppy and easy.

Like I said, technique. Fast generally equals sloppy and easy.

any exercise routine is only as good as the posture used thru out the movement so fast does not generally equal sloppy and easy .

Like I said, technique. Fast generally equals sloppy and easy.

Even if it is sloppy, that sloppy form might actually have some carryover when one is flying down Afternoon Delight and misjudges the first big rock and is close to eating ones handlebars, no?

Would you agree that the article goes further into pushups than instructing one to go slow with different hand-width?

Came across this pushup article today. Thought you might enjoy.

Yeah, lots of enlightening info and details … but who would have thought pushups could be such an anal-retentive activity? Lots to digest and think about, but I've been around long enough to know that last year's fitness/health advice often ends up being next year's punchline.