...Excessive pushing motions can set up a strength imbalance in your shoulders, as well as contribute to inflexibility. You need to at least match your pushing rep for rep with pulling...even better is 2:1 pull/push ratio.

Troll on juju, troll on.

Troll on juju, troll on.

• DanMartin Said:

Dan:
Or not. He posted this once and got a suggestion to move it, and then another suggestion to move it.
jej

• jej Said:

I just looked at his total posts.

• jej Said:

I just looked at his total posts.

• DanMartin Said:

Nah... ya gotta look at registration date, too: October, 2007. Can't go with troll here. Instead, let's DISCOURAGE this 500 daily dips idea. This sounds like such a shoulder killer, it's hurting just thinking about it.

3. Beware overkill.

Hn example of overkill:

"If jumping off a small box helps my vertical leap, then jumping off a building will help that much more."

Whenever I think about this, I'm reminded of my uncle who survived a fall of 39 stories off a building. Unfortunately, the building was 40 stories. Get it? He was fine for 39 stories; it was the last one that did him in. Of course, my uncle was an optimist. At the 26th floor a lady leaned out the window and asked, "How’s it going?" My uncle answered, "So far, so good!"

Okay, sorry, enough of that. This little warning illustrated by the statement above is perhaps the most ignored in most people’s training programs.

"If two sets of curls make my biceps pump, I'll do twenty and the pump will stay with me until the lights come on at the club at three in the morning."

Well, the pump doesn’t last that long and what are you doing at a club that late anyway?

Basically, I'm talking about overkill here. You shoot the deer, then pump it full of twenty more shots "just to make sure." It's the most common error in sports:

"Sixty grams of fiber a day is what some guys take to cut fat, so I’ll take in 160."

"The Bulgarians train six times a day, so I'll train twelve!"

"Arnold got up to 240 in the off-season, so I'll get up to 480 and be twice as big!"

You’ve seen it. You've done it. We all do it. Stop doing it.

I don't know what a "ground dip" is. If it's a push up call it a push up. If it's something else please explain.

• DanMartin Said:

Me, too. You may be right.
Last month, I tried 500 reps of STFU one day. I felt I had a lot of personal growth as a result, but no visual results.
jej

Juju:

As honorable as your intentions may be...I'd seriously reconsider doing this. The shoulder is a delicate joint and held in place mainly by muscle. There is a mentality out there that if 1X of a movement is good, then 10X will be that much better.

T'ain't necessarily so.

There is a fellow on the internet that hawks a bodyweight conditioning system called "The Royal Court" that has as one of its goals the daily performance of 500 full squats (Hindu squats.) He makes all kinds of outrageous claims about the benefits of this and how the knees are free from damage, etc. ad nauseum.

On a lark, (and because I'm that way) I did 510 of these styles squats one day. No real problem from this one episode...but I can see where the daily practice would result in over-use stress.
(I've read an author that vigorously disagrees with this fellow...he had actually interviewed Indian wrestlers whose knees where trashed by these style squats in excessive reps...but I digress.)

Push ups aren't the best choice for cardio...though a very useful movement.

Even water in excessive quantities can be harmful....

Wicked