How do the results differ between a workout of 100 pushups straight vs. 100 pushups throughout the day?
In: Biology
Pavel Tsatouine would disagree, would recommend you listen to Tim Farris’s podcast with him and Pavel.
The idea is, if you did it all at once in that manner, you’d be depleted later in the week effectively limiting your overall output.
Distributing the workload is better throughout the day, similar to ‘Farmer Strength’ where they’re freakishly strong and always lifting and doing things every day. They’re performing heavy or epic lifts, but only doing 1-5 reps then actively resting by doing other activities that are less taxing. By doing this, you give adequate time for your body to replenish energy stores, relieve fatigue in the involved musculature (peripheral nervous system fatigue) and also the mental fatigue and stress (central nervous system fatigue) from performing that bout of activity.
Think quality over quantity, with more practice time over the long term versus the swole feeling you get from doing large amounts of activity in the short term, but being effectively incapacitated for part of the day, or the better part of the week. Effectively, too much too soon – this can lead to injuries as well
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