How do the results differ between a workout of 100 pushups straight vs. 100 pushups throughout the day?
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More repetitions of a movement that exerts your muscles in a shorter span increases size.
Repetition throughout the day will increase the amount of times you can do a specific movement with weight working against it.
100 pushups in a 5 minute span is like a 2-lane highway opening into a 4-lane highway. Might not be as busy but can handle more stress
100 pushups over the course of 24 hours is like putting strategic traffic lights to increase throughput, while traffic congestion happens you will see a dip in performance (i.e heavy weights you cant lift)
Obviously you have a definite weight limit being your body so limits can be reached with strength.
Like everyone else in here I’m going to speculate but it would seem to me that throughout the day would be better, as long as each time you are going until muscle failure.
Due to the fact that no matter how good of shape you are in, your form will suffer the more fatigued your muscles are. So if you hit muscle failure after 30 or 40 you should take a break because it doesn’t do you any good to crank out 100 pushups if 60 are in poor form.
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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