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Re: Situps and pushups

Manco <manco@dollars.net> wrote:
>> Should I continue to do my exercises the way I was taught in JHS?
>>
>Of course. Pushups have to be all the way to the ground and up, straight 
>back, and slow reps to get the proper contraction.

Have to?

The U.S. Army teaches pushups go as low as horizontal
upper arms.  Not all the way to the ground.

Of course, there's nothing wrong with extending your range
of motion when exercising.

But "have to" is kind of subjective.

				--Blair
				  "What you get out is something like
				   what you put in.  Plus bigger muscles."

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