Group: General Fitness & Exercise

General Fitness & Exercise
Created: 2011/12/31, Members: 382, Messages: 54581

Various general exercise related discussions. Find out what it takes to reach your fitness goals through daily effective exercise. With so many options we try to find out what works best.

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Clap push-ups

KalphaKomega
KalphaKomega
Posts: 4
Joined: 2005/06/11
United States
2005/07/02, 02:20 AM
Hi I was wondering what the benefits for clap push-ups were. Do they help increase muscle mass or what?
GuyIncognito
GuyIncognito
Posts: 63
Joined: 2004/01/10
United States
2005/07/02, 05:09 AM
They mainly increase power. They are what's known as a plyometric exercise. that sort of thing is good if you've been training a while and are interested in a particular sport where you need to build up power to be good (e.g. boxing, martial arts etc). There are other plyometric exercises which can increase the power in your legs or calves too, all of which are useful if you play sports and are interesting in improving your ability to play your sprt of choice rather than building muscle. Although you will build some muscle doing them, so far as I can see, the best way to increase muscle mas is through progresive weight training.

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