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Substitutes for lifts?
Lisa_Ookoo
Posts: 134 Member
I sometimes have limited access to weights, and I was wondering if using a rowing machine is comparable to doing barbell rows, and if push-ups can substitute for bench press. I know that any workout is better than nothing, but wondered if I'm hitting all of the same muscle groups.
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Yes, those substitutes should work just fine.0
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Any alternative is better than nothing0
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Have you tried just using your body weight and doing higher reps? For example, instead of 15 (or whatever) reps on the bench press, push-ups for 30-60 seconds, or glut bridges (single leg, elevated, regular, etc) or squats for 60 secs instead of X amount of reps with a weight?0
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Something is always better than nothing. It beats sitting on the couch and doing curls with a spoon and a bucket of ice cream0
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I'm actually just using body weight training as strength training. I will say toned and saved my muscles during my weight lossing journey and still I'm on that journey. The results are slow for getting shredded but it works I can see some muscle after loosing around 33 kg. So it works. But now I just started with weight training I see myself not doing that great job as expected started with lifting small weight. But as a cardio respective I'm a beast. I'm just telling my experience here I hope that helps
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