What qualifies as strength training?

betaleonis
betaleonis Posts: 176 Member
edited November 2024 in Fitness and Exercise
Does this include push-ups, crunches, etc, in addition to lifting weights?

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  • CannibalisticVegetarian
    CannibalisticVegetarian Posts: 1,255 Member
    bump
  • JennieAL
    JennieAL Posts: 1,726 Member
    Yes, those are strength training. Any exercise used to build strength, size, etc. is included. You're limited though in body weight exercises to lifting/pushing your own body weight... at some point you might want to add in free weights. But a lot of people prefer body weight training. There's Convict Conditioning and You Are Your Own Gym... those are both body weight training programs.
  • Huffdogg
    Huffdogg Posts: 1,934 Member
    There's some semantics arguments about this out there. Some people will tell you that a lot of this stuff qualifies as "resistance training," but that "strength training" only applies to resistance workouts designed to make you stronger. This is splitting hairs, but isn't quite as silly as it might seem at first glance. There are a lot of people out there wasting a lot of time moving weights around that aren't making them any stronger, and it's possible that is why some purists make that distinction.
  • Barracuda365
    Barracuda365 Posts: 37
    Bench Press
    Shoulder Press
    Dead Lifts
    Squats

    Thats the big ones
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