Can you get strong by just doing chin ups and push ups?

[jagec]

Seems to me like you'd build stamina more than strength.

 

[Mrvile]

Originally posted by: timosyy
I'm trying the 2 sets of pushups to exhaustion every other day thing. Not really to build muscle, but because I'm starting to feel rather unhealthy. Like I'll wake up and all my limbs feel sore/tired/weak... I have this image in my mind of my muscles atrophying to nothing

For the people on the first page talking about height and weight btw, I'm 5'7" and 120lb. Eat (more than) 3 meals a day, eat a lot, and don't do too much physical activity (tennis, a lot of walking, used to play soccer). gg metabolism, by all accounts I should be rather fat instead (I remember my first semester freshman year of college, I ate 3 meals a day & had a cheeseburger or two + cherry coke EACH night... didn't gain or lose a single pound. I shudder to think of how unhealthy that was now though).

Yeah I try to stay as healthy as I can with working out and eating but being a senior in HS and eating fast food almost every freakin day doesn't help at all

 

[Miramonti]

Chinups imo are the single most beneficial excercise someone can do for themselves.

The best way to improve on them is to strap some weight around the waist or ankles and do fewer reps. Then w/o the extra weights, it becomes so much easier to impress your friends.

 

[NGC_604]

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