I’ve been doing butterflies and presses with dumbells of 15kg on the right and 18kg on the left (I’m a rightie, so I need to harrass my left side more for balance). One arm at a time to strengthen my core in the process.
Although butterflies and presses with dumbells actually develops more balance and control, I just found out that this is much lighter than doing actual push ups. Today, it was my resting day, but I wanted to do one set of compound exercises to “make it a day”. So I did 1 set of squats, good mornings, crunches and… pushups. However, I actually had a lot of trouble doing the 12 reps of push ups.
My scale told me why. When I’m doing pushups, I’m actually pushing a weight of 86kg. That’s more than 40kg per side, and therefor at least 2 times the weight I’ve been using.
Because of this, I’m going to integrate that session of compound excercises into my lifestyle. Each morning I’ll just do the single set of squats, good mornings, crunches and push ups. Starting with 12 now and increasing with 2 every week.
