ups worked, how now to maintain?
3rding ludwig_van. Without progressive overload—always increasing the amount of resistance so you’re maxed out at most 12-15 reps—you will not continue to build muscle. Pushups are a fine bodyweight exercise, but bodyweight exercises in general tend to devolve into endurance-enhancing exercises after a few weeks when you are accustomed to doing them. At that point there is not really any further gain, strength-wise or appearance-wise. When you’re talking about visual appearance there are really just two variables involved: how much fat you carry, and how much muscle you have. Non-sport exercises are all based around either reducing the former or increasing the latter, or both. By and large heavy weight training is the only way to continually trigger muscle growth/retention. If you are eating at a caloric surplus, it’s growth. If you are eating at a deficit, i.e. dieting, then the goal is retention. You won’t pack on much muscle if you are on a diet, but you will preserve the muscle you
