Pushups following by pain good?

Question

Last night my coach made me do 30 push-ups after every exercise in Football just for missing a practice. That's 120 push-ups in 5 hours.(they weren't perfect) I'm a big guy and could do about 10 good ones. I'm working out and stretching a lot but after yesterday, i can't feel my triceps, biceps, or shoulders. is this REALLY gonna pay off and make me stronger or should i just say s***w you and quit. (i'm going to have to miss at least 5 more days)

Answer 1

Hopefully the pain is just what one normally feels after a lot of excercise. If the pain is excruciating and is accompanied by other symptoms like a bump in the groin area or pain in the testicles or anywhere in the abdomen region, then you may have acquired a hernia. If you think that may be the case, you can get checked out to see if you have gotten a hernia. It sounds like you did enough push-ups to justify being in a lot of pain just from that though. There may also be some injury to the muscle themselves. which to some degree is what you want when you excercise, but there are injuries to muscles that you would require surgery for, so you don't want it taken to that point. Also there are ligaments and tendons that may get injured in too much exercise, or you can get a sprain. If the pain lasts beyond one or two days, then I would say you should get checked out by a doctor to see if one of these things is the pain you are feeling. If a coach is causing you injury your parents could also consider litigation against the coach for causing you to be injured in such a way- especially if it is to the point where you require surgery or undue distress which effects your everyday life. Otherwise, again, if the pain goes away in a day or two, then it is probably nothing to worry about. Except bigger muscles and better endurance.

Answer 2

Ok, so, I am a small guy (5,3, so I weigh a lot less than you), and I can do around 160 push ups nightly. No, I dont mean to brag, and no, I didn't start that way. I can do that and feel fine after, actually, feel great. I have been working on that for over a year however. Really, its just working up to it. Try doing a few a night, I started with ten, whatever your comfortable with, and just keep working up whenever you feel like you can do more.

Now, with what happened to you. Do not wreck yourself. Being incapable of feeling yourself is just bad for you, it does not feel good, and thus should not be done. You can really wreck your muscles from doing that. You have to condition your body. What your coach was probably doing was punishing you... You might get stronger from that, but not noticeably. Just do what I told you. Work up to it.