is doing the push up whr u clap ur hands when pushing up more effective than the normal push up?
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nope it can actually damage your elbow joints if you do it in a hard surface. The reason people usually army or martial arts is to build up the motion of your body up and down, but then again you are doing other types of exerxises that help strenghthen the area of the elbow reducing the chances of damage. If you really want a work out that does you better for both stamina and strenght do them slowly down and slowly up.
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The Help of Your Good Hands: Reports on Clapping\n\nSteven Connor\n\nThis piece has been published in The Auditory Culture Reader, ed. Michael Bull and Les Back (Oxford and New York: Berg, 2003), pp. 67-76. It may also be thought of as part 8 of Windbags and Skinsongs, a chapter written for, but not included in my The Book of Skin (London: Reaktion; Ithaca NY: Cornell University Press, 2004).\n\nAdversity\nIt is to be supposed that clapping among humans may have evolved from the action of slapping and cuffing the body, often accompanied by jumping and stamping, which is characteristic of primates in states of excitement. It is sometimes suggested that clapping and stamping may have provided the first systematic music produced by human beings. Clapping the hands together has several advantages over slapping the body. First of all, it produces a much more emphatic, consistent and easily controllable sound. In clapping, one aims to do more than merely sound skin against skin: think of the flat, insulting patter of applause delivered with gloved hands. Clapping is actually complex action to perform: the truly effective or vital clap aims to compress and explode a little bubble or bomb of air, compressing and accelerating the air momentarily trapped between the palms, just at the sonorous ‘sweet spot’ so relished by tennis players. Despite the association of handclapping with childish glee, children take a long time to learn how to do it properly, though they seem to learn – or are taught - very early on to want to. \n\nClapping can be understood as a specialisation of the action of manual striking which is a distinctive accomplishment of primates. Most animals employ an action of tearing to attack or defend themselves: lions and sharks with teeth, owls and eagles with beaks, crabs and stag-beetles with claws. Some quadrupeds (mostly those whose real speciality is in fact running away) rely upon kicking, of which the action of hitting with the fist special to primates is a specialisation. Given the importance to primates of the actions of pushing, prodding, shoving, rapping, knocking, thumping, slapping, slamming, buffeting, punching, and the other actions proper to the hand, it is not surprising that we should have evolved such an interest in the actions of concussion or violent conjuncture in nature. Ad-vers-ity, the impacting of things, things that come up violently against each other: many other kinds of contact or encounter occur in nature, but the attention of human beings continues to be irresistibly drawn to such processes. The work of war continues to enlarge and develop the typologies of impact, through the club, the knife, the arrow, the bullet, the bomb, the missile. It is surprising that other ways of defeating or exterminating one’s opponent – through radiation, poison gas or biological agents, and other forms of infiltrating assault – should have taken so long to develop. Many of the words employed to designate enemies – the opponent, the adversary – suggest this meeting, collision or coming together of what stands face-to-face. This notion of adversity – the agon of the blow or smiting – has predominated in definitions of sound. \n\nNot that adversity is always adverse. The word ‘smack’ which can refer to the sharp sound of an impact with the open hand, usually on another expanse of skin, to the sound of the lips coming together and parting, and to a taste (as also in German schmecken), seems to suggest the compacting of sound, touch and taste in the primary action of feeding from the breast. Is not the birth cry itself traditionally elicited by the midwife’s smack, as though to start the infant’s clock of skin? William James (1890 2.481) refers to the suggestion (apparently first advanced in F.G. J. Henle’s Anthropologische Vorträge of 1876-80) that the action of clapping is a ‘symbolic abridgment of an embrace’. \n\nTriumph\nClapping is a neutralisation and diversification of the
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All of them are good.  It depends on the muscles you want to work out more.  I generally do the regular bench press with a closer grip as well as the incline bench press.  The incline bench press (your head is above your legs) will work your shoulders as well as your chest.  The decline bench press (with your head below your legs) will work your upper chest more.  The close grip bench press will work out your triceps a bit more.  The regular bench press basically works out your chest and a bit of your triceps/biceps (like a push-up).  Try mixing up which type of bench press you do every six to eight weeks, so your body doesn't get used to the routine (this will lead to better results).
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For a total body workout, few exercises beat the push up. It strengthens your arms and chest muscles, but it also tones your abs as it stabilizes your core muscles. For legs and lower body muscles, try jogging or doing squats. All of these workouts are relatively easy once you get going and they will give you a great start towards better physical fitness.
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Push-ups don't work your biceps, but do work your triceps and chest. For biceps, try doing pull-ups. they work your biceps good along with your lats, which really compliment your chest well. Do as many as you can of each every other day. Just like if you were lifting weights, you need to give them at least 48 hours for recovery, or you could overtrain them. \n\nHow long will it take to see results? It will not be overnight, but if you keep at it, you will have good results in a few months. For even better results, remember to work the whole body. Nothing looks funnier than a well developed upper body and scrawny legs.
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Push ups.  Easy to do. NOW DROP AND GIVE ME TWENTY !
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Push ups. Lots of 'em. Guaranteed to work.
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Pull up and chin ups. More or less same work out, we can consider one is the variation of the other. These both are basically stretch your back muscle, namely latissmus dorsi. Of coure it effects biceps (biceps brachi, brchio radialis) and fore arms too.\n\nSkipping and cyling are comes under cardio work out. It checks the cardiovascular fitness to the entire body. Skipping may be avoided as it gives the continous impact to your knee joint which may cause arthritis.\n\nHave a nice day.
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Your entire body is pretty much on a level with your heart when you're lying down. When you stand up, your head, shoulders and upper chest are higher than your heart. Standing up, your heart has to pump harder to push the blood up to your head (and your brain in particular has a good blood supply). The heart pumping harder means the blood pressure is raised.
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Absolutely.  There is no purpose to doing them.  Your joints in your fingers are not meant to support your body weight.  Look at how small your knuckles are.  Now imagine how small the tiny ligaments that hold them together are.  It's perfectly logical that you shouldn't do them.  You don't get anything more out of it than doing regular pushups.
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yea... i do clap ma hands alot.. weneva i m happy\nGOD bless ya\nT,
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When you put your hands together quickly. The resulting sound is called 'the clap'
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There is no such thing. The definition of clapping states that two hands are involved, not one, so whatever you're doing with your one hand is not clapping, no matter what.\n\nIt's like claiming that you're running on one foot, which is actually hopping, not running, because running implies that both feet are involved.
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its like an expression ...wen u meet friends u tend to give a hi5..its like a clap in the air.. if u know wat i mean..cant explain to u properly though..try it out wid someone..
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are you for real??? I'm just curious how old are you???? want to test your biceps try doing a 1-armed chin up....and yes it can be done.....oh and by 1-arm i mean only one hand is pulling...not one hand on the bar and one around the other ones wrist
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do you mean surface?  as in surface area?  \n\nassuming you do, if you push on something with the same force, but the pushing is being done with objects of different surface area, the object with less area will create greater preasure, and the object with more surface area will create less preasure.  it's like if you're wearing high heals versus flip flops and you step on someone's hand with all your weight.  which will hurt more?  it's the same amount of weight each time, but one has a much smaller surface that's pressing on the hand--->way more pain
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It is harder for taller people to do push-ups cause your arms are longer than that of a short person. So the actual distance that you would have to push yourself up from the floor would be substancially higher.