Beginner Fitness: Beginner's Push-up for increasing strength

Beginner's Push-up for increasing strength
Lost 8 lbs of muscle mass in 2 months, should I be worried?
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Beginner's Push-up for increasing strength

Posted: 18 Jul 2020 11:41 AM PDT

1)Wall Push-ups

2) Kneeling Incline Push-up

3) Kneeling Push-up

4) Incline Push-up

5) Normal Push-up

6) Diamond Push-up

Do as many as push-ups you can. I would suggest doing 15 repsx2 sets each push-up variation. Try 3 push-up variations on day 1 and another 3 on day 2 and keep doing it for 15 days and after that increase your reps and sets.

Here's the video of these push-ups: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kqC7A_B7p88

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Lost 8 lbs of muscle mass in 2 months, should I be worried?

Posted: 18 Jul 2020 08:22 PM PDT

Hi, I'm 18 years old and around 215 lbs, I recently started committing my time to getting my dream body and here's the things I'm doing to get to my goal.

Measuring my weight every morning right before a shower.
Eating my calorie goals (or close to) everyday. I have my app set for me to lose 1lb/week and it says my maintenance calories is around 3100 cals/day but I'm eating a deficit of around 500
I work out around 5-7 days a week depending on what I'm feeling like (more days works better for me as I find it's what keeps me actually going to the gym)
I try to eat 200 grams of protein a day, sometimes it's hard to reach as I live at home and eat my mother's meals (very blessed)
I have an Apple Watch that i track calories on

My goal is to reach around 200-195 lbs and be at below 10% BF, the build I would love is a Chris Evans captain America type build.

The scale I use is one of those smart scales that uses Bluetooth and I love it but I am kind of skeptical about it. It gives you weight, BF%, fat free body weight, bone mass, water weight, muscle mass, and a lot more.

I was comparing my data from when I started weighing myself to now and I was happy to see I lost around 14 lbs over 2 months (the first day I measured myself middle of the day so it's kind of inaccurate but still) but then I looked at muscle mass and it says I lost around 8 lbs.... which is not good news to me obviously considering I want to be gaining muscle and losing fat. I would be fine with the data if it was something like I lost 10 lbs of fat and 4 lbs of muscle because I would be losing more fat than muscle.

Anyways, are these things trustable? Or should I just keep doing what I'm doing and not worry too much about the numbers?

Thanks so much for reading.

TL;DR Lost 14 lbs of weight in 2 months, 8 lbs of that being muscle mass according to my smart scale, should I trust it or no?

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Needing a playlist to accompany you in to the gym, listen to this!

Posted: 18 Jul 2020 04:57 AM PDT

https://open.spotify.com/playlist/4Db8ibGlrJHXfy9yhmlViZ?si=wSSTQzHgQy-ipSeAtn7Xew

This really helped me.

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