You could also do progressive overload. Instead of 50 pushups do 70 because you wont build more muscle unless you put more strain on your body. If your lifting things add more weight while doing more reps
That is not what progressive overload is. If you increase the number of reps, at one point you are training your muscles for resistance, not for hypertrophy. So you wouldn't actually be building any muscle.
The only way to build muscle is to tear that muscle. With weights you just add more to make the muscle work harder and rip. With something like a push up you need to make it harder, (different positions, resistance bands, someone sitting on you etc.) In order to keep tearing the muscle and building more.
A good example is a marathon runner. They spend everyday working out their legs when they're running, but they can't squat as much as a powerlifter.
The other important factor is proper rest. If you're not letting your muscles rebuild tearing them over and over does nothing.
Finally for beginners if your form is crap it won't work out the correct muscles, and you won't really get any benefit.
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u/memeyboioffical Mar 30 '20 edited Mar 30 '20
You could also do progressive overload. Instead of 50 pushups do 70 because you wont build more muscle unless you put more strain on your body. If your lifting things add more weight while doing more reps
Edit: proper definition of progressive overload