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@annmarkerls It's hard to lose weight while building muscle. I'd argue not to worry about your weight and concentrate on your fitness first. Eventually you can look into cutting methods, but if you aren't in good shape first, cutting will make working out an exhausting, miserable experience...

@nataliem https://dexalytics.com/news/muscle-density-muscle-quality/

@freak_accident It sounds like the issue is you're doing relatively light weight or small sets of bodyweight exercises. If you can only do a few pullups or pushups, you either need to find easier alternatives like incline pushups or band assisted pullups, or replace them with bench press and...

@werby You don't gain a lot from holding a plank that long so nobody bothers to train for that. If you trained to curl a 10lb dumbbell 500 times, it's probably possible, but if you asked a guy who easily curls 50 lbs for reps to do it there's a pretty decent chance he'd wear out before he got...

@lucyt25 The pushups won't hurt. The goal of 50 is ok, but if you're on set 4 and failing, just call it for that day. Also if you have a lot of muscle fatigue the next day, let your body rest, or at least find an exercise that works a different muscle group. If you overwork one exercise it'll...

@lucyt25 The best way to build strength in the bench press is to bench press. Pushups will build strength too, but you're not going to get a 1 for 1 tradeoff between increasing your pushups and increasing your max bench, if anything it'll help you build up the number of reps you can do in the...