Almonds my stomach has tolerated in the past but I don't like the taste of them plain... roasted is another story but I'm usually not as hungry these days and sometimes the roasted stuff adds sugar, the ones you linked look decent enough though assuming they don't just taste like plain almonds and then I won't eat them lol
Pushups aren't an efficient use of time for me personally, and trying to do them rapidly isn't great, slow and controlled there would be the key.. stair stepping I could see being more beneficial if you are talking about walking stairs and not pushups on stairs, but seriously whatever is working for you keep it up, you're doing great. I need to shift my exercises, always cardio in some form, but I like to mix up the muscle groups being worked to confuse my muscles and keep things different/fun.
Resistance training (such as pushups and/or lunges) seems to be more important as we age, especially when we get into our 40s and above., and yeah there are a lot of folks who revert to cardio (walking, running, stairs), and so don't end up getting enough resistance training because they wear themselves out (or use a lot of their time with various cardio activities), yet I suppose that many kinds of exercises and staying active would be more helpful than engaging in couch potato activities... and of course, many of us likely realize that diet, sleep and exercise are the three components of health that we can control...and sometimes we might get some of them wrong, and yeah, drugs and supplements are probably not good to get into if we might be able to regulate our body with lifestyle matters, and sometimes we might end up needing to take some drugs, even though doctors might push more drugs, tests and/or surgeries than would be to our own personal benefits.
Whoops. I forgot to respond to your assertion about "I don't do pushups because pushups are no good unless you do them slow."
What a bunch of nonsense. you likely can do them however you like which is better than not doing them, yet even not quite clean techniques can lead to cleaner techniques and even benefits in being able to do pushups for so many days in a row and even getting through some of the soreness that seems to be inevitable, especially for guys doing them every single day..
I did not like or want to do pushups prior to getting involved in the pushups thread, and I even recall being in some kind of an exercise program for one month in 2011, and one of the guys was doing pushups, so I tried a few pushups. I did not like them, and so I had been thinking that I probably did not do any pushups since 2011.. even though I did some weight lifting and even a lot of stretches, but not really pushups in any kind of a meaningful and/or memorable way since my memory of how I did not like doing the pushups in 2011 when I was trying to replicate what another similarly aged guy (a peer of mine) was doing.
I still don't really like doing pushups but I have been doing them every day for the past 331 days, and I am pretty sure that they have been helpful to me in a few ways.. sure it hurts and sure there could be some better efficiencies, but largely pushups can be done anywhere.. which is so lovely about body weight type exercises when any of us might choose to incorporate them into our lives, and yeah maybe I have to reincorporate lunges into my routine, which I was doing lunges during various periods while doing my pushups, but I became more obsessed with trying to get quantity of pushups, and surely doing pushups every day, I have at least gotten way better at pushups and some other strength (exertion) requiring activities, and even less sore in regards to the actual pushups, which so many parts have gotten sore over the past 331 days, and even in the past 2-ish months, I have added one set of slow pushups to my daily pushup routine, which have also gravitated towards 5 sets of pushups per day, which might be a bit excessive.. but I am currently thinking to get my quantity of pushups to the BTC dollar price, at some point.. hopefully.
At the same time, I still take the position that the slow pushups were not necessary for me to get benefits from pushups, yet my having had added some slow pushups to my daily routine in the past 2 months did end up adding variety in terms of how I am doing pushups and how I am measuring my pushups, and I probably would not have had been ready, willing and/or able to do the slow pushups until I had gone through a process of regularly, persistently and consistently doing faster pushups.
Also, I started to time my pushup sets about two months after starting the pushups, so I have been timing my pushup sets for about the past 280-ish days, and I probably also would not have timed my pushup sets until after I had been routinely doing pushups on a regular, consistent and persistent way, and then wanting to try to get more granular in terms of looking at how time fits into my pushup sets... which my push up sets, how they are done and how many and what kind of frequency also varied in the last 331 days of ongoingly doing pushups on a daily basis. I still am not going to claim to like doing pushups.
