pushups

[craigl]

Giday,I am recovering from a long injury and currently cant do pushups due to muscle wastage. Can anyone advise me on the best chest exercise, ie bench press whatever, to do to get me back to the stage of being able to do pushups again? Thanks.

[Rich8888]

Tell us more about your injury and perhaps the others on this boiard can help.

[arthurb999]

I'd say use the chest machines and light weight. What happened?

[craigl]

disc degeneration in my back (L4/L5) and reluctance to further injury myself led to loss of muscle and strength, however I am detirmined to get the strength back now through careful exercise and realise that no results are going to come without some pain. I need to do these pushups though for my job (military).