Building Strength

So...I'm slowly getting back into things (swimming, running, biking)...just getting in shape in general. I've been doing push-ups in the morning (15 on the perfect push-up/ 20 with my legs on the yoga ball) and lifting (5lb weights, 3x12 Flys, forwards, backs) at night. I felt a lot of strength improvement over the first 2-3 weeks (I've increased the # of push-ups from 10/15) but now...not so much. In fact, I feel like they are much harder now than they were last week at the same repetitions. So my thoughts on the issue is that I am not getting enough nutritional intake to support strength growth. Anyone have suggestions? thoughts? ideas?It's just fatigue. What you should do is do that every three days, not every day. On every third day you can have a new exercise like legs, abs and arms. I like to focus on arms, so I rotate an aerobic day with a strength day.

So...I'm slowly getting back into things (swimming, running, biking)...just getting in shape in general. I've been doing push-ups in the morning (15 on the perfect push-up/ 20 with my legs on the yoga ball) and lifting (5lb weights, 3x12 Flys, forwards, backs) at night. I felt a lot of strength improvement over the first 2-3 weeks (I've increased the # of push-ups from 10/15) but now...not so much. In fact, I feel like they are much harder now than they were last week at the same repetitions. So my thoughts on the issue is that I am not getting enough nutritional intake to support strength growth. Anyone have suggestions? thoughts? ideas?It's just fatigue. What you should do is do that every three days, not every day. On every third day you can have a new exercise like legs, abs and arms. I like to focus on arms, so I rotate an aerobic day with a strength day.