crazyed27 said:
Push up are great for strength and endurance at the same time. Push up will make you stronger. Push up will build your chest muscles up to a certain point. There are plenty of different hand positions you can use to target different parts of you chest, shoulders, and triceps, while doing push ups. If you want to get some serious strength and endurance form push ups work your way up to 100 non stop push ups and by the time you can do 100 push ups non-stop you will be very happy with the results on your body! Both visually and physically!
Well for starters, push ups can be done with a different approach.
1) You are doing the usual push ups, the more you can in a row : ENDURANCE, CARDIO
2) As soon as you can do 5 push ups, put your legs higher, say ona chair. If that is too easy, put those legs even higher. If that is still too easy, make it a one hand push ups, legs on the floor, arms on a table for example. If you still can do 5 of those push ups, then lower your body near the floor.
I personally do the one hand push ups. Think about it.
In order to keep your body straight, how many muscles do you need when performing 1 hand push ups? You said it... ALL of them ( nearly) be it, the abs, back, triceps, pecs, even legs !
For the biceps and other part of the back that do not work, you should do chin/pull ups. YES it works the back also. if you can do more than 5 in normal position, try to move your legs foward. Now that's somehow more difficult
In the army, at least the canadian one, in which I'm working at atm, there pushing you at the max number of push ups you can do. Most of the time, they would tell you do do a half way push ups, ( you are now in the middle, not completely to the ground) and then keep ths position until they decide it's all good
When you are able to do 1 hand push ups, with your legs elevated, come back and tell me if push ups are good or not...