What exactly do push ups work out, the pecks and the arms?
Push ups?
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So push ups is a really great work out, ty..
So push ups is a really great work out, ty..
triceps...aloot...do them too insanity...like 1000 per day and you see develped chest...
malkore said:Yeah, my 2,500 rep a day tricep kickback routine has made my chest huuuuuge!
i thought 1000 a day was aloot...ugghhh now im going for more...Holy crap u do 2500, and u do 100? :S I cant even do a good 40
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It is important in the pursuit of a fit body, to also realize obsessions. When your daily workout consists of one excercise repeated many times, you are focusing too much on one section of the body. The chest is a great area to work, but so many people get carried away and they begin to neglect other regions. These regions often include the muscles of the legs. In my practice, I have seen it too often and would love to see more people working on their whole bodies as well as there pectoralii muscles. ( Although I must say that a well-worked chest does look great).
It is important in the pursuit of a fit body, to also realize obsessions. When your daily workout consists of one excercise repeated many times, you are focusing too much on one section of the body. The chest is a great area to work, but so many people get carried away and they begin to neglect other regions. These regions often include the muscles of the legs. In my practice, I have seen it too often and would love to see more people working on their whole bodies as well as there pectoralii muscles. ( Although I must say that a well-worked chest does look great).
The push up offers more than just improving chest/triceps and shoulder strength, it provides shoulder stability, and core stability. It really depends on the variant of push up, I've got a running list of 20+ push up variants that I have used successfully. The "lowly" push up is an excellent overall exercise!
-Andrew
-Andrew
What push-ups are those, Andrew?
Here are all the push up variants I have used...
Horizontal Push
· Push Up Variants
1. Regular Push Up
2. Close Grip Push Up
3. Reverse Band Push Up
4. DB Push Up
5. BB Push Up
6. Band Resisted Push Up
7. Stability Ball Push Up (Hands on Ball)
8. Wall Push Up
9. Plyometric Push Up
10. Chain Push Up
11. Balance Push Up
12. Alternating Box Push Up
13. Suspended Chain Push Up
14. Suspended Chain Push Up + Chain
15. Suspended Blast Strap Push Up
16. Suspended Band Push Up
17. Stability Ball Push Up (Feet on Ball)
18. Medicine Ball Push Up
19. Stability Ball/Medicine Ball Push Up
20. Ramp Push Up
21. Rolling Medicine Ball Push Up
22. Board Push Up
23. DB Board Push Up
24. BB Board Push Up
25. T- Push Up
26. 1-Arm Elevated Push Up
27. 1- Leg Elevated Push Up
This is from my ambitious effort at getting pictures of many of these exercises to be added to one of my upcoming manuals that I am working on.
-Andrew
Horizontal Push
· Push Up Variants
1. Regular Push Up
2. Close Grip Push Up
3. Reverse Band Push Up
4. DB Push Up
5. BB Push Up
6. Band Resisted Push Up
7. Stability Ball Push Up (Hands on Ball)
8. Wall Push Up
9. Plyometric Push Up
10. Chain Push Up
11. Balance Push Up
12. Alternating Box Push Up
13. Suspended Chain Push Up
14. Suspended Chain Push Up + Chain
15. Suspended Blast Strap Push Up
16. Suspended Band Push Up
17. Stability Ball Push Up (Feet on Ball)
18. Medicine Ball Push Up
19. Stability Ball/Medicine Ball Push Up
20. Ramp Push Up
21. Rolling Medicine Ball Push Up
22. Board Push Up
23. DB Board Push Up
24. BB Board Push Up
25. T- Push Up
26. 1-Arm Elevated Push Up
27. 1- Leg Elevated Push Up
This is from my ambitious effort at getting pictures of many of these exercises to be added to one of my upcoming manuals that I am working on.
-Andrew
Andrew Smith said:
MostWanted said:
Not really. Push Ups can be progressed and regressed according to the clients level and targeted capacity to train. (i.e. you can make the exercise harder or easier and work it between various repetition brackets, 1-5, 6-8, 8-12, 15+ working various scopes of the strength to endurance continuum.) Generally the standard push up is usually used as a strength-endurance excercise (15+), however, you wrap a band around your back (mini or medium) and suddenly low and behold you can only do 8-12, putting you in a strength-hypertrophy bracket! But wait! Your can't do a 2 good reps with your hands on the floor, well do them off a box! Suddenly you are strengthen you upper body and learning how to do the movement, by making the leverages better! If you wanted some strength, you could add a band and put a chain accross your back, and you could only do perhaps 5 or so, suddenly you are gaining maximal strength!
A good coach or trainer can progress and regress an exercise easy. Any mindless coach can tell a trainee to crank out reps till they are blue in the face, it takes a good one to make the exercise into a maximal strength exercise. Push Ups have a wide range of application. Again, a good coach knows when and how to apply these to each situation.
Hope that cleared up some confusion.
Happy Holidays,
Andrew