Can push-ups exercise your chest muscles?

I believe that many male friends go to the gym regularly, right? In order to develop strong muscles and attract the attention of people from all walks of life, many people will definitely spend a lot of time on this. However, I don’t know how much you male friends know about the various fitness equipment in the gym and how much you know about how to use the fitness equipment. Let’s talk about push-ups in the next few days.

Push-ups mainly exercise the pectoralis major and triceps brachii. Here are the methods and quantities of push-ups to exercise the muscles:

Number of push-up exercises: 10 to 15 per set, 3 to 8 sets, rest for 1 minute between each set.

Five push-ups of varying difficulty: incline push-ups, standard push-ups, weighted push-ups, lever push-ups, and one-handed push-ups.

Even easier than the standard push-up is the incline push-up. You can put your hands on the wall, the edge of the bed or other high place to do it, which is easier than doing it horizontally. If you can do about 15 incline push-ups, then do standard push-ups, and similarly for other types of push-ups. Harder pushups: Focus pushups, lever pushups, etc. Focused push-ups are when you place one hand on a high object, such as a basketball, and do push-ups normally with the other hand. Lever push-ups are done by placing one hand on the ground for assistance while the other hand performs push-ups normally. The final move is the one-handed push-up.

If the goal is to gain muscle, the above exercise plan does not require daily exercise, and it is sufficient to exercise once every 48 hours or more. Gaining muscle requires long-term persistence. You can't get a good figure in one day.

First, about the hand problem, many people like to spread their fingers with their fingertips pointing to the sides of the body when doing push-ups, this is unscientific, because in this way your fingers and even forearms will play a role when doing push-ups. Why do some people say that they do so many push-ups a day but still have no effect? ​​In fact, not only push-ups, but all exercises if the purpose is to gain muscle, then you should try to exercise only that part of the muscle, and try not to use other parts if possible. Personally, I think the chest muscles are actually the most difficult to train, because there is no exercise that can only use the chest muscles. The correct hand posture is to put the four fingers together except the thumb, slightly open the thumb, and then point the fingertips forward. The second question is the distance between the hands. Most of us put our hands as wide as shoulders when doing push-ups. In fact, this can only exercise the deltoid muscles and upper arm muscles, and use a small amount of abdominal muscles. The pectoral muscles are basically not used. The correct distance between the hands is that when you do push-ups, when your upper arms and back are in the same plane, the angle between your deltoids and upper arms is ninety degrees.

The above is the push-ups that the editor introduced to all male friends, as well as the push-ups training methods and the muscles trained by push-ups. I hope this can help all the male friends who want to build their muscles. However, exercise is exercise, and male friends must pay attention to the time and safety of exercise.