Push Up Workouts, The Easy And Quick Way To Create a Muscular Upper Body

A push up (American English usage) or press up (British English usage), is a common strength training exercise performed in a prone position, lying horizontal and

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face down, raising and lowering the body using the arms. They are an excellent exercise because you can do them from the comfort of your own home.   A basic push up does not require any equipment other than your own body weight and your arms. Push up workouts are simple to perform and one of the easiest and most effective routines that you can do.

Unfortunately, most people don't know how to correctly perform a push up, and, as a result, don't get the full benefits of this simple exercise and may accidentally end up injuring themselves in the process. It is in fact a kind of upside-down bench press. They demand more stability and body control than a bench press, even though the movement looks sort of the same. The push up should be deep, the chest should near the floor, and the inner elbow should form a 90 degree angle or smaller. To make it easier have an exercise partner place a closed fist underneath your chest.

Push ups train pretty much every "pushing" muscle in the upper body: shoulders, triceps, and pecs, along with lots of stabilizer involvement from the rest of the body. Typically, you give the body 48 hours of rest before doing similar resistance exercises or weight training, so the body has time to recover and grow stronger.  That is why many workout routines offer upper body exercises on Monday-Wednesday-Friday and lower body exercises on Tuesday-Thursday.  Some workouts even give up to 72 hours of rest before repeating the same exercises.

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Tip: Each week, add 5 seconds to the time of doing push ups, and subtract five seconds from the rest time.  At the end of thirteen weeks, you will be able to push up for a steady 3 minutes. When you get the hang of it add some extra weight to your body, for example a sandbag on your back. Extra weight = more muscle = more push ups.

And for the beginner that can't do push ups at all: start doing table push ups, stand a few feet away from the edge of a table and place your hands on the edge, start pumping, the higher the table, the lesser resistance. 

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