YAWT - Push-up questions.

[SarcasticDwarf]

Originally posted by: BoomerD

Originally posted by: 911paramedic

I just remember in bootcamp we did them ALL the time to failure were a favorite of the CC's.

DROP AND GIVE ME 50 MAGGOT!

ONE, DRILL SARGENT! 2 DRILL SARGENT! 3 DRILL SARGENT!...

They gave you a number? We were just told to drop.

 

[Kelvrick]

I came into this thread expecting talk about bras, and yawt to be yet another women thread.

I got totally differeint information and think I actually enjoyed this one more though.

I hear talk of hand width, but what about moving them up towards your head or down towards your stomach. I find that having my hands shoulder-width right at my waist really seems to make it burn.

 

[Gamingphreek]

It all has to do with form.

The name escapes me (It may be Laterals) but your back is worked out, your deltoids are worked out, forearms are worked out. As said earlier, it is a very general exercise which is why it isn't good for building mass. I think you are looking for something where there is nothing. There is no way you gained any more definition (Which is just less fat and more muscle mass) by doing push ups for 2 weeks.

Granny Push-Ups should not make you any more fatigued unless you have horrible for on your other push-ups. If you are trying for more pectoral definition there are a million exercises better focused at Arms and Pecs.

Keep at it! Bench Press, and oblique exercises are what you should really be looking for.

-Kevin

Edit: As for hand position.

Higher Up- More abdominals
Lower Down- More triceps and Deltoids
Farther apart- Inner Pectorals
Closer together- Triceps and Deltoids

Shoulder width part way up is merely a happy medium.

 

[Whisper]

Originally posted by: psteng19

Originally posted by: homercles337
Pushup are a generalized exercise, they hit a large number of muscle groups. Shoulds, back, triceps, pecs (hand placement is important here), and others. Try upgrading to declined pushups, put your feet up on a block about a foot off the ground.

Wouldn't that be inclined? Look at the angle your arm forms in relation to your body.

Yeah, I'm pretty sure that putting your feet up would more-closely approximate incline press, or even flat press, than it would decline press. Given the positioning of normal push-ups, they actually look like a cross between flat and decline presses.

 

[Gamingphreek]

Originally posted by: Whisper

Originally posted by: psteng19

Originally posted by: homercles337
Pushup are a generalized exercise, they hit a large number of muscle groups. Shoulds, back, triceps, pecs (hand placement is important here), and others. Try upgrading to declined pushups, put your feet up on a block about a foot off the ground.

Wouldn't that be inclined? Look at the angle your arm forms in relation to your body.

Yeah, I'm pretty sure that putting your feet up would more-closely approximate incline press, or even flat press, than it would decline press. Given the positioning of normal push-ups, they actually look like a cross between flat and decline presses.

The problem with doing incline push-ups is you will typically have bad form. Your body wont remain rigid you will tend to bend at the waste or something.

If you need to do incline/decline exercises, you really should do bench press.

-Kevin

 

[slimrhcp]

Push ups work the muscles used when you're doing a pushing motion...pecs, triceps, and deltoids (mostly anterior). I guess in theory it would also be an isometric exercise for your forearms.

Get started doing regular push-ups, if you don't like that way position two chairs parallel to each other and do your push-ups in between them. You've got to remember, in terms of strength gains, you're not going to get much out of doing more than 10-12 reps. That being said I love body weight execises like pull-ups, dips, leg raises on parallel bars.