Push-ups, a common fitness exercise, mainly exercise the muscles of upper limbs, waist and abdomen, especially the chest muscles. Push-ups mainly exercise pectoralis major and triceps brachii, as well as deltoid toe, serratus anterior, coracoid process and other body parts. Push-ups are daily exercise and a basic training in physical education class, especially military physical training.

Especially short-distance push-ups, which exercise forearm muscles very much. On the basis of "ordinary push-ups", the distance between hands is shoulder width or shoulder width, and other postures are the same as "ordinary push-ups". Narrow push-ups mainly exercise the middle seam of pectoralis major and triceps brachii.

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Precautions for doing push-ups:

1. Hold the ground with your palm or fist. The body is straight and cannot be bent. Especially the hips can't be upturned. When doing push-ups, most of the strength will be shared by both arms, and the effect of exercising chest muscles will not be achieved.

2, when doing push-ups, the amount of exercise should not be too large, step by step, warm up before doing, stretch after doing, so that muscles can be relaxed.

3. Pay attention during training, keep your body from shaking, breathe smoothly, and keep pace with the breathing rhythm.

4. According to your physical condition, choose the appropriate exercise mode and control the exercise load.

5. Push-ups are gravity training. Doing push-ups for a long time can easily cause great pressure and impact on knuckles, wrists and shoulders, causing pain and injury to the above parts, so these joints need more maintenance at ordinary times.

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