musculus pectoralis major
Compared with arms, many young people like to do push-ups, because push-ups can exercise chest muscles. Pectoral muscles are different from muscles in other parts of the body, which can greatly enhance the charm of a boy. For example, in summer, developed chest muscles can give people a sense of masculinity and strength. On the contrary, the segmented abdominal muscles or thick arms are not well displayed under the cover of clothes. Generally speaking, push-ups mainly exercise arms (mainly triceps brachii) and chest muscles. Can you get a figure with strong arms and developed chest muscles by doing push-ups for a long time? I believe there will be a clear answer after reading the following three points.
A well-proportioned figure
First, although the local muscles will be more developed, it does not mean that doing push-ups is to exercise the chest muscles and triceps brachii. When doing push-ups, many parts of the body can be exercised. For example, the forearm plays a supporting role, and the shoulders and waist and abdomen play a stabilizing role. It's just that triceps brachii and pectoral muscles are the main muscle groups, which will get more stimulation than other muscle groups, and the result is more developed. Note that muscles in other parts will also grow. To sum up, triceps brachii and pectoral muscles will not be particularly prominent. This is a little different from simple muscle training.
Second, push-ups can really build muscles and build big muscles, but muscles can't be infinitely long. Because stimulating muscle growth mainly depends on high-load training, push-ups mainly rely on their own weight, which means that the muscles trained by push-ups will soon face the bottleneck of growth, and this bottleneck will come faster and earlier than using equipment training.
Thirdly, unarmed training has a very obvious feature, that is, it is difficult to gain weight without external load at all. If you can't get on the weight, you won't grow a big muscle circumference naturally. So push-ups can be used to describe the figure, thin and fleshy. What is it like? Look at these three people below.
Jiao Zhen
Jiao Zhen, who once won the title of "the person who does push-ups with both hands the most in one minute in a row", is said to have been practicing push-ups for 8 years since 15 years old. Jiao Zhen can be seen in the picture. There are really no exaggerated chest muscles and arms, but they are well-proportioned and strong.
Carlton
Carlton Williams has been doing push-ups for a long time, and the number of push-ups will be particularly high, and more than 2,000 push-ups can be completed in one hour. Look at his figure, it's nothing.
Luo Tao
Luo Tao, known as "the best chest muscle brother in Chongqing", can be said to be the closest person who only does push-ups. Over the years, Luo Tao, who used to be very thin, relied on push-ups to keep healthy, and at the same time, she got into shape. Height 175 cm, waist circumference 72 cm, chest circumference 102 cm, weight 50 kg, this data is really nobody.
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Finally, we should have a general understanding of what kind of figure we can build by doing push-ups in fitness. If you are not satisfied with this result, you can join other training movements as soon as possible, and I wish you all an early exercise of your ideal figure.