In life, many people like to use push-ups to exercise. On the one hand, they want to stay healthy, on the other hand, they want to make their muscles and strength bigger. However, quite a few unarmed bodybuilders don't like protein powder and think that drinking protein powder is not a pure bodybuilder. If you insist on doing push-ups for a long time, but don't eat protein powder, to what extent can your muscles and strength reach?
First of all, let's not talk about protein powder, and analyze the degree of muscle and strength that can be achieved after push-ups according to normal eating habits. Push-ups belong to unarmed fitness, mainly concentrated in the upper body. You can concentrate on training triceps brachii and pectoral muscles, as well as waist, abdominal core and legs. If you do push-ups for a long time according to the focus of the training site, you can make your arms thicker, your chest muscles more developed, and you can increase your calorie consumption. At this time, many people will have a question mark in their hearts. Can normal eating have such a result?
In fact, when a person is training, his food intake will increase unconsciously, thus achieving a dynamic balance of calories. In other words, I thought I ate the same thing, but in fact I ate more than before. In the long run, muscles can still grow, but it is slower than deliberately eating protein powder.
On the other hand, muscles can grow well, but you can't have a unicorn arm of 40 cm. If a person only does standard push-ups, the body fat rate is kept within 15%, and the arm usually only increases a few centimeters in the end.
The size of the arm is a key indicator to measure a person's strength. Some friends can do 100 or even 200 push-ups at a time. They think they have great strength and look down on muscular men in the gym. In fact, this overconfidence is ridiculous.
For example, a person can complete 100 push-ups at a time, and can also easily complete air push-ups. Does this mean that this person's bench press strength is very strong? In fact, only doing push-ups, their bench press weight can only be 1.3 times of their own weight, and few people can reach 1.5 times.
Generally speaking, even without protein powder, long-term push-ups can actually increase muscle and strength, and the increase of both is good. In addition, protein powder itself does not have the function of increasing muscle mass, but it can increase the probability of ordinary people taking enough protein, which is helpful for muscle growth.