What does push-ups do to your body?

Answer 1

If executed correctly great for arm muscles, core and quads.

If you want to do this it is for life so you need to totally change your way of eating and exercising. This is not a diet rather than a healthy eating plan for life. So no more talking diet cause it means time limit. Stop making some major mistakes wake up earlier and get active earlier your metabolism is sluggish and needs to be woken up this is half your problem.

Here are the golden rules:
Initially cut down to 1200 calories.
Exercise 6 times per week for 1 hours a day. Do three weight sessions and three cardio sessions. No gym involved.
Don't eat carbs after 4pm, never eat carbs within 2 hours of exercise or within 1 hour of exercise.
Drink 3 litres of water per day. You can have a green tea at the end of the day.
Limit your fruit in take to 2 pieces per day.
Never eat dinner after 6pm.
Adopt of low GI eating plan this is sustainable for life!
Make low fat dairy choices

Follow this menu plan as a suggestion:
Breakfast 7am - 1 cup hot water w lemon
20 minutes later have a bowel of oats w water (no honey) OR
fruit salad w low GI soy yogurt
Snack 10am - pear or apple (both low GI)
Lunch 12.30pm - multigrain sandwich w 50g tuna & salad (no butter)
Snack 3pm - low GI yogurt OR skim berry smoothie (no honey or banana) plenty of ice, 1/2 cup skim milk & 1/4 cup yogurt
Dinner 5.30pm - 120g grilled lean meat/fish/prawns/tofu patties (not fried) w spinach salad & mixed vegies (no whites, carbs) OR 3 egg white/soy omlette with ham, cheese and tomato
Snack - 1 scoop of low cal low fat ice cream (if hungry)

Exercise is must be intense. Refer to www.bodybuilding.com for your weights routine. Never do weights two consecutive days have a cardio day in between.

Cardio needs to include running, go hard up stair wells and cycling. You get the most benefits from exercise when your body is totally fatigued and this is when you see changes.

To maintain you can increase calories to 1500 and reduce exercise sessions to 3-4 times per week. If weight creeps up again due to holiday period etc.. go back to 1200 cal and 6 sessions again.

Good luck it worked for me it can work for anyone.

Answer 2

Push ups, mainly targeted to the pectoral muscles(Chest). Shoulders (Anterior deltoid, medial deltoids), Triceps and flexors are the synergisers in this work out. However, you can see the chest development by doing merely push ups will soon touch the plateu as the resistance is your body weight, which remains more or less constant.

If you want further development of the chest you have to rely on progressive loading principle. That is the weight training.

Have a nice day.

Answer 3

The more push ups you do the more your chest or (pecs) will develop, hence giving you more upper body strengh

Answer 4

It builds up your chest muscles as well as your tri-seps. you some times get an ab work out because your straining at times. keep doin them trust me once your able to do one armed push ups, you'll be rockn then, just keep at it.

Answer 5

what does? i think you mean "what do"

well they strengthen your triceps, chest, and core

you can do different versions to focus on different parts

triceps - triangle push ups
core - plank

Answer 6

Do alot of them for six months and you'll look like fabio.

Answer 7

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Answer 8

ALOT.... I THINK