Whenever I do pushups, I feel almost all of it in the arms and shoulders, not the chest. I'm very thin (6 foot, 140) and want to get a little definition in my pecs... I'm placing my hands a little wider than shoulderwith apart, at about shoulder level - am I doing them wrong? How many should I be doing a day? What routine would be best to build some muslce?
2006-08-31 07:59:57 · 14 answers · asked by reality6 1 in Health ➔ Diet & Fitness
if you do 25 pushups 6 times, the next day u shud start feeling the pain in your chest. For your chest, ur hands shud be placed in line wit ur shoulders, but it doesnt make that much a difference. Anyways, pushups will not build big pecs, it will tone and harden them though. To gain size you need to bench press or do flyes. ( look on net for what these are) You should also drink 1 litre of milk a day and consume as much grams of protien as u weigh in pounds. Working out with no protien is useless. Buy whey protien and mix 20 grams of protien with milk and drink right after any workout. eggs, fish and meat are your friends
2006-08-31 08:01:21 · answer #1 · answered by J' K '06 1 · 1⤊ 0⤋
There are 2 types of muscle fibers. Doing pushups is more of an aerobic exercise, and could help you lose weight! Which you don't want to do!
The second fibers are stimulated by weightlifting. You should probably bench press, flyes, dips and THEN do pushups. Google these exercises.
Pushups give your chest a full look for about 10 minutes. Then the blood rushes out and it starts looking normal again. You are doing your pushups fine. I do 200 a week, but I'm not big or anything.
2006-08-31 08:05:33 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Elevate your feet on something like a chair. Use dumbbells as grips on the floor or a push up bar. Squeeze your pecs while doing every rep. Do what is comfortable at first. But I would do at least 200 a day to start.
2006-08-31 08:04:13 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
if you want pecs... then i suggest you try swimming and doing pushups. you can build some good looking pecs. swim a lap then get out of the pool and do one pushup and then increase by the amount of laps you swim. you should probably try to move your arms a little widered than soulderwith apart.
2006-08-31 08:03:48 · answer #4 · answered by sellatieeat 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
you should bring your arms in closer when trying to build up your chest further apart works on the back of your arms.. I startes with 5 sets of 20 for one week and then 5 sets of 25 the next week on so on and so on but take atleast 1 day off every week to relax your muscles you dont want to over work them and strain yourself....
2006-08-31 08:07:28 · answer #5 · answered by lilellenwood 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Dont do pushups...get a set of weights, and lift them 100 times every other day.
2006-08-31 08:03:40 · answer #6 · answered by sunflare63 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
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2017-02-27 19:34:49 · answer #7 · answered by Rehaddeed 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
You are doing fine....the pecs are very slow to develop.
Check here for other exercises and things that can help!
2006-08-31 08:01:59 · answer #8 · answered by Bear Naked 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
push up bars. 8 bucks at wal mart.
I used to stack encyclopedias up and do them from them. this allows you to go much further down and work the chest better.
2006-08-31 08:04:07 · answer #9 · answered by Bistro 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
go to your local health store they can give you some vitamins to help build body mass.
2006-08-31 08:02:45 · answer #10 · answered by redbone_lds 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋