Is bench-pressing your body weight equivalent to doing a push-up?

Question

I need to know if bench-pressing your body weight is the same or atleast similar to doing a push-up.

Answer 1

No. Bench-pressing your body weight is much more difficult than doing push-ups. When doing push-ups you are not lifting all of your body weight because your hands and feet are resting on the floor.

Answer 2

Yeah, what everyone else said. However, I do think the two exercises work very similar muscle groups. It's just the bench focuses the weight there whereas a pushup distributes your weight in such a manner that you are not pushing your full bodyweight.

Either is much better than nothing though.

Answer 3

Nooooo, because your center of gravity is not the same. It would be the same if you could do it while hovering and just using your arms, but with a push up...you have your feet on the floor and your back flat. Bench pressing...you push just from your chest.

Answer 4

Similar but not the same. Your feet on the ground takes some of the weight off.

Answer 5

No, benching is more because a push-up the weight is divided because half of it's on your legs, bench is all arms / chest

Answer 6

its harder than a push up, in a push up youre only lifting the weight of your upper body minus the weight of your arms, it would be closer to doing a push up leaned against a wall and standing on youre head

Answer 7

depends on how many pushups you can do in one set... If you can only do a single one and lets say your bodyweight is 160 lbs, you couldn't even do a single repetition with 100 lbs on the bench...

Answer 8

no becuz whn u do a push up ur not liftin all ur weight becuz ur feet r on the goround so it makes it alot easier to do a push ups.

Answer 9

a push up is less, because you have one other weight distribution point - your feet.

Answer 10

No, But they both work-out the same muscle.