Questions about push-ups

[incognito42]

Originally posted by Heizen

Every lifter I have talked to, every site I have been on, this is the ONLY place I have seen that says you can increase your bench with PUSHUPS. Where is a picture of yourself to prove the muscle building qualities of bodyweight pushups? Or are you just a skinny ectomorph keyboard jockey?

Now I need to post pictures of myself to...prove myself!? O lord. I dont care what sites YOUVE been to or who YOUVE talked to, I know that the LB coaches I played for in HS knew wtf they were talking about. One played for the Citadel and had try-outs with the Falcons and Bills, the next one I had played for Bethune Cookman and the next one I had my senior year played for the Packers backing up Nail Diggs and being GB's ST ace as recently as 2002. KD Williams was his name and if youd really like to, you can look him up on Madden. My head coach won a National Championship starting at Center for Notre Dame in '90 and played for the Colts and Chargers. I dont know why any of this matters, this isnt a pszing contest, I dont care what a bunch of strangers behind keyboards think of me but I go and try to share some of the knowledge Ive gathered and then I have some yahoo who did a couple google searches come back and question me, as if you know me. I have nothing to benefit from coming on here and making stuff up or trying to flaunt like Im the B.M.O.C.

Push-ups will make you stronger and will increase your stregth, thus increasing your bench press. Your lifting you own body weight, its one of the best workouts you can do. I know this to be true, because Ive witnessed the results first hand on myself

 

[Ouzo]

Its quite true.

If you do pushups its obviously going to target chest/tri's depending on how you do it. Do enough of them, and in different positions (thus different resistance) and you will get stronger and then push a heavier bench.