Build Your Chest and Arms

Build Your Chest and Arms

Chances are, when you began doing push-ups, you learned one hand position in relation to your body and have used it all along. This means you’ve been working your pectorals in exactly the same way. To make your push-ups build different parts of these muscles, you need to vary the position of your hands. When you move your hands closer together, you work the triceps and the inner or medial part of the pectorals.When you move your hands farther apart, you work the lateral part of the outer pectorals. As a push-up veteran, you will feel the difference as you experiment with different positions. Well-defined biceps are a sign of strength. If you have been doing biceps curls and push-ups, you have already been strengthening the upper arms.
Push-ups with your legs straight add to the difficulty of the exercise.
In the beginning, you can keep your knees on the ground as you perform the push-up.When you’ve aced this form of push-up, you can add to the challenge rather than increase repetitions. An effective way is to keep your legs straight with your feet on the ground. Next you can elevate your feet by putting them up on a step or bench, which is the most challenging form of a push-up and will build and strengthen your pectorals,arms, and even your abdomen—because you need to tighten it in order to maintain a horizontal body position.Push-ups using handle grips ease the stress on your wrists.Using push-up handle grips to do push-ups is easier on your wrists and allows for agreater stretch of the pectorals as you move toward the floor.A step used to lift your feet off the ground adds additional challenge to your push-up routine.