Push ups good enough for chest development?

[Frackal]

Push ups good enough for chest development?



not if you want a developed chest they arent'

 

[40butpumpin]

callling bullshit here, push-ups, especially 1 arms done correctly are way better than bench in everyway, that is get in normal pushup position and just put 1 arm behind your back no moving your feet or anything

Can you video tape yourself doing these and allow me to see you? lol Sounds like it would be pretty rough on the shoulder, but not the chest.

 

[SofaGeorge]

I said this when CounterStrike posted this same exact question on teh training board. (I think he is going to keep asking till he gets the answer he wants to hear.)

I used to do 300 finger tip pushups every day. I got gains from this... but I didn't remotely get the chest development I did from free weights

 

[Euriskan]

Back in the day when I first started I didn't have much, an ez-curl bar and some plastic weights so I would do pushups. I would vary them, close grips, wide grips, deep wide grips using the ez-curl as a stand, incline(legs on high workhorse bench) and military pushups(handstand or legs propped high on the wall). I was young and grew like a weed but I would imagine it could still work now... especially now I know more about diet, rest, supplementation and etc.

-E

 

[TrainerOfChampions]

If you do push ups only, make sure you pre-exhaust the chest muscles, and superset them with dips, or add dumbell flys for a tri-set. Ive been saying this since 1963, and its just as true now as it was then.

 

[BrickGirl]

I have done 1000's of one arm pushups, and 1000's of one arm one leg pushups. it doesn't work out my chest at all, it's mostly all tricep and shoulder and technique

 

[Counterstrike]

I said this when CounterStrike posted this same exact question on teh training board. (I think he is going to keep asking till he gets the answer he wants to hear.)

I used to do 300 finger tip pushups every day. I got gains from this... but I didn't remotely get the chest development I did from free weights

negative, boy! I poste it on training b/c not everyone with good info hangs at anabolics only some don't come to this section if its something general i would post it on different sections of the board that has to do with it b/c different people hang in different sections