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Be honest for once /fit/.
Can pushups actually grow your chest?
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>>77121472
67 every day?
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>>77121476
Will try anon, thanks
won't start 200 but will gradually go up
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>>77121467
Muscles get bigger through a mix of intensity and volume. Doing as many as you can is more important than just doing x amount every day. There are guys in the military with completely unimpressive pecs who can do 100 perfect form pushups in 2 minutes, because they just train to max the test, not build muscle.
Train like a bodybuilder. Do multiple exercises (regular, close grip, diamond, wide, staggered, decline, atlas-style, etc.) for multiple sets and do as many reps as you can. Try to force as much blood as possible into your chest and totally exhaust it. You want it to hurt. Start with what you can do and build up from there.
You can build an impressive physique with almost any exercises, the key is effort.
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>>77121932
Nobody can understand a word of your posts, you babble complete gibberish endlessly, never once have you contributed a single meaningful post here despite shitting up every single fucking thread with your meaningless nonsense and you will NEVER EVER post physique
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>>77121976
>and you will NEVER EVER post physique
I got you, here he is
>>77122015
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>>77121900
You can place the parallettes in any way that is most comfortable for you, you get the most rom out of it of any comparable exercise, you can safely go to and beyond failure, you can easily do overloaded negatives after your set if you're into that.
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>>77121436
Hey. If you're still around, can I partially hijack your thread to ask anons how do they do their pushups and/or what is the right way to do pushups? If it's related, I think you can somewhat grow your chest with pushups? Maybe? My only anecdote (which someone may recognize) is that I was 13, wanted to prove I wanted to join the wrestling team for real, so I did 500 pushups in three hours. My chest and strength grew quite a bit during that three month period of wrestling (no weight training). But I don't remember so well and don't want to be making any false promises so take all that with an asterisk.
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Muscles growth is stimulated by exercice. Muscles are made of different fibers. Basically two types, slow and fast ones. The ones responsible for size are fast fibers, that are recruited on short and intense efford.
If you train push-ups only, as a beginner you will trigger some adaptation and therefore your pecs and triceps will grow a bit, to adapt to the stimulus.
After some time, you will be able to do so many push-ups that your slow fibers will do most of the work, and then it will be more of an endurance exercice instead of a strength one.
When you reach this point, the size will not increase but rather your muscle's tolerance to very high repetitions.
On this point, you are better adding weight to increase resistance and recruit once again the fast type fibers.
Adding weight to push-ups can be done, but it comes to a point where it becomes cumbersome. By then you should, by all means, switch to the press, be it bench, incline, dips, smith machine.
Always keep in mind, lifting it self DOES NOT increase size, it just triggers it. And growth is triggered when you reach failure point.
Good luck, I hope this is of some use.