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Can pushups actually grow your chest?
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Yes but u wont put in the work
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>>77121436
If you're new yes. Even if you already got a big chest, push ups are still great for pump.
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>>77121451
How many do i need
for real
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>>77121467
About three fiddy
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>>77121467
6 7
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>>77121472
67 every day?
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>>77121467
Like 200/day 3x a week for 3 months of strict form no cheating push ups.
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>>77121476
Will try anon, thanks
won't start 200 but will gradually go up
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Been on stuck on 20 for a while now. Is it a stamina thing beyond that,cos I rather not go outside.
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>>77121489
Have you thought about resting between sets
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>>77121436
They're used routinely by militaries around the world. If they weren't effective they wouldn't be considered as one of the basics.
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>>77121493
Military has no need for you to have big chest, it’s purely a humiliation ritual there
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Not OP, but how do I know if I am doing them right?
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Doing them elevated on parallettes and weighted is genuinely the best horizontal push movement.
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>>77121531
Doms in targeted area
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>>77121436
depends on genetics, i can do 4x12 weighted push ups (35kg) and im 90kg myself but my chest is still very bad
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>>77121581
it's not you lying fuck your chest looks great. sick of your shit
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>>77121552
This. A few inches off the ground makes a world of difference.
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>>77121492
There's no rest for me in this world.
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>>77121436
No they cannot.
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>>77121467
anything between 100-600 in sets consisting of 10-20 reps
200something gives best results
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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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Absolutely
Buy some resistance bands once your reps get too high
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Rolling
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>>77121489
Why? Are you physically unable to do 21st pushup?
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>>77121489
You are literally making the choice to not do a single more pushup after 20. Entirely a (You) problem.
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>>77121599
>>77121552
why
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>>77121761
Thanks
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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
>t.
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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
is this engagement bait or are you just a fucking retard?
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>>77121813
13 was bullshit I did 20 and I'll do another 60 before bed.
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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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>>77122222
holy digits checked
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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.
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>>77121436
Yeah, when I was a teenager I could crank out 100 at a time and my chest was decent

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