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[iNews24, Reporter Shin Soo-Jung] Push-ups, which are often considered a simple chest exercise, bring about remarkable effects on our body.
Push-ups are commonly known as a chest exercise. It is easy to think of it as a bodyweight exercise that men who want to build their chest muscles, or people who want to build their upper body strength, do.
However, push-ups effectively train the entire body evenly. They provide even more dramatic and powerful effects for beginners.
Push-ups, an exercise that can be done without using any equipment, involve bending and stretching your arms while focusing the weight of your entire body on the four points of your two hands and toes in a prone position.
It’s easy to think of push-ups as an exercise that only uses arms and chest. However, push-ups are a full-body exercise that also uses shoulders, buttocks, abdomen, back, and lower body, and promotes growth of basic physical strength, muscles, and core.
Since the basic ready posture requires you to keep your body upright, you need to tighten your buttocks and lower your pelvis, and the tension in your abdomen, waist, and lower body must be maintained.
Also, as a strength endurance exercise that repeats a certain number of times, it helps to develop superficial and deep muscles in balance, and it also helps to improve cardiorespiratory ability, so you can feel the effects of aerobic and anaerobic exercise at the same time.
It not only strengthens visible muscles, but also strengthens ligaments and tendons, and develops core muscles that stabilize the center of the body, the spine, and pelvis. If core muscles are developed, it also helps to create and maintain the correct posture.
They are free from the constraints of time and space. The most important point when exercising is to develop a habit of doing it consistently. As a bodyweight exercise, push-ups can be performed anywhere with a floor, such as at home, in the office, or on the street, without much inconvenience, which is a great advantage.
You can adjust the posture of push-ups to suit yourself, and it’s easy to set the number and duration, so you can set goals and achieve a high sense of accomplishment.
Broad shoulders and chest muscles naturally follow. If you consistently do push-ups, they help expand the overall chest, make the upper body appear larger, and widen the shoulders. Especially in the early stages of starting push-ups, the anterior deltoid grows and the hunched back and rolled shoulders straighten, so the effects can be even more dramatic.
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