The humble pushup is the Queen of exercises; yes the push up is Queen because there are another few exercises that can produce more bang for your exercise buck.
But we are not here to talk about those three exercises today, let us explain why the humble pushup rules your exercise world hands down...
You need no equipment, you can start simply by leaning against a wall upright and push back upright etc till you build up more strength, since your only using you own body weight there is no equipment nor risk of serious injury. Simply your muscles will cry to stop before you can reach a point of failure that risks injury.
As you get stronger move to the floor and do some knee pushups on your hands and knees. Push ups work because they cause you to control your breathing with focus, they lock your core abdomen and lateral back muscles tight so your entire body gets a controlled workout...
You can do pushups anywhere and anytime and you can never outgrow pushups, to easy? try a wide or narrow hand position, maybe just one leg or one arm pushups? Whatever your fitness goals push ups will get 99% of people there; but most people do not like pushups, because they are extremely hard work. That is why most people race off to the gym to the easy machines that only work one or two muscle groups at once.
Want to lose weight? Well pushups will do it; guaranteed, getting solid with push ups will build up huge amounts of strength compared to average people, this upper body muscle which most people no longer have burns ten times more calories per day than adipose fat tissue. This means every day you work out you burn calories and ramp up your metabolism plus these rejuvenated upper body arm shoulder muscles serve to clean the blood and eat away at any extra calories hiding around your waist or hips...
Do yourself a favor; get good and solid at pushups, learn how to do them well and build up huge amounts of functional strength and a trim toned body; best of all risks of bad things like heart disease, diabetes, cholesterol and high blood pressure are all greatly reduced.
Now you have read this; go grab your potato chips and hit that television remote...
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