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Benefits of pushups

It’s the exercises you hate the most that your body needs the most. 

 

Push-Ups Build Strength – Everywhere

Push-ups are one of the oldest and most basic of exercises for a simple reason. They work. The exercise positions all the muscles in our upper body and builds optimal strength in the forearms, shoulders, chest. And for the ladies, they will “get rid of the jig” by targeting the upper arms. And when done properly, also put emphasis on building a strong core by stabilizing the abdominals and back. There is even some benefits to your quads and hammies. 

 

Push-Ups Boosts Metabolism 

Because you’re making everything work, you are pushing your body towards total physical exertion. And while that hurts a little, might make you want to throw up a little, it also forces your heart to work harder. Your muscles demand more oxygen to make energy and the only way to get it is from the heart pumping blood around faster. That will boost your metabolic rate so you burn more calories. Your metabolism is essentially your paycheck in terms of calories. The higher your metabolism, the more calories you get to eat.

 

Push-Ups Give you an Ego Boost 

Sorry folks — no excuses here. No expensive equipment needed. No gym membership required. No trainer instruction is necessary. You don’t need any rhythm or special skill. You can’t blame the rain or the heat. Short of a wrist or shoulder injury, you’re pretty much out of luck when it comes to looking for a way out of it.

 

Core Strength

When you perform pushups, your spine should remain neutrally curved and rigid so that any load is distributed safely through it. If your back should sag, your lumbar spine will become hyperextended, which can lead to injury. Keeping your spine properly aligned is the job of your core -- the muscles around your midsection. Although primarily considered an upper body exercise, pushups also strengthen your core muscles -- specifically your rectus abdominus and transversus abdominis.

 

Increased Bone Mass

Bone mass naturally declines with age after peaking during your mid to late 30s. If left unchecked, this bone loss can lead to osteoporosis, a medical condition characterized by weak bones that are prone to fracture. Performing weight-bearing exercises like pushups will strengthen your wrists, forearms, elbows, upper arms and shoulders. They will also help reduce bone loss and promote stronger, more dense bones.


Increased Metabolic Rate 

Pushups use a large number of muscles at the same time; even your legs get in on the action. All of this muscular activity means that your heart must work hard to pump blood to your working muscles, which also causes your breathing rate to increase. Furthermore, a set of pushups will elevate your metabolic rate while you are doing them and as you recover afterward, all of which can help contribute to weight loss.


Push-ups boost your cardiovascular health

Push-ups help to circulate blood through the entire body, and are great for your heart and cardiovascular health. A healthy heart means a longer life, and often a healthier, more able one as well. 

Push-ups increase your body’s production of human growth hormone, or HGH

HGH helps your muscles to grow. Our bodies manufacture it in larger quantities when we are young. This is one of the reasons that it gets harder to put on muscle as you get older. If you are having a tough time bulking out, doing more push-ups may help you. To get this benefit, you need to do a number of repetitions, and make push-ups one of your main exercises.

Push-ups protect your body from injury

One of the most common injuries as people get older are rotator cuff injuries. These can be crippling, and challenging to recover from. Many people never even make full recoveries, and lose some of their range of motion and strength. These injuries can cause a lot of pain and limit mobility. Doing push-ups properly strengthens and stabilizes the muscles which support your shoulders. The stronger and more stable this system is, the less likely you are to injure it.
You may assume that any and all exercise is good for you, but this is not the case. Ironically, doing a lot of bench pressing without doing push-ups can actually make it more likely you will get injured. Why? You strengthen your chest and shoulder muscles when you use a bench press, but not the support system for your shoulders. When you use those muscles to lift something or do some other task, there is no counterbalance in place to keep everything where it belongs. The result is often a torn rotator cuff. This is why balance is so important in your workouts.

Improve posture

One more way in which doing push-ups can protect you from injury is by correcting your posture. This is only true if you do them correctly, however; if you arch your back too much, you are doing them wrong and will teach your body bad habits. If however you do them with your back straight, you will teach your body good habits. This will reduce back pain and also protect you from straining your back.

So Boost Up and start push-ups from today onwards :)


 

 

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