Question on push ups

[orlandocheese1]

[FONT=&quot]By being able to do more pushups, does that equate into more strength? [/FONT]
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[FONT=&quot]In other words, does doing lots of pushups increase strength at all? or just muscle endurance?[/FONT]
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[P0N]

It does increase strength, but at some point more reps doesn't translate to a higher max weight. For that you need to train with heavy weights.

 

[SteveMobsterG]

By being able to do more pushups, does that equate into more strength?


In other words, does doing lots of pushups increase strength at all? or just muscle endurance?

Endurance.

 

[stevesmi]

you won't be able to bench 300 pounds by just increasing your pushup count no

but it does increase strength to a degree.

guys like hershel walker never weight trained in their lives, they just have amazing genetics and did a lot of pushups and pullups. i know a lot of guys like this. edgerrin james never weight trained, he worked on his grandpa's watermelon farm growing up and built strong arms carrying watermelons lol

 

[cbbram]

strength and endurance

 

[RoySimpson]

Basically strength & endurance. You cant put a ton of muscle mass with push ups only but its a good start to lifting heavier weights!

 

[RickRock13]

Once you get into higher rep ranges you are just building endurance at that point

 

[jacoobsteeve1997]

Increasing the number of pushups definitely increase strength. While adding more exercises relating push ups is best idea to train muscles hard and increasing their strength.