Q&A for How to Build Muscle Doing Push Ups

Yes. When you do push ups? You're challenging your body to lift its own body weight. If your goal is to build muscle, the best way to do it is to pair calisthenic exercises, like push ups, pull ups, and crunches, with weight training.

Doing push ups every day will build muscle to start, but then you will stop seeing gains once your body adapts.

No, doing push ups will not affect your height. The main change that doing push ups may cause is the building of muscle and strengthening of the body.

Yes, the biceps are worked during push ups. Try the various hand positions, inclined push ups with the feet raised, and decline push ups with the hands on an elevated surface such as a chair or counter, to get at the biceps from different angles.

You can get bigger if you haven't been doing push ups, but at some point, your body adapts and you will need to do different things to continue to gain size.

Yes, lifting your own body weight is a great way to build muscle size and strength.

To gain muscle, you need to progressively do more and more push ups, so start with 10, then work up to 15. Then try 2 sets of 10-15. Do the push ups one day and rest a day or two before doing them again, for best results.

If you've done any chest exercise in the past but quit and you want to get back into it, you can see muscle definition within as little as two to three weeks after restarting. If you're new and have never done any muscle building exercises, then you still should see a change in muscle definition after a month and you will definitely see noticeable definition and gain (in size) after about two months. However, you need to know that it all depends on how hard you push your muscles. Doing 10 push-ups a day won't do much to your muscles. Muscles respond to demand - the more you demand from them (by working them) the more they will grow. Basically, it's adaptation.

Don't follow a strict diet, but eat lean meats, fruits and vegetables. Make sure to stay properly hydrated.

Usually the amount of the teenage pushups should be at least between 10 and 15, or until the muscles start to burn.

This depends on the person. You could have more hormones or you could have less hormones. And it also depends on how many push ups you do per day.

It can, if you find it is easy to manage that much. Otherwise, 50 to 70 push ups is enough to build a chest.

Any exercise that puts strain on the muscle will produce muscle gains/ strength. But you need to know that not all exercises are the same and it all depends on the intensity, gender and genes but every body will gain muscles/strength by exercising.

Yes! Push ups help with upper body strength in general: shoulders, chest, triceps and even biceps. Consistently doing push ups will definitely strengthen your back muscles.

Avoid excess carbs and stay away from junk food. Eat healthy, lean sources of protein, like turkey, to gain muscle.

Not really. The point of push-ups is to use your arms and core muscles. Your legs are still involved, but you won't gain stronger leg muscles just by doing push-ups.

Doing push ups everyday might be an overload for your body, and you might strain something as well. Doing push-ups every other day allows for your body to adapt to the routine and build muscle.

To build muscle, you should do at least 3 sets per day of 30 push-ups each. When you are working out at this intensity, you need large quantities of protein (80+ grams per day). You also need to drink 2 liters of water and consume about 500 Kcal over your metabolic rate (including 50 grams of carbs) per day to gain muscle and get more defined.

No. Doing 20 jumping jacks will not magically give you abs.

It depends on the person, but typically 3-4 sets of 10 reps is good for beginners.

Do as many as you comfortably can and then gradually increase the number as you progress.

If you do your push ups consistently and make them more challenging as you work out, then you will develop muscle.

Yes, it will strengthen/engage your core, thus building abs.

Yes. The time of day or night is irrelevant.

Yes, they do.

They probably shake from the exertion of doing the pushup.

The amount of push ups you need to do to be toned will depend on your genetics, age, diet and body type.

Bring your elbows closer to your body as doing this will load more weight onto the triceps and away from the shoulder without killing the exercise. You should probably invest some time making sure you work out all three parts of the shoulder to avoid injury in the future.

Once you can do 10 - 15 push ups in a single set without breaking a proper sweat, then look around in books or online for more challenging push up variations, like Hindu push ups, clapping push ups or even one-armed push ups. If you can do 100 push ups in one set, you're doing too many.

It really depends on your body type and how often you do your push ups. But you should do at least 100 push up per week to gain results in a month.