If you don't think pushups are worth doing
- Try this simple test, get into a pushup position and hold the pushup position for 5 minutes, after one minute most people will know-that they are in for four more minutes of pain.
Just imagine if you put your feet up on a chair, Or try it one handed!!!
As a result... your body will start to shake, you will start to sweat, your body will want to collapse in a heap on the floor and then you will know that the pushup can be a very effective exercise.
This is also a great way to begin building the strength to do pushups if you have trouble doing them at first.
Second, pushups are much like sprints.
They train the anaerobic system, not the aerobic. Anaerobic means “without oxygen” meaning you’re out of breath within seconds.
There are not many bodyweight exercises that tax the body like pushups. Burpees, Sprints, jump rope just to name a few.
Meaning these drills can only be done for seconds to a minute without stopping to catch your breath.
The push up power course is much like sprinting and will bring you HUGE pay offs.
When you sprint you do so for 10-20 seconds or so, then rest and repeat.
And sprinters are ALWAYS lean and muscular.