In this video, I'm going to share with you 10 reasons why should start doing push-ups today
There is no secret that push-ups are one of the best strength workouts
Push-ups are a very great measure of strength and physical fitness
There is a reason why push-ups exist on almost every fitness test from the police force
personal trainers fitness assessment to joining the army
Now let's have a look at the benefits you can gain from doing push-ups on a regular basis
helps promote testosterone production in the body push-ups increase metabolic rate
improves flexibility and posture
Push-up is a great strength workout not just for
your chest and arms and shoulders push-up also increases your grip
strength and strengthens your core
Injury prevention when push-ups are performed
correctly and regularly they can help prevent low back injuries
Increase bone density which helps prevent skeletal disorders
Protect the shoulder joint as
it stabilizes muscles surrounding your rotator cuff joint which helps in injury prevention
Burning calories as a multi joint exercise push-ups is a very
powerful full-body workout with high calorie expenditure using up a large amount
of energy in a short period of time
Beach body push-up improves your body
composition so if you want to get in better shape and have that Beachbody you
better start doing your push-ups now
Cost free and convenience push-ups are a
simple exercise that does not require any equipment and is not time-consuming
you can do push-ups anytime anywhere without having to depend on travel time
to the gym or paying a membership fee unless you have a dog click here to see
whom to ruin my push-ups workout progress
there are different variations of push-ups and constant progression
there are probably over 100 ways you can do push-ups if you want to see a video of
my favorite variations of push-ups make sure to subscribe and turn on the
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Now this is the most important point in the video which is improving cardiovascular
health push-ups always been known to improve your cardiovascular health
raising the heart rate during exercise helps strengthen the heart muscle
enabling it to pump more oxygenated blood to the lungs and throughout the body in
addition to this a recent study conducted at Harvard the study consisted
of 1104 firefighters found a significant negative association between baseline
push-up capacity and incident cardiovascular disease risk across ten
years of follow-up the studies shown that the ability to do more push-ups
have a direct correlation in cardiovascular risk participants who
were able to complete more than 40 push-ups in a row had 96% less chance of
having a heart attack compared to participants who were able to complete
less than 10 push-ups the study also shown if you can do ten
or more pushup it significantly reduce the risk of heart disease participants
who did more push-ups were able to perform better on cardiac stress tests
which is the treadmill stress test just to be clear this is how many pushups you
can do in a row so comment down below and let me know how many pushups you can
do today also if you can't do a lot of push-ups that's fine check out this
video of ton tips that will help you improve your push-ups today so I started
on my new fitness challenge and that will be to run a 10 K in an hour or less
that doesn't sound too impressive but for me on day one I attempted to keep
the 10 kilometer an hour pace I was only able to do 6 minutes the challenge is to
extend those six minutes to a whole hour if you guys have any tips or tricks
for me on how I can improve my running in that short period of time please let
me know running has always been the thing I struggled the most with