Can push-ups help you lose weight? What are the effects of push-ups?

With the arrival of summer, women are busy starting their weight loss plans. Today, I want to talk to you about push-ups. Can push-ups help you lose weight? What are the uses of push-ups? I hope my article can help you.

Push-ups can help you lose weight. Although most of the time, men use push-ups for exercise, women can also use push-ups to lose weight. When women exercise, they can appropriately reduce the number of times they do it, which can also help slim down their arms and waist.

1. Improve strength: People who do push-ups for a long time can improve the strength of their upper limbs and abdomen. For boys who want to build arm muscles, doing push-ups is a good choice.

2. Exercise your balance: Push-ups require you to support and balance, so it is also helpful to improve your support and balance abilities. People who do push-ups for a long time have higher joint flexibility than the average person.

3. Lose weight: Doing push-ups will make you sweat a lot, consume your fat, and have the effect of losing weight. And this does not take up too much space, you can do it anytime and anywhere.

4. Exercise chest muscles: Push-ups are also an exercise to exercise chest muscles. Especially for boys, perfect and firm chest muscles will add a lot of points to their figure.

1. Kneeling push-ups: This is the simplest push-up movement and also the easiest. It is very suitable for women and people who are just starting to exercise.

2. Kneeling push-ups: This one is slightly more difficult than the one above. It is an advanced kneeling exercise. In this position, the arms bear more weight of the body and can better exercise the lateral pectoralis major and biceps.

3. Horizontal support push-ups: For most people, this is a standard push-up. Try to keep the body from the head to the ankles as straight as possible (in a straight line). This is also our most common push-up posture, but it is not the most difficult push-up movement. Of course, this movement is also the most basic exercise for men.

4. Push-ups and clapping: This movement is mainly to exercise our upper limb strength and explosive power. When pushing up, the hands need to clap against each other quickly, and the upper body is in a state of no support for a short time. Therefore, before doing push-ups and clapping, it is best to do a set of horizontal supported push-ups first to prevent injury due to lack of full adaptation.

5. Clapping before and after push-ups: This movement not only exercises our explosive power, but also has high requirements on our agility. First, we can become proficient in clapping before push-ups, then become proficient in clapping after push-ups, and slowly try to switch back and forth.

6. Kick and clap before push-ups: This type of push-up movement requires a higher level of coordination because the hands and feet need to work together. This set of movements can comprehensively train the explosive power of the upper limbs and the coordination of the limbs. If you are very proficient in the previous sets of movements, you can try it slowly.

7.360° rotation push-ups: This push-up movement looks fancy, but it is quite difficult to do well. You must master the above push-up techniques before trying it. This movement mainly exercises the coordination of the whole body. At the same time, you should find a larger area as possible. You can slow down at the beginning and then gradually speed up.

8. Palm-to-knee push-ups: This type of push-up is extremely difficult and it is easy to get injured if you are not skilled. It requires great explosive power. You can try it slowly once you are skilled.

9. Back extension push-ups: This movement is very difficult. The editor tried it himself but found it difficult to complete. Friends who do not exercise regularly should not try it easily. You can do it under the guidance of a coach.

Doing sit-ups for 1 minute, neither too fast nor too slow, about 30 or so (let's just count 30 for now), burns 9 kcal, so 1 sit-up is 0.3 kcal, 13 sit-ups are 3.9 kcal, 7 push-ups are roughly equivalent to 13 sit-ups so 7 push-ups are also 3.9 kcal, so 1 push-up is 0.5 kcal. Considering that there should be more than 30 sit-ups in 1 minute, it should be more than 30 or even 40, then 1 push-up is less than 0.5, should be 0.4 kcal.