Which part of the muscle can you exercise by practicing push-ups frequently?

Speaking of the training action of push-ups, I believe everyone will be familiar with it. Many of us have also done the training action of push-ups.

Although many of us are familiar with the training action of push-ups and know what kind of training action push-ups are, do we really know push-ups? Do you know which muscles do push-ups?

Bian Xiao, I'll introduce you next. Push-ups can strengthen the muscles in those parts of our body, and I hope they can help you solve your doubts.

First, pectoralis major

For this muscle, I believe everyone should be familiar with it. I believe everyone should also know that push-ups can strengthen pectoralis major.

But why can push-ups train pectoralis major? Do you know the reason? Bian Xiao, let me give you a little analysis.

First of all, we need to know what is the main contraction function of our pectoralis major muscle. Generally speaking, when our pectoralis major contracts, its main function is to bend our shoulder joint horizontally.

What we need to know is that in the process of doing push-ups, in the stage of getting up, our shoulder joint has completed a horizontal flexion.

In other words, in the stage of doing push-ups, our pectoralis major muscles should complete the contraction force, so that our pectoralis major muscles can be stimulated to a certain extent, and then the effect of strengthening our pectoralis major muscles can be achieved.

Second, triceps brachii

Speaking of this muscle, I don't know if you are familiar with it. If you have some experience in fitness training, you should know the muscles of triceps brachii.

Triceps brachii is a muscle that exists at the back of our big arm, that is, it is opposite to our biceps brachii, and it is a pair of antagonistic muscles.

For triceps brachii, the first thing we need to know is what function our joints mainly perform when triceps brachii contracts and exerts force.

Generally speaking, the main function of our triceps contraction force is to make our elbow joint complete an extension, and when we do push-ups, our elbow joint should complete the extension in the support stage.

In other words, when we do push-ups, we can not only strengthen our pectoralis major, but also give our triceps a good muscle stimulation, thus strengthening our triceps brachii.

Of course, in the process of doing push-ups, we can strengthen many other muscles besides triceps brachii and pectoralis major. Triceps brachii and pectoralis major are just two relatively prominent muscles.

For example, the serratus anterior muscle can also be well strengthened when we do push-ups. For push-ups, we should know that this is a complex training action, which can strengthen many muscles of our body.