Holy crap. I swear the quality of this content is what sets you guys apart from all the other Fitness RUclips Channels. Thanks for going beyond when it comes to bringing us useful information :)
I wanted to say the same thing. Their videos are clear, complete, really informative. I've unsubscribed from most of the other ones and I keep this one with FitnessFAQs.
Leonel Ortiz I disagree - there's a lot of talk here, but most of it is common sense. And I don't see an answer to the headline question. I'll find a different channel that answers the questions they put forward.
I've never liked doing bench press at all. I feel like it never hits my chest the right way. The pushup, however, has a very special place in my heart. I started working out at fourteen doing pushups in my room, and it gave me fairly good results and helped me build a foundation to grow my chest. I'd always prefer a pushup instead of bench.
Same. I got motivated from dragonball z when i was like 11 and I started doing push ups and ben on love with them ever since. I prefer push ups over bench anyday
Most calisthenic channels tend to not tell the truth about weights just to encourage people to do calisthenics, this channel is different. I'm a weightlifter and your approach is very objective, very detailed and complete: you put extreme focus on technique and also mobility, which is hard to see elsewhere. This channel is pure gold, BOTH for lifters and calisthenic athletes.
@@sheadoherty7434 yeah. Totally agreed. We need to stay strong in Cali fam community. These drama is rlly a bad reputation for calisthenics athlete especially for those folloeing thenx. Im a fan of Chris but.... The clout chaser video just broke my heart. Criticism is hard to digest but it's make someone even stronger and better . Luckily we got CaliMove and FitnessFAQs in these time of difficulty
@@alfiexnakama4678 He pretty much bitched it out and it was a shame, if he owned up he'd have probably come out fine, but then he switched on Austin Dunham too.
Getting out of comfort zone and doing exercises incorrectly on purpose to visually present mistakes just shows how dedicated this channel is. Great job guys.
@Juha Bach you dont have to say that you have nothing against gay people in general. This political correctness bullshit is really getting out of hand.
As a huge guy (even when in the best shape I can be at around 275lbs) I find pushups completely adequate. They carry over to being able to bench almost my own bodyweight as a max bench right away without much prep. Enjoying the hell out of high rep bodyweight squats too. Doing 500 every few days carried over to my weighted squats past my bodyweight right away. I think the larger you are, the greater the benefit.
The title says "Which is better or more effective" you did not answer that question. They title should say "how to perform the bench press and the push up - similarities and differences"
ProductionGodRa you choose. They try to be democratic because if they'll say that push ups are more effective as they do calistenics as a main duscipline, bench pressers will come and compare as always. The reality is that many people think that bench press is more brutal than push up (as you push a huge weight aka a measurement of "real man") without thinking about the benefits of both-push ups and bench press. They discuss the pros and cons of each so the chose is behind you.
Well, it depends on what kind of pushup you're doing. A one-handed pushup with your feet raised by ~1m is equivalent to a 180-lb guy pressing a 140-lb dumbell with one hand. It's crazy high load, and it also works tons of stabilizers and backup muscles in unison with each other that a bench press doesn't even touch. Also 100 times safer, and you can do them anywhere any time. I think there's no contest. I think that the benefit of the bench press over advanced pushups is mainly psychological; you're given one simple number "how much you bench?" that you can easily track and easily see increase over time, and that gives you the motivation to train. No problem there; if that gets you to the gym, go for it.
Best informative channel...short,right to the point and full of content.No bla bla american way, just German discipline.Keep up the good work ,i appreciate your videos.
Push ups can be really effective if you do them correctly in proper full range of motion, adding weight, or with different hand position variations. Speaking from experience with just doing push ups for 3-4 years as my main chest workout (along with dips) I guarantee you'd still be able to build a good ass chiseled chest with a basic bodyweight movement and don't always need to rely on a bench press unless you're a powerlifter, strongman or other if you're preferably like the barbell. Do them with gymnastic rings especially? They'll hit hard due to forcing yourself to stay balance
Evo you know you can do deep HS pushups on parallettes, dip bar or straight bar? You can also use a weight vest and have fun. Overhead press is boring.
I ve been watching calisthenics videos lately, and you are on a whole different level. Your content is nuanced, detailed and comprehensive. Also, health is one of your top concerns and is always a top priority for you guys. In short, top quality content delivered with pedagogy.
I added bench work and found my pushups improved. My stamina and desire to bang out reps randomly has greatly improved. I'm limited in weight I can use safely on the bench since I lift alone. Having a partner 2-3x week would do wonders for me. I would say this: if you bench M/W/F, use pushups (even 10 well executed ones) as warm-up/stretch and after lifting (if you have anything left), then alternating days (T/Th/Sat-Sun) add concentrated push-up routine (e.g. 100: 30, 25, 20, 15, 10).
I stopped completely with weights after "discovering" the calisthenics world, one of the reasons being it's so much more fun, so much more variation. My favourite tool is gymnastic rings, the amount of exercises possible are really huge, all my training days are different now, when I did weights, I just had 3 or 4 different training programs that I rotated that didn't change too much
To anyone who wants to increase the intensity of the pushup slowly like you would with a bench press, id recommend - First make sure you can do 25 pushups one set before you try to increase intensity Secondly increase intensity by placing a block under each of your arms and/or under your legs. Keep increasing the height of the boxes and try to go as low as possible. This will increase your range of motion slowly
This channel is really amazing!!! I used to be an athete and compete in Muay Thai but haven't had enough ispiration to work out lately but calisthenics has changed everything!
Both pushups and barbell bench press have their place in a athlete's workout plan,so I would say both exercises are equally important.I do both exercies and I have bench pressed up to 365 pounds in the 100% RAW category and done one hand pushups with feet together for sets.
An easier synopsis is if you bench press around your body weight, pushups will be effective for you. If you have gotten much stronger in your years of training, pushups will not provide an adequate workout and can regress your bench numbers. Adding to this, if you have reached this advanced point in your training, you likely have put on more weight and strain on your body. I find pushups to be an unnecessary strain on my wrists, shoulders and tendons at this point in my career. However, I did start with just pushups and recommend that to anyone starting out. Master your body weight first before moving into weights. It will lay a great foundation and control.
They actually advocate a healthy mix of weight training and calisthenics in other videos, but with a primary focus on calisthenics. While calisthenics makes for an accessible and dynamic workout, training with free weights is good to build up things that calisthenics misses such as developing legs doing loaded squats.
A bench press isolates chest, triceps, and delts. I find the triceps and delts fatigue before pecs are affected, limiting the benefit to pec development. The lower back also tends to arch, creating strain. Push ups include a plank which enlists more muscles overall to stabilize the body. While you won't get the same muscle gains from push ups compared to bench presses, you can do them anywhere with no equipment and will get great muscle tone.
I like the content, well explained. I disagree with the breathing you mentioned. Whenever you do a compound excercice like benchpress, squat, deadlift etc you take a deep breath, as deep as you can, hold it in, brace and do the reps you need to do. Thats how you protect yourself, and gives you the ability to do it with more weight. By breathing in deep and bracing you make your body work as a cilinder full of air wich is stable. If you release that air, you become an empty cilinder wich is weaker and unstable, thus more prone for injury.
Undoubtedly, Alex has the best presentation in the whole of bodybuilding community in youtube. Too good. Always eager to watch new videos on this channel. :)
bodybuilder I knew got to the point that he was wiping his ass by rotating his upper body then crunching his abs trying to reach between his legs like a woman, thats when he stopped building he said others told him of ways using either some type of wand to hold the paper or just putting the paper on the counter top corner then hoping the paper stays on the corner
The push-up is a much better all-round exercise than the bench press. It's great for developing functional strength and core stability, as well as activating and developing the chest, anterior delts, and triceps. However, unless you use extra weight, the amount of muscle that you can build with push-ups is very limited when compared with the bench press. You cannot build a giant chest with push-ups without using extra weight. I know because I used to do 750 push-ups per workout in sets of 150. My chest got big, but then it just stopped growing until I started to hit the bench. My best advice is to superset the bench press and push-up. In other words, as soon as you finish your bench press, hit the floor for some push-ups until it burns.
Functional strength is the kind of strength that is useful outside of the gym. Functional exercises, such as the squat, lunge, pull-up, and push-up, give you functional strength. The push-up is more functional than the bench press because it gets your core much more involved, which is why I said that it's an all-round better exercise than the bench press. However, you can build much more mass with the bench press.
The bench press isn't a functional exercise; the push-up is. You engage your chest every time you flex, horizontally flex, and horizontally adduct your shoulders. In other words, you engage it all day. The push-up engages your core MUCH more than does the bench press. The bench press hardly engages your core.
Your "core" doesn't mean your abs! They're different things. Also, you don't have to go heavy with the push-up for it to engage your core. In fact, the push-up engages not just the chest and core but much more of the body than does the bench press. The target is of course your sternal pectoralis major. The synergists are your clavicular pectoralis major, anterior deltoid, triceps brachii, and the short head of your biceps brachii. Another reason that the push-up is better than the bench press is that it works your serratus anterior more, which is important for shoulder health and mobility. In short, if you understand how the body functions, the push-up is a MUCH better all-round exercise than the bench press. As I suggested in my first comment, do them both to get the benefits of both. Thanks for the conversation! Must get back to work now.
The scapula is a part of the shoulder. It's the shoulder blade. Actually, the lower back is worked. The spinal erector muscles act as stabilizers. Other important stabilizers include your abs, obliques, and quads. The push-up is also better than the bench press at improving your standing push force, which is important for athleticism, and another argument in favor of its being more functional. As I keep saying, use them both to get the benefits of both. ;-)
I have multiple levels of resistance bands that I use during my push-up pyramid workout. Given that I have 3 duplicate sets [of the same bands] and each set has 5 different bands of differing resistance, there are a plethora of permutations possible when using 2-3 bands at once. I have as much variety as I’d have in a weightroom with various weight plates and dumbbells. With that said, this is probably my favorite fitness channel on RUclips. You guys are LEGIT.
Push-ups with one leg hiked up vertically will increase difficulty too. I prefer push ups to bench press because I think it engages more core stabilizer muscles + rip lasts longer.
honeslty i see push up is much much more effective for my chest with a GREAT FORM ofcourse (me personally) i get more pump with push ups more than bench presses i see progress with push ups far more than bench press
Push-ups build muscular endurance bench press build strength not a difficult discussion both are great exercises depends on what type of body you want Cut Ripped body or Bulky body
Totally different exercises. But many people can't do bench press because of their elbows. Most people don't realize that to build chest muscle, you have to do incline bench press. Flats work your shoulders and triceps to much. Push Ups are incredibly effective to. Functional fitness.
Both are similar... more people can do body weight exercises because they generally require less overall strength and/or equipment. But you don't hear the iron plates clanking together... such a satisfying sound. I do both. One arm push-ups are the pinnacle of push-ups, but not as hard as a one arm pull-up.
Excellent video! Really concise and to the point! :-) I would like to add one point about the progression on one arm push-ups: The one arm push-up becomes harder the closer your legs are together. This actually makes for a good way of progressing difficulty. I personally start at a position, where I touch my heel to my knee pit and then extend both legs. This is just to have a reproducible start position. From there I move my feet outwards or inwards by one 'foot-width' at a time to adjust the difficulty. You can also move one foot on one side only and adjust the angle of your body to include finer steps.
Use resistance bands to increase the load. Or use pushup handles (or dumbbells) to counter the reduced range of motion when using a weight vest. Or do both (bands and DBs+vest.)
At 26 seconds into this video I'm going to have to say that push-ups are more joint friendly as I have injured my shoulder doing bench press. Now I got to wait 8 weeks to get back on the calisthenics.😢
Which is better? Depends on what you're trying to accomplish. If you're trying to get stronger and build a lot of muscle, bench press. If you're trying to get stronger for something like the military, push ups. There is no "better" movement. They're both practical and great. It depends on what your goal is
Anyone who hasn't seen Brendan Meyers videos on this topic, I highly recommend it. This video and Brendans are great and informative aswell as two different point of views
One very effective resistance variation with push ups was overlooked: feet elevation. When you elevate your feet, the load becomes shifted towards your head. Theoretically, you can elevate all the way up to doing handstand push ups by placing feet on a wall. Although, to do so, the movement shifts from "bench press" to "overhead press". I have done many thousands of push ups between two chairs for greater depth of movement and used a third chair for my feet with an object to elevate my feet further. Tip for frequent travelers: specify a hotel room with 2 double beds rather than 1 king size bed. You'll usually find those rooms will have at least 2 chairs in them. Great for doing push ups as well as Lat Dips.
john hanrahan the further you elevate your feet the more you get away from that movement pattern of pushup and the more you use your shoulders. yes it gets harder but it also gets different. that's why we didn't put it in.
More effective for WHAT? Which specific goal? Obviously if you're a powerlifter preparing for a competition then push ups won't help you; especially the last few weeks when specificity are paramount.
You made some good points... Get your hands on types of "French Contrast Training" or "Contrast" at all... From a functional standpoint you need both to develop holistic athletic skills and strength.
The human flag is fairly simple. You just do it how you think you would. Grab a straight object which you can wrap your hands around, and use your body to push yourself horizontally. If what you are asking for is an "easy" way to do a human flag, then, sorry, but there is no way. A human flag involves a massive amount of arm, chest, core, leg, and grip strength, and it is pretty much impossible unless you are extremely light or you have been doing calisthenics for years.
I think it’s to get the full range of motion of your shoulder blades. If you do this, you’ll also feel a muscle in your armpit contracting, but I’m not sure what that muscle is.
Good video, but the answer to any of these debates is always that it depends on your goals and that whichever you decide is "better" for those goals, it should be supported by the other. In particular, the pushup provides a functional pattern to judge the effectiveness of your bench press and/or identify developing imbalances. The only "which is better?" Debate that I feel has a pretty clear answer is that free weights and body weight are both better than machines (except the cable pulley) for 95% of people. In the cases where machines have benefits, they should usually be seen as a phase. rehabbing an injured joint. Putting finishing touches on a body building regimen. Learning basic muscle recruitment cues. Overcoming a strength imbalance. Aside from that, strength training should be seen first as one discipline, in which weighted and unweighted exercises support each other.
pushups are more effective for building strength and muscle endurance, mate. They engage multiple muscle groups, including the chest, shoulders, triceps, and core. While bench press primarily targets the chest, pushups provide a more functional and holistic workout.
Because of the proper form of the push up you will work different muscles (kinda). The protraction of the shoulder blades involves the serratus anterior which the bench press does not.
After 3 years at the Gym i can say i like to do 25 Push up as a Warm up and then i do 5 Sets of Bench Press, then 5 Sets of Incline Bench and then 5 Sets of Dumbell Bench Presses and after 45 to 50 my Chest is done. IF i had to pick a Favorite it would be the Dumbell Bench Press.
You can also add a resistance band on pushups, you make it go from one hand, across your back, and to the other hand. A big band will make your pushups much much harder
That's awesome. I do 100 everyday and my boyfriend can do 100 and sometimes 50, 60. I can do 25 one armed pushups as well. You keep up the good work though! :)
Margaret Ricketts Hey, that’s absolutely awesome. You and your boyfriend are real superstars. Are you stopping at 100 or are you pushing yourself further ? Thanks 🙏🏻
Guys, will there be some new motivational video soon? Probably my favorite calisthenics channel. I included you into my best calisthenics channel video :)
This is an excellent video, but anyone who thinks you can build more size and strength doing push ups over the bench press is flat out wrong. There are benefits to both that the other won't give you, but the bench press is superior for overall muscle hypertrophy and pure strength.
Aaron Granum I wouldn't necessarily say strength. Guys can have lots of muscle mass but not necessarily that strong. Whereas by combining the two, it's a winning deal
Aaron Granum nah i just do pushups and i bench more then a lot of benchers my age and older, my chest looks better too, they both work, pushups are just funner in my opinion
Andrew Bryant well that can be your genetics or your work ethic compared to theirs too. Because it is really easy to bench more then the average gym bro.
Aaron Granum Well, definitely Bench press is more effective than push ups. BUT, you can still build muscle mass and strength with push ups. It just takes a lot more time. Either way, I honestly don't thing that anyone doing calisthenics would just focus on push ups for muscle mass or even strength. There are lots of bodyweight exercises than can help you increase your strength and improve you chest muscles etc.
Weights are more for power, strength & mass building whereas bodyweight exercises are for stability, endurance & functional fitness. We did nothing but bodyweight exercises in the Marine Corps
In my opinion the Bech Press is superior in every way. The fact that makes this true is because you can't add as much resistance doing Push Ups as you can add when you have a bar. Volume and Intensity training are key to getting stronger and bigger. When you do Calisthenics you're limited in terms of adding weights specially when you're talking about Push Ups. Sure you can do different variations and add some resistance to it but it doesn't compare to what you can do with a bar. In order to get bigger you need to get stronger and since you're limited in weights you have to do High Volume. There's no way high volume only will give you the potencial to get the same results as doing maximum effort method combined with repetition method. If you wanna get the best results possible and still do Calisthenics as your main style of training you should mix it with weighted training and focusing on squats and deadlifts to build up posterior chain and legs. Not to mention the traps being underdeveloped by doing Calisthenics only and that muscle group plays a huge feature when it comes to look big.
Igor Veloso I think you are wrong...training for strenght Is diferent than training for mass my friend....the apply of weight makes you bigger and stronger...but weight Is not the only variable for muscle mass, In fact If you want muscle mass the best variable Is how much time under tension you can endure in a set . Lets supose you benchpress 60kg(30kg each side) with a tempo 1x2x1x2 most probably thats easy because you are resting between executions....try doing (40kg/50kg) with a tempo 4x0x4x0 that s time under tension. Im a Bodybuilder and admire calisthenics , acording to what I just wrote above...The aplication for muscle mass can be made In calisthenics. But still...I never done it. Yet nice discussion. 🤙
Anybody who thinks push ups are as effective as a bench press is absolutely delusional... If you like body weight excercise fine, but let's not get delusional to justify your love for calisthenics.
If you don't want to get big don't bulk, it's all about the food. The real reason why calisthenics guys are so lean is probably not that it's better at burning fat (which it isn't). But rather that extra fat greatly hurt your ability to perform the exercises.
I do push ups with my daughter on my back. As she gets older, the weight increases.
The Raging Platypus and when she’s married, her husband joins the weight
Same with my sisters
@@mushy18100 now i know why dads dont allow their daughter dating
I'll do that with my 3 years-old sister.
Sir. Blur ....
Holy crap. I swear the quality of this content is what sets you guys apart from all the other Fitness RUclips Channels. Thanks for going beyond when it comes to bringing us useful information :)
I wanted to say the same thing.
Their videos are clear, complete, really informative.
I've unsubscribed from most of the other ones and I keep this one with FitnessFAQs.
Leonel Ortiz Check out Jeff Cavlier from Athlean X.. He has tons of informative no-nonsense vids :-) 'Putting the sience back in strength'
And it looks like HE does a lot of weight training.
Leonel Ortiz I disagree - there's a lot of talk here, but most of it is common sense. And I don't see an answer to the headline question. I'll find a different channel that answers the questions they put forward.
Ninjamurai II TOTALLY AGREE. That guy knows fitness and how to teach it.
I've never liked doing bench press at all. I feel like it never hits my chest the right way. The pushup, however, has a very special place in my heart. I started working out at fourteen doing pushups in my room, and it gave me fairly good results and helped me build a foundation to grow my chest. I'd always prefer a pushup instead of bench.
Lmao I’m the opposite bench feels smooth my push-ups feel awkward and plus it’s ezier for me to check form during bench.
@@rahsan1509 🧢 pushup always give a chest pump
@@craigrankine9867 It's his experience, 🤡
@@craigrankine9867 i never grew much chest muscle until i started bench press, and i could do a lot of push ups
Same. I got motivated from dragonball z when i was like 11 and I started doing push ups and ben on love with them ever since. I prefer push ups over bench anyday
Most calisthenic channels tend to not tell the truth about weights just to encourage people to do calisthenics, this channel is different.
I'm a weightlifter and your approach is very objective, very detailed and complete: you put extreme focus on technique and also mobility, which is hard to see elsewhere.
This channel is pure gold, BOTH for lifters and calisthenic athletes.
@Joe Brooks Your comment hasn't aged well😂
@@sheadoherty7434 i smell drama 🤔
@@alfiexnakama4678 It was drama that ruined his rep amongst the fitness community.
@@sheadoherty7434 yeah. Totally agreed. We need to stay strong in Cali fam community. These drama is rlly a bad reputation for calisthenics athlete especially for those folloeing thenx. Im a fan of Chris but.... The clout chaser video just broke my heart. Criticism is hard to digest but it's make someone even stronger and better . Luckily we got CaliMove and FitnessFAQs in these time of difficulty
@@alfiexnakama4678 He pretty much bitched it out and it was a shame, if he owned up he'd have probably come out fine, but then he switched on Austin Dunham too.
2:37 ~ *cleanest one arm pushup*
Tamil ah...😄
Agreed!
He's pro
@@kkev1 yes he is
wtf best calisthenics channel hands down...
lucas if you already haven't, you should try the red Delta project, that's a great Calisthenics channel.
lucas actually thenex is *
So we just gonna act like Thenx isn't a thing...well uh ok i guess
i like training pal
Cough cough ... Austin Dunham
Getting out of comfort zone and doing exercises incorrectly on purpose to visually present mistakes just shows how dedicated this channel is. Great job guys.
All fitness channels do it.........
this guy's push-up form is on a whole different level.
You gotta clench them ass cheeks
Should've seen me in prison, or any of the guys I worked out w...mf action figures.
Pushups are my favorite exercise *hands down*
Nano Rivera bada bump
took me a second haha
And bench press hands up
Goddamn you. You’re fucking awesome, man.
*hands down*
*ass up*
My parents walked in at 1:45 now theyre asking me weird questions
@Juha Bach you dont have to say that you have nothing against gay people in general. This political correctness bullshit is really getting out of hand.
@Juha Bach hahaha sick world
LOL
What is the problem?
I really commend you guys for this video. No bullshit biased statements but a fair comparison even though you are a calisthenics focused channel.
That’s what I love about Germany, people there really make great stuffs! Japan is also like that, 2 really awesome countries
Will it still work if i have a shirt on??
rabi tamoot What kind of a question is that? Of course
unfortunately no and you'll need to wear a blue shorts too to work.
eitiug guite don't forget about the beard and mustache
Nah it was patched in the recent update
lol!!!
Me watching calimove alone: 3:10
Calimove when my parents walk in: 1:45
XD
As a huge guy (even when in the best shape I can be at around 275lbs) I find pushups completely adequate. They carry over to being able to bench almost my own bodyweight as a max bench right away without much prep.
Enjoying the hell out of high rep bodyweight squats too. Doing 500 every few days carried over to my weighted squats past my bodyweight right away.
I think the larger you are, the greater the benefit.
The title says "Which is better or more effective" you did not answer that question.
They title should say "how to perform the bench press and the push up - similarities and differences"
ProductionGodRa you choose. They try to be democratic because if they'll say that push ups are more effective as they do calistenics as a main duscipline, bench pressers will come and compare as always. The reality is that many people think that bench press is more brutal than push up (as you push a huge weight aka a measurement of "real man") without thinking about the benefits of both-push ups and bench press. They discuss the pros and cons of each so the chose is behind you.
Well, it depends on what kind of pushup you're doing. A one-handed pushup with your feet raised by ~1m is equivalent to a 180-lb guy pressing a 140-lb dumbell with one hand. It's crazy high load, and it also works tons of stabilizers and backup muscles in unison with each other that a bench press doesn't even touch. Also 100 times safer, and you can do them anywhere any time. I think there's no contest.
I think that the benefit of the bench press over advanced pushups is mainly psychological; you're given one simple number "how much you bench?" that you can easily track and easily see increase over time, and that gives you the motivation to train. No problem there; if that gets you to the gym, go for it.
I agree Rodney Burton. Muscles in unison is the key for me in the decision. The entire philosophy behind calisthenics.
It's just about the clicks, but i don't mind because their content is superior.
ProductionGodRa click bait title
Best informative channel...short,right to the point and full of content.No bla bla american way, just German discipline.Keep up the good work ,i appreciate your videos.
nigga what are you on about
haha
You had me till no bla bla bla haha
Nigga you stereotyping but Then again you right 🤣🤣
i like your word. "german dicipline".
Push ups are my favourite exercise hands down. Bench press are my favourite hands up.
Push ups can be really effective if you do them correctly in proper full range of motion, adding weight, or with different hand position variations.
Speaking from experience with just doing push ups for 3-4 years as my main chest workout (along with dips) I guarantee you'd still be able to build a good ass chiseled chest with a basic bodyweight movement and don't always need to rely on a bench press unless you're a powerlifter, strongman or other if you're preferably like the barbell. Do them with gymnastic rings especially? They'll hit hard due to forcing yourself to stay balance
Pics? Its been 8years now xd
overhead press vs handstand push up
yeah we need that vid
Overhead press: Better range of motion, better progression by adding more weight.
Handstand PU: Better balance and core strength.
Evoo Why Better Range of motion. when you do hspu on bars you have at least the same rom
El Eggs because everyone can do handstand pushups on a bar. lol m8
Evo you know you can do deep HS pushups on parallettes, dip bar or straight bar? You can also use a weight vest and have fun. Overhead press is boring.
New Calisthenicmovement video... Prepare to be sore tomorrow 😂
friends & fries Hahahahaha agreed!
Dave Zapanta o
I ve been watching calisthenics videos lately, and you are on a whole different level. Your content is nuanced, detailed and comprehensive. Also, health is one of your top concerns and is always a top priority for you guys. In short, top quality content delivered with pedagogy.
I added bench work and found my pushups improved. My stamina and desire to bang out reps randomly has greatly improved. I'm limited in weight I can use safely on the bench since I lift alone. Having a partner 2-3x week would do wonders for me. I would say this: if you bench M/W/F, use pushups (even 10 well executed ones) as warm-up/stretch and after lifting (if you have anything left), then alternating days (T/Th/Sat-Sun) add concentrated push-up routine (e.g. 100: 30, 25, 20, 15, 10).
You can also use resistance bands with push ups which increases the intensity quite a lot.
Best exercise is the one that you do.
I stopped completely with weights after "discovering" the calisthenics world, one of the reasons being it's so much more fun, so much more variation. My favourite tool is gymnastic rings, the amount of exercises possible are really huge, all my training days are different now, when I did weights, I just had 3 or 4 different training programs that I rotated that didn't change too much
To anyone who wants to increase the intensity of the pushup slowly like you would with a bench press, id recommend -
First make sure you can do 25 pushups one set before you try to increase intensity
Secondly increase intensity by placing a block under each of your arms and/or under your legs. Keep increasing the height of the boxes and try to go as low as possible. This will increase your range of motion slowly
Me: watches 8 minute video on bench press vs pushups
Conclusion: *implement both*
1:17 hell no I ain't doing that.. i might get my cheeks busted
😂😂😂😂😂
Prison push-ups lmaooo
😂
you guys convinced me to buy gymnast rings! I can't wait to try them later on; they look fun!
Jason L. I want to get them but not sure where to put them
DO Calisthenics you can buy a cheap pull up bar and put them over it :')
Are you pro yet
Harrison Green lmao
Yeah have you become pro yet?
Imagine these guys being your physical education teachers. We'd definitely have a healthier population.
Why isn't that happening any time soon?
This channel is really amazing!!! I used to be an athete and compete in Muay Thai but haven't had enough ispiration to work out lately but calisthenics has changed everything!
Both pushups and barbell bench press have their place in a athlete's workout plan,so I would say both exercises are equally important.I do both exercies and I have bench pressed up to 365 pounds in the 100% RAW category and done one hand pushups with feet together for sets.
An easier synopsis is if you bench press around your body weight, pushups will be effective for you.
If you have gotten much stronger in your years of training, pushups will not provide an adequate workout and can regress your bench numbers.
Adding to this, if you have reached this advanced point in your training, you likely have put on more weight and strain on your body.
I find pushups to be an unnecessary strain on my wrists, shoulders and tendons at this point in my career. However, I did start with just pushups and recommend that to anyone starting out. Master your body weight first before moving into weights. It will lay a great foundation and control.
Here’s a shocker: do both
I don’t think it’s legal
@@liukang1240 lol i do both
@@fajaralifriyandi4112 me not have money, sorry. Only calisthenics!!
Aussie?
They actually advocate a healthy mix of weight training and calisthenics in other videos, but with a primary focus on calisthenics. While calisthenics makes for an accessible and dynamic workout, training with free weights is good to build up things that calisthenics misses such as developing legs doing loaded squats.
A bench press isolates chest, triceps, and delts. I find the triceps and delts fatigue before pecs are affected, limiting the benefit to pec development. The lower back also tends to arch, creating strain. Push ups include a plank which enlists more muscles overall to stabilize the body. While you won't get the same muscle gains from push ups compared to bench presses, you can do them anywhere with no equipment and will get great muscle tone.
hvymettle and won’t get a shoulder injury like you can with a bench press
I like the content, well explained. I disagree with the breathing you mentioned. Whenever you do a compound excercice like benchpress, squat, deadlift etc you take a deep breath, as deep as you can, hold it in, brace and do the reps you need to do. Thats how you protect yourself, and gives you the ability to do it with more weight.
By breathing in deep and bracing you make your body work as a cilinder full of air wich is stable. If you release that air, you become an empty cilinder wich is weaker and unstable, thus more prone for injury.
Push ups are much better
Undoubtedly, Alex has the best presentation in the whole of bodybuilding community in youtube. Too good. Always eager to watch new videos on this channel. :)
bodybuilders cannot scratch their back
mazin alharthi I wander how some of them wipe their asses😂😂😂
Yeah, those bodybuilders who compete and take massive amounts of steroids.
mazin alharthi did you ever see natural bodybuilders or fake nattys?
bodybuilder I knew got to the point that he was wiping his ass by rotating his upper body then crunching his abs trying to reach between his legs like a woman, thats when he stopped building
he said others told him of ways using either some type of wand to hold the paper or just putting the paper on the counter top corner then hoping the paper stays on the corner
mazin alharthi body builders are more flexible than you think
you can vary the intensity of pushups by keeping weight plates on your back.
The push-up is a much better all-round exercise than the bench press. It's great for developing functional strength and core stability, as well as activating and developing the chest, anterior delts, and triceps. However, unless you use extra weight, the amount of muscle that you can build with push-ups is very limited when compared with the bench press. You cannot build a giant chest with push-ups without using extra weight. I know because I used to do 750 push-ups per workout in sets of 150. My chest got big, but then it just stopped growing until I started to hit the bench. My best advice is to superset the bench press and push-up. In other words, as soon as you finish your bench press, hit the floor for some push-ups until it burns.
Functional strength is the kind of strength that is useful outside of the gym. Functional exercises, such as the squat, lunge, pull-up, and push-up, give you functional strength. The push-up is more functional than the bench press because it gets your core much more involved, which is why I said that it's an all-round better exercise than the bench press. However, you can build much more mass with the bench press.
The bench press isn't a functional exercise; the push-up is. You engage your chest every time you flex, horizontally flex, and horizontally adduct your shoulders. In other words, you engage it all day. The push-up engages your core MUCH more than does the bench press. The bench press hardly engages your core.
Your "core" doesn't mean your abs! They're different things. Also, you don't have to go heavy with the push-up for it to engage your core. In fact, the push-up engages not just the chest and core but much more of the body than does the bench press. The target is of course your sternal pectoralis major. The synergists are your clavicular pectoralis major, anterior deltoid, triceps brachii, and the short head of your biceps brachii. Another reason that the push-up is better than the bench press is that it works your serratus anterior more, which is important for shoulder health and mobility. In short, if you understand how the body functions, the push-up is a MUCH better all-round exercise than the bench press. As I suggested in my first comment, do them both to get the benefits of both. Thanks for the conversation! Must get back to work now.
The scapula is a part of the shoulder. It's the shoulder blade. Actually, the lower back is worked. The spinal erector muscles act as stabilizers. Other important stabilizers include your abs, obliques, and quads. The push-up is also better than the bench press at improving your standing push force, which is important for athleticism, and another argument in favor of its being more functional. As I keep saying, use them both to get the benefits of both. ;-)
Disagree. I'm a gymnast and have a better chest than my friends who lift weights. Try weighted, rings and different variations.
I have multiple levels of resistance bands that I use during my push-up pyramid workout. Given that I have 3 duplicate sets [of the same bands] and each set has 5 different bands of differing resistance, there are a plethora of permutations possible when using 2-3 bands at once. I have as much variety as I’d have in a weightroom with various weight plates and dumbbells. With that said, this is probably my favorite fitness channel on RUclips. You guys are LEGIT.
The best Is to do both!
The most satisfying aspect of these videos is how clean their form is when performing any exercise
pushups are badass, i use a reinforced bag and put plates in there, so its adjustable weight, its the best way to progress
Divine Terror I put 10lbs sandbags in a knapsack, easy to adjust weight and no steel digging into spots.
Push ups are bad ass, but lets be honest. Bench press is much better.
@@muggerb8852 unless you want to look like Hulk, they are the same.
Push-ups with one leg hiked up vertically will increase difficulty too. I prefer push ups to bench press because I think it engages more core stabilizer muscles + rip lasts longer.
honeslty i see push up is much much more effective for my chest with a GREAT FORM ofcourse (me personally)
i get more pump with push ups more than bench presses
i see progress with push ups far more than bench press
Push-ups build muscular endurance bench press build strength not a difficult discussion both are great exercises depends on what type of body you want Cut Ripped body or Bulky body
I always thought you would
You gotta crawl be fore you walk.
Start of with push ups then go
Bench press once you get the hang of
Push ups.
daniel spell I did it the other way around lol. Was never able to do a real push-up in my life until I started weight training.
Totally different exercises. But many people can't do bench press because of their elbows. Most people don't realize that to build chest muscle, you have to do incline bench press. Flats work your shoulders and triceps to much.
Push Ups are incredibly effective to. Functional fitness.
Resistance bands specific to pushups really make it difficult and add progression nicely.
Both are similar... more people can do body weight exercises because they generally require less overall strength and/or equipment. But you don't hear the iron plates clanking together... such a satisfying sound. I do both. One arm push-ups are the pinnacle of push-ups, but not as hard as a one arm pull-up.
I'm not sure I'm comfortable with the "partner" method...
What's wrong with it?
Excellent video! Really concise and to the point! :-) I would like to add one point about the progression on one arm push-ups:
The one arm push-up becomes harder the closer your legs are together. This actually makes for a good way of progressing difficulty. I personally start at a position, where I touch my heel to my knee pit and then extend both legs. This is just to have a reproducible start position. From there I move my feet outwards or inwards by one 'foot-width' at a time to adjust the difficulty. You can also move one foot on one side only and adjust the angle of your body to include finer steps.
I wish I knew this stuff when I first started working out as a kid/teen.
Use resistance bands to increase the load. Or use pushup handles (or dumbbells) to counter the reduced range of motion when using a weight vest. Or do both (bands and DBs+vest.)
Finally! I've been waiting for this video for so long
Everything depends on the goal one's training to achieve.
At 26 seconds into this video I'm going to have to say that push-ups are more joint friendly as I have injured my shoulder doing bench press. Now I got to wait 8 weeks to get back on the calisthenics.😢
Depends on how you got the injury. Poor form, too heavy weights or both...
Yeshua's Disciple That’s not the exercise’s fault.
Which is better? Depends on what you're trying to accomplish. If you're trying to get stronger and build a lot of muscle, bench press. If you're trying to get stronger for something like the military, push ups. There is no "better" movement. They're both practical and great. It depends on what your goal is
3:38 oh yeah, get it
Haha
Anyone who hasn't seen Brendan Meyers videos on this topic, I highly recommend it. This video and Brendans are great and informative aswell as two different point of views
7:31 me when final exam was tomorrow
One very effective resistance variation with push ups was overlooked: feet elevation.
When you elevate your feet, the load becomes shifted towards your head. Theoretically, you can elevate all the way up to doing handstand push ups by placing feet on a wall.
Although, to do so, the movement shifts from "bench press" to "overhead press".
I have done many thousands of push ups between two chairs for greater depth of movement and used a third chair for my feet with an object to elevate my feet further.
Tip for frequent travelers: specify a hotel room with 2 double beds rather than 1 king size bed. You'll usually find those rooms will have at least 2 chairs in them. Great for doing push ups as well as Lat Dips.
john hanrahan the further you elevate your feet the more you get away from that movement pattern of pushup and the more you use your shoulders. yes it gets harder but it also gets different. that's why we didn't put it in.
More effective for WHAT? Which specific goal? Obviously if you're a powerlifter preparing for a competition then push ups won't help you; especially the last few weeks when specificity are paramount.
You made some good points...
Get your hands on types of "French Contrast Training" or "Contrast" at all...
From a functional standpoint you need both to develop holistic athletic skills and strength.
Try push ups for tendon strength. 40 seconds down and 40 seconds back up. Ouch!
Best channel i have ever seen till now for building strenth
*1:46** meanwhile on a random roof-top in Germany*
The second rep at the very beginning of this video is the perfect pushup.
Sir plese make video on how to do human flag
The human flag is fairly simple. You just do it how you think you would. Grab a straight object which you can wrap your hands around, and use your body to push yourself horizontally. If what you are asking for is an "easy" way to do a human flag, then, sorry, but there is no way. A human flag involves a massive amount of arm, chest, core, leg, and grip strength, and it is pretty much impossible unless you are extremely light or you have been doing calisthenics for years.
there's easy version of human flag.... the laid down version.
Push-ups as regular, diamonds, wide: help one for bench pressing I used to do them on two cinder blocks.
Push up is far more greater than bench press💪💪🔥
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You pussy
I do them with a backpack on it really helps!
Just load the bag up with books!
What's exactly the function/purpose of "back rounding" at the top of the push up that dude shows?
Baginda Hutapea shoulderblade protraction. Please Watch the Perfect pushup Video on our Channel for further info.
Baginda Hutapea serratus anterior engagement
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I think it’s to get the full range of motion of your shoulder blades. If you do this, you’ll also feel a muscle in your armpit contracting, but I’m not sure what that muscle is.
Good video, but the answer to any of these debates is always that it depends on your goals and that whichever you decide is "better" for those goals, it should be supported by the other. In particular, the pushup provides a functional pattern to judge the effectiveness of your bench press and/or identify developing imbalances.
The only "which is better?" Debate that I feel has a pretty clear answer is that free weights and body weight are both better than machines (except the cable pulley) for 95% of people. In the cases where machines have benefits, they should usually be seen as a phase. rehabbing an injured joint. Putting finishing touches on a body building regimen. Learning basic muscle recruitment cues. Overcoming a strength imbalance.
Aside from that, strength training should be seen first as one discipline, in which weighted and unweighted exercises support each other.
Bench Press is boring and limits movement of hands.From my opinion it's much more fun to do Push Ups.
Park Fitness can't over load as well on a push-up bench hits your stabilizers in a different way. Overall the bench is better
non yobussiness do your push ups on a gym rings haha
Very true and you should not try something like clap push ups for the BENCH PRESS
non yobussiness You can get a friend to help with overload on push ups.. It was shown in the video.
Weighted vest(adds 20 kg), lifted feet + using TRX, Resistance Bands push up.
Best channel hands down!! Should get more subscribers
pushups are more effective for building strength and muscle endurance, mate. They engage multiple muscle groups, including the chest, shoulders, triceps, and core. While bench press primarily targets the chest, pushups provide a more functional and holistic workout.
Great video! Pushups are fun because there are so many variations and ways to get creative. Love bodyweight training :)
Because of the proper form of the push up you will work different muscles (kinda). The protraction of the shoulder blades involves the serratus anterior which the bench press does not.
7:37 this guy reminds me of a centipede
HOLY SHIT. YOU'RE RIGHT.
After 3 years at the Gym i can say i like to do 25 Push up as a Warm up and then i do 5 Sets of Bench Press, then 5 Sets of Incline Bench and then 5 Sets of Dumbell Bench Presses and after 45 to 50 my Chest is done. IF i had to pick a Favorite it would be the Dumbell Bench Press.
*Barbell exercises are king for strength training. No way around it.*
You can also add a resistance band on pushups, you make it go from one hand, across your back, and to the other hand. A big band will make your pushups much much harder
At the moment my best push up record is 59. My target is 100 every other day.
That's awesome. I do 100 everyday and my boyfriend can do 100 and sometimes 50, 60. I can do 25 one armed pushups as well. You keep up the good work though! :)
Margaret Ricketts Hey, that’s absolutely awesome. You and your boyfriend are real superstars. Are you stopping at 100 or are you pushing yourself further ? Thanks 🙏🏻
Yes it is and thank you! I am going to aim for 110. So yes I will keep going cause pushups are my favorite exercise! :)
Margaret Ricketts 💯👌🏻
lol I can do 10 knee pushups top rip
Guys, will there be some new motivational video soon? Probably my favorite calisthenics channel. I included you into my best calisthenics channel video :)
Lol, a McDonald's ad came up during this video. It is a sign.
I'd prefer push ups. More reps, more pain, more gain. In saying that nothing wrong with bench press either.
Great channel by the way.
Sven is a beast!
Bambam Lee I know right?
barbell behind the neck say start of with acombined weight of 60 lbs weight ist realy isnt important reps are
Guy, your have the best viedos and explanations one can offer. Thanks.
This is an excellent video, but anyone who thinks you can build more size and strength doing push ups over the bench press is flat out wrong. There are benefits to both that the other won't give you, but the bench press is superior for overall muscle hypertrophy and pure strength.
Aaron Granum I wouldn't necessarily say strength. Guys can have lots of muscle mass but not necessarily that strong. Whereas by combining the two, it's a winning deal
Aaron Granum nah i just do pushups and i bench more then a lot of benchers my age and older, my chest looks better too, they both work, pushups are just funner in my opinion
Andrew Bryant well that can be your genetics or your work ethic compared to theirs too. Because it is really easy to bench more then the average gym bro.
Aaron Granum Well, definitely Bench press is more effective than push ups. BUT, you can still build muscle mass and strength with push ups. It just takes a lot more time. Either way, I honestly don't thing that anyone doing calisthenics would just focus on push ups for muscle mass or even strength. There are lots of bodyweight exercises than can help you increase your strength and improve you chest muscles etc.
strength as in what ? pure lifting ? punching ? dangling ? strength is relative to the kind of work you are doing
You guys are awesome. Very informative video. Thank you for creating and sharing.
Well the thing is most people still do both anyways
Weights are more for power, strength & mass building whereas bodyweight exercises are for stability, endurance & functional fitness. We did nothing but bodyweight exercises in the Marine Corps
In my opinion the Bech Press is superior in every way.
The fact that makes this true is because you can't add as much resistance doing Push Ups as you can add when you have a bar. Volume and Intensity training are key to getting stronger and bigger. When you do Calisthenics you're limited in terms of adding weights specially when you're talking about Push Ups. Sure you can do different variations and add some resistance to it but it doesn't compare to what you can do with a bar. In order to get bigger you need to get stronger and since you're limited in weights you have to do High Volume. There's no way high volume only will give you the potencial to get the same results as doing maximum effort method combined with repetition method.
If you wanna get the best results possible and still do Calisthenics as your main style of training you should mix it with weighted training and focusing on squats and deadlifts to build up posterior chain and legs. Not to mention the traps being underdeveloped by doing Calisthenics only and that muscle group plays a huge feature when it comes to look big.
Igor Veloso do calistetics and do legs at a gym because you cant get legs with bodyweight training
nobody 542 Yeah I forgot to mention that. Lots of posterior chain mainly since there's pretty much none of that when doing Calisthenics.
Igor Veloso I think you are wrong...training for strenght Is diferent than training for mass my friend....the apply of weight makes you bigger and stronger...but weight Is not the only variable for muscle mass, In fact If you want muscle mass the best variable Is how much time under tension you can endure in a set . Lets supose you benchpress 60kg(30kg each side) with a tempo 1x2x1x2 most probably thats easy because you are resting between executions....try doing (40kg/50kg) with a tempo 4x0x4x0 that s time under tension.
Im a Bodybuilder and admire calisthenics , acording to what I just wrote above...The aplication for muscle mass can be made In calisthenics. But still...I never done it.
Yet nice discussion.
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How about they make 100lb + resistance bands now throw em over your back hold an end in each hand wallah resistance to your push ups
I like do both and switch it up from time to time
Extremely informative video!
Simple just do both, but reserve the press ups for at home.
Anybody who thinks push ups are as effective as a bench press is absolutely delusional...
If you like body weight excercise fine, but let's not get delusional to justify your love for calisthenics.
Trapasaurus Flex Handstand push-ups vs military press would be a better comparison
I agree. The biggest drawback of PUs is imo that you will reach a plateau much faster if you continuously increase intensity.
Arnold Schwarzenegger is a massive fan of body weight training. Listen to him, he knows his shit.
If you don't want to get big don't bulk, it's all about the food. The real reason why calisthenics guys are so lean is probably not that it's better at burning fat (which it isn't). But rather that extra fat greatly hurt your ability to perform the exercises.
Dr.'sorders or you can lift heavy low reps to get stronger while not getting much bigger