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Personally, I find push-ups to be very effective at keeping my entire upper-body in shape on long vacations or times when I can't go to the gym. Also, I make 2 or 3 sets of 10-12 reps before my chest workout as it an excellent exercise for the warm-up phase. I am very interested in finding what you think of push-ups and, hopefully, we can all learn something from each other.  

Someone told me that he built ten pounds of muscle by just doing push-ups. It's really an effective exercise. Soldiers do it frquently and look at their physiques.

NoRoid:

Someone told me that he built ten pounds of muscle by just doing push-ups. It's really an effective exercise. Soldiers do it frquently and look at their physiques.

 

That's true but they do it to increase strength and stamina rather than building muscle. There are many variations of push-ups that give slightly different results. My favorite one is the close grip and fists down variation as it seems to isolate my pecs much better.