Is it more effective to do pushups on you knuckles or open palms?

Question

Is it more effective to do pushups on you knuckles or open palms?

Answer 1

depends if you are just trying to build the muscles. the main reason for doing pushups on your knuckles is to toughen your knuckles so that it hurts more and can do more damage without damaging you when you punch someone. so if you want that then knuckles and if you are doing just for working out muscles either way will work.

Answer 2

I wouldn't say that it's more effective, so much as I would say that it has a DIFFERENT effect. Doing them on your knuckles helps strengthen your wrists because you have to keep them straight.

For yet a another different effect, try doing them on your second knuckles, or on the backs of your hands, or thumbs, or fingertips, or one handed. You can even put your hands close together, or spread far apart for working different chest muscles. It just depends on what you want to accomplish.