Will 100 pushups a day make my chest and arms bigger???

Question

Will 100 pushups a day make my chest and arms bigger???

Answer 1

It depends on how many you can do at once. If you can do 100 push ups straight, you chest and arms( mainly triceps, very little biceps are used when doing push ups) will get bigger very slowly. Once any muscle workout exceeds 15 repetitions(push ups in your case) , it becomes an endurance workout and these types of workouts don't build muscle mass very fast. They only work on increasing your muscular endurance. However, if you can only do between 6-15 push ups at once, it becomes a muscular strength workout. Workouts that increase your muscular strength will increase your muscle mass at a faster rate than endurance.

Also, you should not be doing muscular exercises every day. When you work out a muscle, you are literally tearing muscle fibers, so they need a day to heal. This is how they get bigger.

No matter how many push ups you can do at once, doing 100 push ups every other day will make your chest and arms bigger, but the speed at which they get bigger will depend on how many push ups you can do at once. If you can do over 15 push ups and want to make your chest and arms bigger, you should start weight lifting and doing bench press. Also, push ups focus on your chest, so if you want your arms to get bigger faster, use dumbbells and do arm curls.      

Answer 2

Yeah, that'll work... you'll also grow bigger faster if you have some protein before doing the exercise... maybe some chicken or a protein shake. Of course, it all depends how big you are now -  if you've very little muscle there this will build more. I'm a bodybuilder and have a 48" chest and 18" arms, if I did that many pushups, my arms and chest would become smaller...

Answer 3

It'll def build you some mucles...so yeah

Answer 4

I do over 300 a day usually in the 110 range per set...It's a nice warm up for the chest shoulder routine...even with all those, if that's all I did...it wouldn't help much...there's not enough range of motion to build specific muscle groups..and the load isn't heavy enough.