Can Push ups help your bench press?

Pushups can definitely improve your bench press. Pushups start off as a strength exercise, then improve to a strength & endurance exercise, and they finally end up as a conditioning/recovery exercise; which ultimately benefits any future chest exercise that you do. The faster your body can recover, the more you can do. IMO - The pushup is by far a much more functional exercise than the bench press. The bench press is better than the pushup when it comes to aesthetics though.

 

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I'm going to be an ******* about this and if your not the sensitive type, you will appreciate this.

Are you a combat athlete? Are you interested in training like a combat athlete? Well, why in the **** would you want to do pushups to "improve" putting at least a couple of hundred pounds over your most valuable possesions? i.e. teeth,eyes,throat,nose, chest, and your overall ****ing face?!

Will it improve you as a fighter? **** no. So, go do jumping burpees, work on your one armed pushup, do clapping pushups and above all, use the ****ing search function in Google before starting asinine threads. Please and ****ing thank you.

 

This is incorrect. Doing them slower only stresses your muscles out more; it doesn't add resistance. Resistance comes from mass, which is what you control with the bench press. Push ups are fine for a warm up, but in order to develop power and explosiveness, you need to do bench press as well (preferably one arm bench), with lower reps/higher weight being the focus. Clap push ups are also preferable to normal ones, as they develop fast twitch muscle fibers better.

They only improve bench press to a degree, and then like you said, become an endurance exercise. The only way to consistently improve strength is through added resistance. And bench press doesn't have to be strictly about aesthetics. Doing 3 sets of 4-6 reps will build power; it's the sets of 8-12 reps that build aesthetics. And how are push ups more "functional" than bench press? How do you define functional?

 

They can sort of help, but you know what's best for getting your bench press up???...Doing BENCH PRESS!
Working out is no different than everything in everyday life. You do something enough...You get better at it through experience, and better at it. In the case of working out your body grows, gets stronger, etc.
The thing about pushups is like they already mentioned at first it may help a little bit (if say you can only do 5-20) to get stronger. After you improve you get A LOT more, and then it becomes more endurance. I'm personally in the state of trying mainly to get bigger, and I don't hardly ever go above 5 reps right now on all my lifting. For cardio I box 4 times a week (about 45 minutes a day), run twice a week (windsprints), swim twice a week, jump rope 3x a week. I do this because I want to get big....but yet have nice, functionable, lean muscle, and be in good enough shape to use it. It's going very well for right now.

 

wow you wernet kidding when you said you was gonna be an *******.

 

What do you do that is different? I do my roadwork and I go to the gym and box, but I also lift weights with focus on olympic and powerlifts.

 

Ok, but do you bench? Are you looking to up your #'s on the bench or are you considered a curl ******? Cuz, your routine looks decent to me and as far as what I do, I post my routines and the search button will guide you to them. I have links to various sites that will help combat athletes such as we should be here.

 

I don't do curls.

I have two max effort days. One for Squat/Deadlift and the other for bench press (3x3). Both days I rotate two other lifts that compliment the main lift.

I then have two dynamic effort days with power cleans(8x2) and another with speed bench press(10x3).

 

:thinkI have no use for the bench. One armed pushups,weighted dips and plyo pushups are where I roll. But i digress, here is a link for you

http://www.maxcondition.com/page.php?96

 

Well put!!! And ****ing hilarious!!! Who lifts weights to get better at...lifting weights?!!!

 

That article didn't state that doing bench press was a bad thing and I don't think it said that bodyweight exercises are the only way to go. I do agree that a fighter should focus on fighting, but increasing maximal strength is a good thing to have.

 

:good Gotta keep my people here on the right track. I'm happy to help but will lay the hammer down on these over repeated threads.