Professional athletes do it. The U.S. military swears by it. They all know the secret to building a stronger, more muscular chest. Do you want to know their secret? The answer is simple.

Get the ultimate chest by doing a workout that is simple and requires no weights. The exercise that professional athletes and the U.S. military use are push-ups.

So many people flock to the gym and gather around the free weights and weight lifting machines as a ritual way of building and enhancing their chest muscles. But why would you choose to do this to yourself when all you have to do is use your own body weight to strengthen your upper body? So put those free weights away and walk away from the machinery. We’re going to teach you how to build your upper body without the use of either.

What makes push-ups the ultimate exercise used to build chest muscles? The answer is very basic. Push-ups are a superior chest exercise; more so than the use of free weights. They are performed by athletes that need speed and power to perform their sport.

Push-ups force the upper body to build stamina. They increase a person’s speed and give them strength. Here is an example of how powerful a push-up can be. Say a professional boxer spends their workout session doing bench presses with heavy weights.

That boxer may be good for one or two strong punches during the match. But if they were to replace their bench presses with repetitions of push-ups they’d really pack some powerful punches. Plus, their stamina and endurance will have increased which will give them the energy to go the full twelve rounds.

Some people will disagree with what is being said in this article. They will say that you need heavy weights to build a strong chest and that you can’t get the same results by lifting your own weight.

This is true to some point. If you compare a heavy weight lifting routine to do only 50 push-ups a day then this is the case. But, if you can get yourself up to 500 push-ups a day then the tables are turned.

Push-ups may not bulk you up to a massive stature but they will make you stronger, enhance your muscles and tone your chest.

Bench presses target a select group of muscles. Push-ups encourage every muscle group from the chest and arms to the abdominal muscles and legs to work together through stabilization.