Cant seem to build much chest strength!! Any advice?

Simbii95

Hey everyone hope you all are doing well! Ive been on a weight loss journey and have progressed well so far. The issue is I'm having a very hard time building any strength in my chest. Particularly when it comes to doing pushups. Ive gone from berg able to do none to about 12. I seem to be stuck on that number. Can anyone advise how to build better chest strength and all. I don't have access to a gym or weights or anything so im pretty much reliant on body weight. Thanks in advance!!

Irfan_Ali

I started by doing 10 pushups in the morning and then 10 in the evening, everyday without fail

Start with the knee variation if its difficult

As time goes on you'll definitely be able to do more than 10 in any one session and most definitely more than twice day

Currently I'm at 25 push ups, 5 times a day, after 3 months

Keep consistent and your chest strength and size will increase before you know it

Then you can start adding variations to make it more of a complete chest workout

All the best

DevilsFan1

The key is volume. You Like Irfan_Ali says, you should break your sets up during the day to give yourself time to recover. It's easy to go to failure on BW exercises and quite difficult to recover quickly. Try to do multiple sets throughout the day. Try to do one more than the day before. You don't need to go to failure on every set.

djaxon1

It takes time .
Maybe as stated above, you are working to failure . Try them leaning against a wall or furniture , maybe on knees also. This should allow you to do 30, 40+ , keep uping the numbers and then start to scale them up.
Find ideas off youtube - I like this guys ways -
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PdT0uAg7wdw
Carry on.

RockingWithLJ

What kind of push ups? Are you doing different variations of push-ups?

Chieflrg

Increase the volume and I would break them up. We want the overload of doing them with a very small rest period.