i’ve been doing pushups while having my feet on a chair for quite a while, but is it really an advantage doing them this way?
cos i H A T E doing them this way, its really hard to keep your balance!
Do you mean with your feet on a chair and your hands on the ground?
That’s like doing incline bench press, the emphasis is placed on your front deltoids and upper pecs (don’t flame me, i know there’s technically no difference between “pecs” and “upper pecs”, but BB’ers swear by it.)
For that reason, they are harder than nomral pushups, which are equivalent to a slight decline bench.
There is really no reason to do them with you feet up higher. Your shoulders will fatigue before your pecs if you do this, so your pecs are being deprived of the workout they could be getting. My suggestion is to cut them out all together and do regular pushups, but to each their own.
Good luck,
Iron
Lately, I’ve ocassionally enjoyed cutting a benchpress day out of my lifting routine, and replacing it with what I call “wieghted pushups” (catchy huh?).
This is what you do. Take a backpack that’s large enough to put some heavy wieghts in. Use less than you can bench 'cause these are alot harder and put stress on your low-back and abs.
Put on the 'pack, settle into pushup position with the wieght resting between your shoulderblades and go the same reps and sets you normally use for your bench. Something you’ll love to hate! 
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“(don’t flame me, i know there’s technically no difference between “pecs” and “upper pecs”, but BB’ers swear by it.)”
when i first did bench pressing, id bring the bar down to the bottom of my pec line, instead of a bit above. now, ive got no upper pecs at all - fact. it looks like i have tits. very small tits, but yeah.
ged,
In BB’ing, upper pecs and lower pecs are worked by doing incline bench and decline bench, respectively. It has to do with the angle that muscle is worked. Flat bench won’t emphasize upper or lower, regardless of where you lower the bar to. The only thing changing where the bar is lowered to can do is mess up your joints.
Iron
u calling me a liar? 
lol. seriously tho, i would have no reason to doubt you, except that i know that i was lowering the bar too low, and i know that i have no upper pecs (ive compared to my friends, who bench less than me but have more muscle just below the collarbone)
hmm… i suppose i could of been doing dumbbell flyes (the only other pec exercise i do) with my arms not 90 degrees out from my body? would that of done it?
ged, dude it could be genetics. Look at Franco Columbu. This guy had this huge line that seperated his upper pecs from his lower pecs. You can’t train for that. You can help the upper pecs become more pronounced, but you can’t force your pecs to get a line like that. His was genetic. You have to work with what you have.
How much do you weigh? How tall are you? What bf%? Chances are you haven’t been training your pecs long enough/correctly for them to be massive, much less have upper pec growth. But if you want upper pecs to be targeted, I would suggest incline bench and incline dumbell flies.
However, if you are a freak like me, you can’t do incline bench. Why can’t I do it? Because it works 99.9% my delts and .1% my chest. Something with the way my body is built causes my shoulders to overcompensate on every lift I do. I get a HUGE pump in my shoulders from flat bench even. I never do seperate shoulder training, and my delts (all three heads) are strong as hell, and also very big. It’s the weirdest thing I tell you. Anyway, all my chest work comes from flat bench, because to my body, there is no difference between incline bench and military press. But most likely you are different. Good luck.
Iron
nothing wrong with big delts. have you tried doing a lot of decline for pecs? ive heard that that decreases delt use a lot.
yeah im gonna replace normal benching with incline bench when i start working out at home, but i cant at the school gym, they dont have incline benchpress.
i was just backing up your statement that it is possible to emphasise one part of pecs when training.
(and ive been benching for about a year - no i dont have massive pecs at all, far from it - but i do have a noticeable lack of upper)
but anyway
cya
Iron,
Franco Columbo was huge! I have a picture of him deadlifting more weight than I’d have the energy to take off the rack and put on the bar! BTW, he is training a heavyweight BJJ/NHB guy now too.
On the topic of deadlifting power, have you ever trained with any Westside Barbell guys or bought their tapes? I’m hitting the iron again (not you) and was seriously thinking about getting their new seminar series.
Ford, I’ve never done anything with the Westside Barbell guys. I’ve heard them mentioned a lot, and I think I went to their website once but I don’t remember it.
What are their tapes about?
Iron
While we’re on the subject of inclined pushups, I just bought a pair of those push up handles. I have an injured/healing wrist and was told that these would help (since I also have an injured hand and can’t do knuckle push ups for a while).
My wrist is actually feeling better (after a week of intermittent workouts). Anyone else have these, and if so, do you have a varied routine with them. So far, I only do them with my fists parallel to my body, perpendicular to my body and behind me (like a crab-walk).
Robin
Surrender yourself to nature and be all that you are.
Iron,
It’s just a seminar that covers all their methods for strength gain. (cycling weights, lifts, sets, intensity, ancillary exercises, etc) They are hands down the best powerlifting gym in the USA and one of the best in the world. They have 2 guys squatting over 1,000 lbs, 8 squatting over 900 lbs, and 23 squatting over 800 lbs. Not only that but their top two benchers are 690 lbs and 688 lbs! Nuts! They’ve pretty much broken down strength gain into a very scientific method that eeks out every last ounce of strength potential in your body. Good stuff. 
Robin,
I got some of those handles for the same reason you did. For some reason, they actually hurt my wrist rather than helping. What finally did the trick was a inline skating wrist protector. (the kind with the palm protector and plastic splints)