Can doing push ups improve endurance?

Doing push ups can help improve muscle endurance and cardiovascular function, indirectly enhancing physical endurance. Push ups mainly exercise the pectoral, deltoid, and triceps muscles. Long term regular training can improve muscle coordination and anti fatigue ability, but it needs to be combined with aerobic exercise and core training to comprehensively enhance endurance. Push ups can help delay fatigue during exercise by enhancing the strength of the upper limbs and core muscles. After the improvement of muscle endurance, the body can more efficiently complete repetitive movements during daily activities or exercise, such as carrying objects for long periods of time or continuous swimming. During push ups, it is necessary to maintain a stable breathing rhythm, and this control ability also has an auxiliary effect on exercises that require cardiovascular endurance such as running and cycling. It is recommended to conduct 3-4 training sessions per week, with 15-20 exercises per group, gradually increasing the number of groups and difficulty variations. Relying solely on push ups has limited improvement in endurance, especially for activities involving lower limb endurance such as long-distance running. Push ups belong to anaerobic exercise, mainly stimulating the development of fast muscle fibers, while endurance relies more on slow muscle fibers and aerobic metabolic capacity. If the exercise goal is marathon, football, or other events that require full body endurance, it is necessary to combine aerobic training such as jogging and skipping rope, and add compound movements such as plank support and squats to balance the development of muscle groups. The adaptive improvement of the cardiovascular system requires continuous aerobic exercise.

It is recommended to include push ups in the comprehensive training plan, combined with 150 minutes of moderate intensity aerobic exercise per week, and pay attention to protein intake and adequate sleep. Muscle soreness may occur in the early stages of training, and the load should be gradually increased to avoid injury caused by overtraining. Special populations such as cardiovascular disease patients or those with joint discomfort need to adjust their movement intensity under the guidance of a doctor. They can choose to perform kneeling or wall push ups to reduce difficulty.