The different types of push ups give different results when it comes to working the muscles of your body. For example the triceps push up work towards building your triceps and you have to keep your arms close together when doing it. If you want to work the muscles of the chest, you will have to keep the arms far apart and then do the push ups. So, it all depends on what muscle you want to build. But it goes without saying that push ups work towards mainly developing the pectoral muscles and triceps but they also help to build the shoulder and back muscles.

5 Facts about Push Ups:
Here are 5 facts about push ups that you may not know.

1. Push ups can be done by anyone at any level of fitness
2. Push ups are a compound exercise that works the chest muscles, shoulder muscles, triceps, back muscles, legs and abs.
3. The most push ups in one hour were done by Paddy Doyle of the UK in 2007. He completed 1,940 push ups in an hour.
4. Push ups can be either used to check the fitness level of a person or it can be used to mete out a mild form of physical punishment.
5. There are many variations of push ups and some of the most popular ones are table top push ups, bent knee push ups and stability ball push ups.

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