You don’t need weights to build strength and tone your upper body muscles, but you do need to do proper bodyweight training. Pull-ups and dips are great moves, but when we asked Fit Athletic Club Certified Master Trainer Nicholas Arcata for the best bodyweight moves, especially for beginners, push-ups came out on top.
“Push-ups are a great bodyweight workout for beginners looking to build upper body strength,” says Arcata, but there’s more to push-ups than that. Check out all the benefits of the move below, as well as Arcata’s guide on how to perfectly do push-ups.
Nicholas Arcata is a certified master trainer at Fit Athletic Club in San Diego. He is a NASM certified personal trainer specializing in hypertrophy, athletic performance, strength training and conditioning.
