INTERESTING: Push-ups just as good as bench presses for strength building.

Of course you can train harder by doing bench presses than push-ups. The researchers got [a]round this by making the push-ups heavier for the students by using a resistance band. This meant that the subjects in the push-up group did just as heavy sets, and the same number of reps, as the students in the bench-press group.

The researchers measured the electrical activity in the students’ chest and shoulder muscles, so that they knew for sure that the push-up and the bench-press trainings were equally heavy.