The pushup, how to get a Solid Chest and Strong Arms

Most people when trying to get in shape, are concerned with 3 general areas: arms, abs, and chest. Wouldn't it be great if you get all these areas targeted at once? That would save you ALOT of time. Well, here at The Dirt Cheap Home Gym we will show you how with a few simple exercises. The first is the pushup. Now, I know what you are thinking, "This guy is telling me to do pushups...that's not inisghtful at all". I do hate being cliche but these things work. The reason why you have not gotten results from them yet is because you are doing them wrong.  So how does one do pushups wrongs? Well if you are first starting out your experience is probably this. You just do them when you wake up or before you go to bed a couple sets until failure. You do this for a few weeks and notice some definition, but then the results begin to taper off. What happened? Well to put it bluntly, workouts like that are okay when you start off, but you need to kick it up a notch. Here I will give a sample routine that will take less than 30 minutes, will burn a ton fat, get your heart going, and develop muscle.
We will do what is called pyramid training.  I will explain this as we go.
Roll your arms and neck. Loosen up a little. You don't need to worry about stretching too much, however.
Beginner Work out:

1. Pushup Position
2. Do 10 pushups and hold your pushup position for 15 seconds
3. Then 9
4. Hold your pushup position for the same ammount of time
5. Keep doing one less, but take the same ammount of rest time
6. Go all the way down to one.
7. When you hit one, if you are still not tired, then start counting up with your pushups all the way back to 10.
8. Repeat till no more repetitions can be performed

This is a good starter workout, even if you can't do a lot of pushups, most people can at least do 10 ( I hope). The initial 10 is pretty easy, however as the workout progresses doing even 1 pushup can become difficult. The 15 seconds held in a pushup position (or sometimes called a plank) gets your abs working while giving your arms some, but not too much, rest. The shoulders are used as secondary muscles, although there are ways to manipulate the workout so your shoulders can get hit harder. The triceps and chest are mainly whats getting hit here. If done seriously, this should get your muscles exhausted. This workout can be modified by increasing the starting number, like starting at 25. You can also change the number of pushups you decrease/increase by in each set, like doing 30 pushups, then 25, then 20, and so on. Another trick, if you are really stiff, and having trouble warming up, or can't do many pushups, is starting your set with one rep and increase. If there is no time to warm up, the first few sets of several pushups will warm you up as you go. Doing higher reps of pushups is sometimes easier this way.

As a peer wisely pointed out, that even though this may be a beginner's workout, a beginner may not always be capable of 10 pushups. This is fine. All you need to do is tweak the work out to make it easier or harder depending on your ability. Start from the top of the pyramid and descend, start from the bottom and ascend, or increase/decrease the reps. A variation including arm raises is also included here, specifically under the chest, triceps, and shoulders section.

Anyways, that's it for now! Please comment on what you think of this routine. Do it as soon as you are done reading this, and tell me what you think.
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