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Pushing Movement Pattern for Developing the Chest and Shoulders

Pushing movements and exercises

Generally pushing is divided into 2 sections, vertical pushing and horizontal pushing.

Vertical pushing includes all overhead movements eg. the overhead press and mostly targets the shoulder muscles. Horizontal pushing would include the push up and engages predominately the chest muscles.

It is important to realise that no muscle works alone when pushing, the shoulders, core and lats are also used during the push up exercise for example.

Here are a list of articles on pushing exercises:

And these are pushing workouts:

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