9 reasons Push-Ups are the best exercises for your tummy, arms

By Namita S Kalla | April 10, 2025

9 reasons Push-Ups are the best exercises for your tummy, arms

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Push-ups require core engagement to stabilise your body, strengthening the abs, obliques, and lower back, leading to a firm, flat tummy

Stabilise your body

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By promoting body alignment, push-ups help improve posture, which can reduce belly bulge and create a more toned, lean stomach

Reduce belly bulge

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Push-ups burn calories, helping to create a calorie deficit, which aids fat loss and contributes to a flatter tummy over time

Aids fat loss

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Push-ups work multiple muscle groups, boosting metabolism and encouraging overall fat loss, including in the abdominal 

Toned tummy

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Push-ups activate the transverse abdominis, a deep abdominal muscle, which tightens and flattens the stomach

Tightens the stomach

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Push-ups require core stabilisation, engaging the abs and lower back muscles, which strengthens and firms the stomach muscles

Strengthens muscles

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Push-ups stretch and strengthen muscles, improving flexibility and balance, which contributes to a toned, leaner body

Improves flexibility

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Push-ups target large muscle groups, increasing calorie burn, promoting fat loss, which reduces belly fat, flatten the stomach

Fat loss

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Push-ups increase muscle mass, boosting metabolism and aiding fat loss, which helps reduce belly fat

Better metabolism

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