Many people under-estimate the power that push-ups wield in building chest and shoulders strength and chest muscles. On the surface, push-ups are plain and virtually uninteresting: up down, up down, up down — that is it. Nonetheless most of the people, outside of physical fitness fans, only know about the military-style push-ups that they endured in their Phys Ed class back in high school . Just as there’s more than a method to climb a mountain and more than a technique to skin a kitty — there is more than a technique to do a push-up.