Started doing push ups about 6 months ago. Felt good, starting

Your lats? Yeah you should feel those during pushups.

>>41095001
But it's really tight and only after so few. When I first started I never felt it, I was able to 50 at time before I started to feel anything. Then this breathing thing (which is probably in my head because I get panic attacks from time to time) but sometimes it does feel like my throat tightens up (which definitely isn't in my head).

>>41095001
That's his serratus anterior

>>41094974
You're working your serratuses. It's a muscle group like any other, no worries. Maybe you left them idle for too long and now they're in dyel mode.

>>41095367
So I should just keep going with it until it gets better?

>>41095518
Yeah.
If it gets worse, it might be that you're doing something wrong.
I remember how my inner thighs were hurting when I first started squatting with weights, but it went away after 2 weeks.

>>41095560
Thank you Jesus

>>41095518
>>41095367

The serrratus muscles are often negleted too much IMO. They really help fill out your front silhouette, they look gnarly at low bf too. Weighted push ups and pullovers really help get them looking good. It also great that strong serratus helps witth shoulder health.

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not op, but doing the ab wheel my lower ab hurts very badly, is that normal?

>>41095572
>>41095833
Yep.
The serratus muscles can also be trained with dips.
For this, most of your pushing needs to be done from the end of the palm and you need to push yourself as high out from your shoulders and lats as possible on the top end of the movement.

Useful for handstands.