You can gain chest muscle this way but it is very inefficient and cumbersome. The most important aspects of being able to gain muscle are progressive overload and diet. If you cannot easily increase the amount of weight used, monitor it and do so on a regular basis then it's not efficient.
The exception is if you are a complete beginner, you might get some beginner gains perhaps.
You are better of with a set of dumbbells and a bench although you can do it on the floor. If you don't have the room and have enough money, the Isokinator Green Giant is another way.
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You can, there are other options as well, in using pushup progressions moving towards single arm pushups.
Basically whether you are doing bodyweight or barbell, you want to be in a similar rep range based on goals. If the goal is mass gain you want to be sort of 8-12 reps per set.
So increase the difficulty to be in that range.
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Yes, that will work. Its better to add weight than reps, assuming you can already do around 10. You'd be better off doing some form of bench press at a gym, but if for whatever reason you can't this is probably the best solution.
I recommend doing dumbbell exercises to get a bigger chest, and finish your workout with just normal pushups.
Useless, concentrate on doing more reps than increasing weight, or doing variations , incline/decline.
I gain chest muscle with push up @F_M
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