Excellent question!
Push-ups are a question of leverage and angle! To make them easier you can do one of two things:
Shorten the lever - basically instead of doing push-ups on your feet, you do them on your knees. This will make a very big difference to how easy they feel.
For a less drastic change... the other thing is angle - if you can use a box or a bench to make your hands a bit higher than your feet, you should feel that that is another way to make the push-ups feel a little bit easier, and hopefully as you improve, you can find things to put your hands on that are lower and lower until your hands are on the floor, level with your feet, again!
Then from there, why not raise your feet instead of your hands - this will make the push-ups harder and put more load onto your small shoulder muscles instead of the big muscles in your chest!
Once you can do more than about 12 reps of any exercise, it's time to find a way to make it a little bit harder again (or add some weight to the bar/dumbbell for those without any imagination! Haha)
🤔Wow, never really thought of this.
Never thought putting your hands in a position higher than your legs will make it easier. In fact I always thought it made it more difficult.
I think I will have to try that one first and the moment I get it I will do the harder one. My main aim is to be fit, am not interested in having big muscles.
Well as you can see I don't have big muscles! I think Calisthenics lends itself towards people who want to be lean and strong compared to their bodyweight - so you land up looking like more of a gymnast or rock-climber than a bodybuilder.