Doing a T-Push Up Upper Body Exercise

Video Transcript

"The exercise we're about to do now is called a T-push up. It expands upon a regular push up and combines it with a side plank, which is something that we covered in the core section of our exercises. Basics on it, everything is like a normal push up until we're done with one. We get into normal push up position, head's in line, body's straight, abs are tight, gluts tight, we touch the ground, come up, then we go up into a side plank, come down, and up again, and we just keep repeating. Technically, this will complete my second rep. That's the T-push up. The T comes from, obviously, my position in the side plank with my arms outstretched. Why do we want to do this? It strengthens our shoulders in more planes than just the normal push up. If you look at just one shoulder, when I go down and do the push up, this shoulder rotates open, has to stabilize me here and then has to support me coming down into another push up. Rotational stability is extremely important int he shoulders, and by training movements like that, we're training that rotational stability. Same word as used in a rotator cuff. We want to do movements that incorporate rotation and the T-push up is a great one to do that. It also gets the side plank working there too, you're killing two birds with one stone. And that's the T-push up."