Push Up Workout

Video Transcript

"Push up is a good way to integrate all muscles of the upper body, core body works as unit. And a good way to find your push up position is to come into plank as it's commonly called in Pilates or yoga with the hands right underneath the shoulders. Feet would be ideally hip with the part. Now first modification is to come down with your weight in front of the knees not on the knee joint but slightly forward but you still got a good wide stable base with your wrist underneath your shoulders. Nice, neutral cervical spine in line with the spine. Now the key here is not to let the hips drop or to create that barking seal action by lifting and arching. So you want to keep one long, long line of energy. So from plank to here and then we contract and release with a slight bend in the elbow when we come back up, we don't want to lock that out. So that's level one, inhale and exhale. You got to keep breathing to get that oxygen into the working muscle. Level two, inhale and exhale. If you take your hands a little wider you're going to get more chest, if you have them in a little closer but never inside the shoulder you're going to work more tricep. Another way to advance that is to work with one leg in the air. So you got three levels to choose from but just make sure you get your basic, then your intermediate before you do advanced. In working with your whole body weight it's a great functional way to do upper body exercising."