Hello everyone, hope your New Year is off to a GREAT start!
Thinking of adding Pushups to your NEW YEARS EXERCISE ROUTINE? You definately should! Both Men and Women can benefit from this old standby strength & conditioning movement. It’s a great movement to SCULPT AND STRENGTHEN the whole upper body especially the chest, shoulders and triceps.
Keep the following tips in mind when performing pushups:
1. Always keep your CORE muscles tight and don’t let your stomach sag down to the ground. This is commonly known as “jelly belly” syndrome.
2. IHHALE as you lower yourself to the floor, EXHALE as you extend your arms and press your body up away from the floor.
3. Use a smooth, steady pace as you press and lower your body through the full range of motion.
4. While using the STANDARD pushup (off the toes), you will use roughly two-thirds of your total body-weight. While using the MODIFIED format (off the knees), you will use roughly half of your body-weight.
After a few weeks of using the pushup 2-3 x per week, you should begin to notice significant posiive changes to your upper body physique. Best wishes in your training.
Coach Steve Loder, MES, CSCS
“Your Personal Health & Fitness Expert”
IDEA Elite Personal Fitness Trainer
www.newbeginning4all.com
PS – Cool photo attached to ths post, don’t you think? This was taken July 1, 2011, the day I kicked off my annual Pushups for Charity Campaign to benefit the Wounded Warriors Foundation which helps our wounded veterans.
