How To Do Pushups & The 2 Possible Reasons Why You Can’t Do A Pushup
How To Do a Pushup
To do a push-up you are going to get on the floor on all fours, positioning your hands slightly wider than your shoulders.
Don’t lock out the elbows; keep them slightly bent. Extend your legs back so you are balanced on your hands and toes, your feet hip-width apart.
Once in this position, here is how you will do a push-up.
(Here is a video in case you prefer video format)
Pushup Technique – Activate, breath , push
- Contract your abs and tighten your core by pulling your belly button toward your spine.
- Inhale as you slowly bend your elbows and lower yourself to the floor, until your elbows are at a 90-degree angle.
- Exhale while contracting your chest muscles and pushing back up through your hands, returning to the start position.
Pushup Benefits
A 2019 study also found that people who can do 40 push-ups have fewer cardiovascular disease events than those who cannot complete 10 push-ups(1)
Many muscles are activated during pushups for example, the upper body muscles that come into play in the push-up are the deltoids of the shoulders, the pectoral muscles of the chest, the triceps and biceps of the upper arm, and the gluteal or hip muscles, and the erector spinae of the back.
Pushup is a full body exercise. Pushup can be done from anywhere. Heart health,full body muscle activating exercise is the 2 reasons why I love pushups a lot.
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