Mastering the Push-Up

WHY PUSHUPS ARE SO HARD?

PUSHUPS can be challenging because they require you to lift a significant portion of your body weight (60-75 percent) of your overall mass using your chest, shoulders and triceps,

Most people ignore this, but a proper form is of the outmost importance and maintaining a straight-line from the head to the heels is absolute key in the workout. But here are some tips to get your pushups right on track.

Warming up: A lot of us shun this but warming is a form of muscle relief exercise that prepares the body for the intense workout laid out for the day. Some believe in going straight to the workout, others believe in normal stretches but that is not true. Why? Warming up is never the same as stretching and this is because warming up Involves activities that get the heart pumping, which gives the body and mind the alertness it needs to prepare for the workout. Whereas, stretching is the cool down mobility exercise after the workout. Do not confuse this because doing arm circles whilles running would prove more effective than doing arm stretches after getting up from bed.

Proper form and technique: It is hard to get a pushup right when the elbows flare out. When the push motion is initiated with flared elbows, the focus shifts from the chest which should be the primary target to the shoulders causing injuries to the elbow joints as well. A proper way is to get the elbows tucked in at a 45-degree angle liha a jet wing. This puts the pressure on the primary target Le. the chest and the supporting muscle groups. This makes it easier for the elbow joints when the push mosion is done.

Mowe, it is important to those pussus are not for working one muscle group üks Isolation exercises do. It is a compound cercise that focus on 75 percent on the muscle you are worting on, and the rest is its the supporting muscle groups. Everybody part plays a role in the push motion and therefore do not be said if you're performing & regtar pushup and your shoulders an atau feeling the pressure with your chest, The wortout is designed in way to recruit all muscle groupe together in building not only the chest but ther

Do not rush with your pushups to create a rhythes for your workout to succeed. We're not looking for reps, we're looking for gains, Stay strong and build a superhuman physique with your puash workouts


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