One of the best exercises you can add to your workout is the PUSH-UP. Considering it is such an easy exercise to do, the Push-ups delivers a real punch to your body’s health. For as much as it can give you the great physique most of us are looking for, they provide a very unique way of strengthening our bodies and targeting areas that are commonly weak. However, there are many people that find them too hard to do, and others that find it too easy to do and very boring. This is where it is handy to have a series of regressions and progressions in your toolkit to find the right type of push up for your body. In this article, I am going to take you through 10 variations of the push-up starting with the easiest version right up to the most difficult. This will provide you with a map of how to gradually progress your stability, strength, and power with this movement. You will also have several ways to mix up your workouts to keep your body challenged and training fun and exciting.
10 Best Body-weight Exercises & 3 Killer Workouts To Do At Home
A lot of you may be wondering, are body-weight workouts enough for me to get stronger and see results? Many people underestimate the benefits body-weight exercises provide and limit their thinking to only one or two exercises, when there is literally hundreds of amazing varieties you could use. The best thing about these exercises is you are not limited with time and you need no equipment meaning you can get a great workout in almost anywhere! This can be a real game-changer for the person who travels a lot, or someone unable to get to the gym. These exercises are often prescribed by physical therapists and rehabilitation trainers to people with injury for they are excellent choices for improving stability of joints in a closed kinetic chain. And many of the advanced exercises like plyometric training are used by many elite sporting athletes for improving strength and power. In this article we will explain everything you need to know about body-weight exercises and provide you with several simple workouts for general muscle toning and losing fat no matter what level of fitness you think you are at!
6 Strengthening Exercises To Correct A Winged Scapula
The winged scapula is one of the most common postural faults we see today. And even though we are talking about winged scapula in this article the information and exercises provided will relate to ALL shoulder injuries. The term winged scapula gets its name from its appearance, a wing-like resemblance, due to the medial border of the scapula sticking straight out from the back. As I mentioned at the start this is a postural fault that can greatly affect a person’s ability to lift, pull, and push weighty objects and can cause pain and discomfort with simple daily activities such as taking your shirt off or playing a sport. When pain sets in people resort to the treatment of trigger point massage, stretching, and acupuncture which all may help in some way but the real answer lies in providing stability. Why? The shoulder is such an amazing joint in that it has an incredible amount of mobility and is able to perform some incredibly powerful and dynamic movements like serving in tennis or simply throwing a ball. But this awesome mobility comes at a cost, as the stability of the shoulder can be very easily compromised. And when this happens is when injury and pain takes over. If we lose that stability, we get some extra mobility of the humeral head within the joint, and that begins to pinch some of the structures around it and you eventually end up with common postural problems like the winged scapula that progress to much worse problems such as injuries like a shoulder impingement or rotator cuff tears. In this article, we will provide you with some of the most effective and simple to do stability exercises that you can begin using to improve your posture and get your shoulder movement back, without pain and compensation.
15 Best Exercises For Developing Upper Body Pushing Strength & Power
One of the hardest movements to really master and develop strength with is the PUSHING ACTION. The pushing action is very important for use in daily life and a weakness with pushing movement is linked to many of the shoulder and neck problems many people suffer with. More specifically this movement is much more difficult for most females as they find it very hard to develop strength with their upper body due to joint laxity, lack of testosterone, and this leaves the shoulders more vulnerable to injury. Most of the exercises people think of are bench press, push-ups, and shoulder press. While these exercises may develop the strength they do come with risks that can cause a lot of problems for the neck and shoulder, and with some people they are too difficult to do. True pushing movement patterns are not limited to the upper body, as the trunk and legs play pivotal roles in creating optimal positioning, stability and timing to execute this movement efficiently. This is the mistake so many people make who limit their training to body building exercises that eliminate the use of the legs. There are better ways to achieve strength without these risks which is what I will explain in this breakdown of the best 15 exercises.