Best Advanced Push-up Exercise
Advanced Chest Exercise

This advanced push-up is one of the most challenging exercise to strengthen and tone the whole upper body and core. This chest exercise incorporates the whole body.

Muscles Involved:Pec Major, Pec Minor, Deltoids, Latissimus Dorsi, Abdominals, Glutes.

Description:

Start by positioning the arms of the machine to hover a few inches over the floor. Make sure to set the weight stack to the highest setting. Place yourself in a straight arm plank with your hands in the saddle handles of the machine. Arms are slightly wider than the shoulders, the body is straight and you are in a straight plank out to your toes.

Keeping your whole body tight, bend at the elbows and lower yourself toward the floor until your feel a slight stretch in the shoulders.

Press up to full extension at the elbows exhaling, returning to your start postion.

Be careful not to arch your back. This places extra pressure on your spine and the discs of it which can lead to low back problems. Remember to hold the abdominals tight by pulling the navel in toward the spine.

If you find it difficult to perform on your toes, bend and place the knees on the floor and start in the modified position.

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