The Easiest and Hardest Workout
No bars, plates or cables. No bands. No ropes. No special skills. No platforms. No equipment needed. Just a floor and desire.
The easiest and hardest workout is right underfoot. Your floor is the scene for the Push-up. You’ve been doing them ever since grade school. Why did you stop? Too easy? Too boring? Not sophisticated enough?
Not only do you work your upper body, but push-ups are an incredible source for developing strength in the core. If you do between 100 and 200 push-ups a day - your muscular conditioning and core will be dramatically improved. If you do your push-ups in the morning, it will jump start your metabolism.
Every class my students do one of three types of general push-up workouts as part of their warm-up.
We perform five types of footwork interspersed with sets of various push-ups and abdominals. We do four sets of 25 push-ups at a time and 30 to 50 abs. The students go at their own pace.
Other classes we’ll do between 50 and 100 at a clip, generally done by my count. We will follow that up with two sets of 50 repetitions of abdominals.
Then there are classes that we do only 20 push-ups. However, this is done by my count and may take almost two minutes to complete. We stop at various points in the push-up and hold. These are all done on the first two (large) knuckles.
There are other workouts where we do a rotation of jumping rope, push-ups and abs as well. It’s one of the five workouts on one of my workout DVDs. The point is doing push-ups is relatively easy, but at the same time hard, because you have to remain consistent. Doing a substantial amount of push-ups on a regular basis takes concentration and commitment because it can get boring. I’ve found that mixing it up with different types of push-ups and performing them in a variety of manners will help ease the boredom and will also work your muscles in a different way.
Below you will find a youtube link various types of push-ups. They are as follows:
Knuckle, Wide, Triangle, Palm Heel, Dive Bombers, Clap, Back Bridge, Extended, Tiger, Wall, Reverse, Knife Edge, Finger Tip, Inverted, Straight Arm, Incline, Decline, Intight Knuckle & Plyometric In & Out Knuckle.
Good luck with your training and remember that Victory Favors the Prepared!
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