Tips On Improve Your Push Ups

By Trevor Johnson


A great exercise and one of the all around best one for strengthen your core is the push up. In previous articles I have discussed the importance of strength building exercises as it relates to ageing. As we grow older we lose muscle, sorry but that may be a fact of life.

When we lose muscle mass we weaken not only our capability to lift a heavy object, but straightforward everyday things like pushing up from a chair or climbing stairs becomes a real chore. Additionally a weaken core increases the possibility of injury from falling and getting over an injury.

Here's where strength exercises come to your rescue. Irrespective of how old you are or flabby strength exercise is the real age defying drug. This is where push-ups come to the rescue. I really like push ups because they don't require any hardware, no gymnasium and there are that many variations that anybody with their doctor's OK can do them. Even if you can't do them, please find some strength building exercises you can do . Lifting soup cans for instance is a fantastic place to start.

If your into push ups like I am and attempting to max the amount of pushups you do you could be getting exasperated because you're stuck and cannot get beyond a specific number of reps. For instance let's assume you are up to 10 push ups but striving to get beyond that number.

Well never fear hears a tip that will blast up pass your plateau. It's called decreasing sets and here's how it operates. First set do only eight reps. Now rest for a minute and do half that number or four. O.K you have just done more pushups ( twelve ) than your prior workout, rest and do half that number or 2. Now your number is up to 14 and you have just elevated your pushups by 40%!

If you actually want to test yourself take another rest and starting at two increase each set until you reach eight or until failure. Wight trainers and weight lifters do this all the time. They call it pyramid sets and doing these will truly increase your numbers. Each session increase the amount of your first set. Say instead of doing 10 you do twelve, then the subsequent set is six and such like. This is a fairly intense workout so have a protein shake after and take a rest / recovery day or two and perhaps a walk or do some yoga.

I'm hoping this tip works for you. Eventually your actually boost your number of reps and of course grow muscle and fortify your core. Contemporary studies have even shown that strength exercises also change your genes to a younger person's profile! Pretty extraordinary and one more reason to incorporate strength exercises into your workout session.




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