Learn how to do wide push ups. Presented by Real Jock Gay Fitness Health & Life.
Benefits
The push-up is endlessly versatile, and can be modified to meet almost any of your upper body needs. Here, a slight modification in position will redirect the push-up from focusing on the chest to targeting your lats—although, like all push-ups, it will still work your core and chest.
Muscles Worked
Back (lats), Chest, Core
Starting Position
Take a push-up, or plank, position on the floor, with arms extended, hands under shoulders, legs straight, hips flat, and center engaged. Now, move your hands to the side a few inches, such that your hands are wider than your shoulders.
Exercise
1. From the starting position, lower your chest toward the floor in a push-up, keeping your center engaged so that your hips neither droop nor pike upward. As you lower your chest, keep your back broad even as you bring your shoulder blades together. Try to develop the feeling that you are suspended from above, through your shoulder blades, rather than pushing against your hands. Come all the way down, until your chin nearly touches the floor.
2. From the bottom of your push-up, press back up to the starting position, keeping your body in a straight line throughout.
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