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wall push up with pillow - beginner Upper Body exercise
  • Upper Body
  • beginner

wall push up with pillow

standing wall push up with pillow support, maintaining chin tuck while bending elbows to bring chest toward wall

Starting position
standing
Joints
shoulder, elbow
Muscles
triceps, anterior deltoid, pectoralis major, serratus anterior
Equipment
pillow, wall
Goal
postural correction, stability
Type
isotonic concentric, isotonic eccentric

How it is done

Stand facing the wall, place 1 pillow on the wall by elevate the arms by 90 degree and rest the both hands on the pillows keeping elbow straight and lean on the wall. Bend the elbows away from each other and try to reach the chest to the table with maintaing th chin tuck, straighten the elbow to back to starting position and repeat.

Nothing here is a prescription. Your physiotherapist decides which of these are yours, and when.

The plan starts with an assessment.