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table push up - beginner Upper Body exercise
  • Upper Body
  • beginner

table push up

standing push-up against table with elbows wide, chest lowering toward surface while maintaining chin tuck.

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

How it is done

Stand facing a table, rest the both hands on the table, keeping elbow bent and lean on the table. 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.