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

push up

wall push-up with hands at shoulder height, elbows bend to bring chest toward wall while maintaining chin tuck

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

How it is done

Kneel, move forward on the hands such that wrist under the shoulders and toes on the floor while knees off the floor. Tightening the core, bend elbows and lower the body towards the floor such that knees, hip and trunk are in one line. Push the body up and repeat.

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

The plan starts with an assessment.