How to Make Pushups Better (INSTANT PUMP!)

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Likely, you have done plenty of pushups in an effort to try and build your chest. It is the classic bodyweight chest exercise after all. That said, there are some major limitations to the exercise that can be greatly overcome by making a few key changes to how you perform them. In this video, I’m going to show you a pushup variation that makes pushups better. It is something that anybody is going to be able to do and more importantly, feel in their very next set. 60% off all AX programs - http://athleanx.com/x/505-workouts Subscribe to this channel here - http://bit.ly/2b0coMW To start, it helps to understand a bit of the natural pressing mechanics that are in place during a bench press. Your arms should never move in a straight line as you press the bar over your chest. Instead, you want to try and press up and back in an arc pattern if you want to follow the natural pressing arc that your body’s biomechanics dictates. You can see this same movement pattern built into the hammer bench press machine as well, and it’s there for a reason. You might think however that you cannot replicate this when doing pushups because your hands are fixed on the ground and you can’t follow an arc created by a machine that was designed to do this. Yes you can. You have to change your mindset though. Instead of thinking how your hands are going to move on a moveable machine you have to think how you are going to move your body on a set of fixed hands. It is possible and getting it

Published 2017-09-09 · Watch on YouTube ↗
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