hey guys its Deanna from paleo hacks com and today we're going to learn how to do a perfect pushup so in order to get into our perfect pushup we need to get into a perfect plank you want your hands directly underneath your shoulders place the weight in between your fingers and your knuckles to take some pressure off of your wrists engage your abdominals pulling your belly button towards your nose and then step one foot back at a time into a perfect plank make sure that your hips aren't too high and get ready to lower into your push up for a triceps I'll push up you're going to lower down keeping your elbows in by your waistline grazing the sides of your body press back up and when you press up you want the inside of your elbow pressing slightly forward and make sure you don't walk out the arms at the top lower back down and repeat for 10 to 15 repetitions mistake number one is letting your hips sag too low so when your hips tag you're not engaging your core so to engage your core you want to pull your belly button towards your nose this is going to help lengthen your lower back and take a lot of stress out of that lower back and really engage those abdominals mistake number two is having your hips too high so just the opposite of letting those hips sag if your hips are too high you're also not going to work those abdominals so to get in the right position again you want to engage those abdominal muscles and this time squeeze your glutes this is going to help lower your hips and you want your hips just lower than your shoulders mistake number three is having your arms too far forward during your push-ups so I've seen this a lot of times at the gyms make sure you pull your hands directly underneath your shoulders if they're a little bit too far forward of you you're not going to be able to engage your chest muscles and you'll put a little bit of stress on those shoulders and mistake number four is letting your elbows flare out to the side so again that's going to put some stress on your shoulders and also on your elbows so if you're doing a tricep style push-up make sure you have your elbows in close by your waistline they should graze just the sides of your body and if you're doing a wide push up your hand should be wider than shoulder width apart and your elbow should be bent at about 90 degrees mistake number five is straining your neck so as you're doing your push-up you want to look about one foot in front of you during your plank and as you go down into your push-up keep gazing at that same position you want to make sure that the back of your neck isn't too far up and that you're just gazing down towards the floor mistake number six is not going low enough into your pushup if you don't go low enough into your pushup you're not going to be engaging those chest muscles also make sure you don't go too low and really stress out the shoulders for more workout tips check out paleo hacks com you .
Video Description:
We know. This isn’t the first time that you’ve heard that pushups are one of the most effective upper body exercises, and it certainly won’t be the last. Today, we’ll not only show you how to do the perfect pushup, but also the biggest mistakes to avoid.
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