Doing a Knee Push Up Upper Body Exercise

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Hi, I'm Dr Garrett Smith with Expert Village. To begin our journey into horizontal pushing movements I'm going to start with a modified version of a push up. This modified version of the push up is called a push up from the knees; or a knee push up. And what it involves, you usually want to have something on the floor to make your knees comfortable. You're going to walk your arms out so that they're under your shoulders when your going to be in the bottom position. Feet are just relaxed in the back. And you're going to lower yourself down like a push up to the floor and push back up. Now, push ups; your body should be straight from the knees up. And the important thing is we want to keep the elbows by the sides. One mistake a lot of people make in their push ups is they have their elbows go really high and outside. That is really tough on your shoulders. What we prefer,a better movement, a stronger movement in the end, is where you elbows stay relatively close to your sides as you go down. The depth on these, that we want to go down to is where your nose and your chest touch the floor at the some time. So what one push up looks like without stopping is-, Ok. We come all the way up to straight arms. Elbows lock. So again, you want to try to get the body as straight as possible from the shoulders down to the knees. Squeezing your gluts can help this process. And again, elbows stay close to sides. So its pretty important to have some padding under your knees so comfortable when you're doing your exercise. These knee push ups are not an end point in exercise; they're a build up exercise to some of the more advanced push ups. Or even just the regular push ups that we're going to do.

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