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Summary: Watch and learn from our fitness expert how to do an upper body push up exercise in this free fitness video on upper body cross training exercises.

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How to Do a Push Up Upper Body Exercise

Hi, I'm Dr. Garrett Smith with Expert Village, The exercise we're going to go over now; one of the most basic upper body exercises there ever was. Loved by the Military, loved by a bunch of people, horizontal pushing, it is The Push Up. The standard push up if done correctly, which a lot of people don't quite get there. So, hands typically shoulder width, or just slightly wider. Fingers are straight ahead. Hands underneath the shoulders, up on the balls of the feet. So this is the starting position. You want your head and your spine all in one line. We don't want this-. And especially, with beginners we don't want this-. This is not a push up, Ok. Neither is this. We want the body straight. Standard for the regular push up, the floor push up, as opposed to the depth push up which we're going to go over in a second. Standard is nose and chest touch the floor at the same time, come back up to locked elbows. Ok, this is not a push up. We are not getting full extension. Also, this is not a push up; we're not coming all the way down. So, standards for the push up: body straight, come down. I'm just going to rest here for a second so that I can show you; elbows are not flared out. Elbows stay relatively close to the body, not brushing. At the bottom, you might be able to figure out your hand positioning, by your thumbs should be about bottom of the chest level. So again, that is a push up. All the way down, all the way up; body straight; great horizontal movement.

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