Doing a Depth Push Up Upper Body Exercise

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Hi, I'm Dr. Garrett Smith with Expert Village. The exercise we're going to go over now, you need to be able to do a push up before you're going to do a depth push up. Now, depth push up, what we're going to do it in is we're just going to go deeper than a regular push up. That's why we're using something like these push up handles or if you know what they are, a set of parralets. Basically just elevated bars above the ground so that your body can go past where the floor would regularly be. In determining how to set up the parralets, or the push up handles. You want them, typically, the distance from your elbow to the end of your middle finger. It's a distance used a lot by gymnasts in determining how wide their parallel bars or the rings should be. So we just measure it real quick and easy, that's why they use it, get into a normal push up position. Again, body straight. And remember the whole reason for doing these is so you can go deeper. If you're not even doing push ups all the way to the floor yet, you certainly don't need to be doing depth push ups. The exercise looks like that. Body straight. Again, standard is touching the nose to the floor. We can't quite reach our chest, typically, to the floor in these. But we also don't want to be chicken necking, going like this, trying to reach the floor earlier than we should. Just like good posture would be when you're standing, abs are tight, gluts are tight, coming down and pushing up. I want to add something here for those of you who don't have dip bars, an exercise we went through in another section of this, in the pushing exercises. I was able to, simply by doing depth push ups and bench dips, two exercises that we talked about in these segments. I was able to keep my strength high enough that I was able to come in and do regular dips once I finally got the equipment. Between depth push ups and bench dips you can build plenty of pushing power for dips if you don't have the equipment. Again, depth push ups, a really great extended range of motion push up.

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