Floor To Chest Push Up

This resistance band chest exercise is also a perfect demonstration of the band s matching resistance profile when you lower toward the floor the band gains more slack and when you push up.
Floor to chest push up. Inhaling bend your arms to lower your body and. The arms should be fully extended with the hands directly underneath the shoulder joint. Learning proper floor push up form is easy with the step by step floor push up instructions floor push up tips and the instructional floor push up technique video on this page. Lower yourself until your chest almost touches the floor eccentric phase and then have your friend remove the weight or some of it before you push back up concentric phase.
This is your starting position. To perform the push up start at the top of the plank position with the back flat. Push yourself up so that your arms are nearly extended and your torso and legs are off the floor. Press your toes against the floor and place your hands flat on the ground shoulder width apart fingers extended forward.
How to do push up. In a regular push up the chest is normally closed or down. Floor push up is a calisthenics exercise that primarily targets the chest and to a lesser degree also targets the abs lower back middle back shoulders and triceps. This open chest pressing is done by not only taking your hands off the floor in the start position but pulling your arms back as if you were doing a row.