Sexy Shoulders: Incline Push Ups Video

Incline push ups are a great way to build and tone chest and shoulder muscle groups. Learn how to get sexy shoulders by performing incline push ups properly from a certified trainer in this workout video.

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Use incline
Begin with knees
Keep posture straight
Use different levels

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Keith Irace has been a certified trainer for 16 years. He is currently the regional group fitness manager for Equinox Fitness Clubs in southern California and a trainer for iTRAIN.com is your own "Hollywood personal trainer right in your pocket." Each audio and video workout consists of an elite Hollywood Trainer or World Champion Athlete mixed with original music to satisfy your workout needs. iTRAIN provides more than 275 workouts in its library ranging from treadmill to elliptical, cycling, strength training, and many more.

Hi. I'm Keith Irace, and welcome to Sexy Shoulders. Today's move is an inclined pushup, and you can do this on any surface that will get you up off the ground a little bit. So, you can do it on a step, you can do it on a stair at home, really easy to modify if you need to. I'm going to teach you three levels, so you pick what's appropriate for you and do what you can. Let's start off by taking our hands down to our elevated step. Your hands a just a tiny bit wider than your shoulders, and I'm going to give you level 1 first which means that we're going to start with a knee pushup. That means your heels are up towards your seat, your knees are on the floor, you lower the body all the way to the step and you push away. So, you push that step away as if you were pushing a door closed. You're down and you squeeze up. You're down and you squeeze up. Now, level 2 of this same move is to roll up and roll your toes under. Make sure that your body is a pretty straight line from heel to head and we drop down and push. [DEMONSTRATION] Now, it's really important with your pushups to get a nice full range of motion. That means your chest just about touches the bench each time you come down. For my advanced exercisers, here's the good option for you. You're going to go lift and down. So, you just alternate that leg lift as you drop into your pushup. Let's do four more in this set. Okay. Here's four and three and two and one. Good. I want you to just gently drop down onto your knees, shake your wrist out. That's a lot of wrist flexion. Let the wrist go because guess what? We're doing one more set. Yes, we are. Let's go. Hands outside the shoulders, roll into your option, choose the one that you like. Let's go. Low and push. So, now we're going to really think of that force of pushing that door closed. Down. Push the floor away. Down, push. Advanced exercisers, you know your option. Down and lift and lift. What do you think? Eight more? Let's go for eight. Seven, push. Six, push. Five, pull the core in. It's helping you. Three more. Three and push. You got it. Two and push. One more. One and push. Nice and easy, hop those feet in, roll yourself up to standing. Let's grab a quick stretch. We take our hands behind our back. Weave your fingers if you can. Reach down the back. Roll the shoulder blades back. So, you are stretching up the chest and those sexy shoulders. Let them open. Breathe into it. Good. Now, I like to finish the stretch with a little bit of a shoulder roll forward, a little shoulder roll back, and then you just let your shoulder blades drift down the back. Thank you for joining me today for Sexy Shoulders. That was an inclined pushup. I'm Keith Irace. I'll see you next time.

Sexy Shoulders: Incline Push Ups Video

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