Sexy Shoulders: Push Up Variations Video

Push ups are perhaps the easiest and best way to work the arms and chest muscle groups. Learn how to get sexy shoulders and perform push up variations properly from a certified personal trainer in this workout video.

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Push up position
Grip dumbbells
Keep back straight
Implement arm pull ups

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Mimi Saraiva is a former gymnast for the Brazil national team. Mimi moved to Los Angeles 10 years ago and is now a certified and licensed personal trainer and a trainer for iTRAIN.com. iTRAIN provides more than 275 workouts in its library ranging from treadmill to elliptical, cycling, strength training, and many more.

Hi everybody. My name is Mimi and welcome to Sexy Shoulders. Today, I'm going to teach you an exercise called the pushup dumbbell rows. All you need is two dumbells and a mat. This exercise works the chest, shoulders, triceps, and your back also. Position the dumbells right under your shoulders. All you need to do now is align your body into a diagonal. Make sure your abs are real tight, and the rest of your body as well. Now, I want you to come down into a push up. Stop a couple of inches before you hit the ground, bring it back up and as you bring it up, elevate one dumbell at a time squeezing your back muscle. Bring it back down and up. [DEMONSTRATION] You can do about 15 repetitions of this motion [DEMONSTRATION] and you'll get an excellent upper body workout. [DEMONSTRATION] That's it. Let's do a couple more. [DEMONSTRATION] Up, up, and down. [DEMONSTRATION] Very good. Now, if this is easy for you and you need a little more challenge, we can take it to level 2. We're going to do the same motion, we need to extend your legs in the back. Let's go ahead, I'm going to show you how to do it. [DEMONSTRATION] Same position, knees up, open your legs a little bit wider than you should in a regular push up. We're going to do 10 times because this is a little harder. Make sure your body is straight, come on down and let's start. One [DEMONSTRATION] and two, [DEMONSTRATION] three, [DEMONSTRATION] four, [DEMONSTRATION] five. Keep it up and keep breathing. [DEMONSTRATION] Two more. [DEMONSTRATION] Last one [DEMONSTRATION] and that's it. That's a hard exercise but you did great. This is Sexy Shoulder move of the day. Thank you for joining me. My name is Mimi and I'll see you soon.

Sexy Shoulders: Push Up Variations Video

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