Push-ups can be done with a medicine ball for added resistance. Learn medicine ball exercises for strength training and conditioning in this free fitness video.
Sue Conrad is a personal trainer with a certification through the American Council on Exercise (ACE) since 2001. She currently teaches cardio-kickboxing and trains clients aged 11 to 86.
This clip's going to be a medicine ball push up. We're going to start off with the most advanced option and then go down to the basic. If you have any shoulder problems you probably want to alleviate from this exercise. Okay, you're going to slowly come down to a semi squat position on the floor, place the ball on the floor. Okay, now, we're going to come down and then come back up. When you first get started on these, don't be surprised if you can't come down all the way. Because it's very challenging to stabilize. Now if this exercise is a little too much, up on the toes, for you. I'm going to show you another option. Cross the ankles and go as such. Try and keep you back nice and flat and look straight ahead. Okay, so you're going to come back on your toes. Now, for some reason, this isn't challenging enough for you, you can always use two. You going to try and make sure that they're fairly close in size, these are both 8's but there's a little bit of a discrepancy. But it's really good for strengthening and stabilizing the shoulders. Come up and bring it down. Now, try and keep the balls from moving around too much so you don't separate your shoulder.
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