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Pushup help?
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Hi Veena,
Thanks for the advice. I will definitely have a look at your lessons.
I generally take things slowly, so I definitely won’t be doing the inverts at least not until I am up to that in the classes! From the video, I was only doing a few things. Mainly the pole hold (with the lowering and trying to lift myself back up managing 1-2 inches off the floor), as this is what the instructor had us doing in the classes. I also did the knee hug to work my core a bit and tried the superman pushup.
I also only do these more challenging exercises after I am done with practicing the pole moves. During warm up, I actually do lighter work to ease myself into practicing the pole moves, so I believe your lessons would come in handy.
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Everyone has some awesome advice in here, so I’m not going to say too much because it will just repeat what everyone else has said.
But it does sound like a strength issue – training negatives or increasing the distance of you from the floor (using a bench or a wall) is an amazing way to train to build the strength to be able to do the exercise.
(Conversely if you’re pro and are awesome at push ups elevating the feet onto a bench will make the exercise harder)That ‘lumpy muscle’ nonsense sounds like broscience. What does that even mean??? I would ignore that advice.
Also just wanted to add in (which I don’t think has been added in) is that push ups are actually more of a chest exercise than people realise (in fact it’s mostly chest). So it’s not that weird that polers (who have a lot of back strength) may not necessarily be able to do push ups if they’re not training the reverse muscle groups.
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