PUSHUPS - Perfect Form Every Single Time!!

The pushup exercise is one of the most simple, common yet butchered chest exercises when it comes to form. The issue is that most of the time when people perform pushups they are not aware of what is happening with the rest of the their body, and therefore their form suffers. In this video, I’m go

[“Arms of the Angel” by Sarah McLachlan plays] NARRATOR: Every day, in gyms around the world, a pushup is abused. In fact, every 60 seconds, 1,042,376 reps of pushups are performed. But sadly, only 76 of them actually count. JEFF: Jesse?! JESSE: What?!

JEFF: What’s with the floor fkers? JESSE: What are you talking about?! These are perfect reps! JEFF: Oh my God. NARRATOR: Don’t be a floor fker.

Perform your pushups the right way. JEFF: Can we cut the music at this point? Enough tugging at my heartstrings. What’s up, guys? Jeff Cavaliere, ATHLEANX.

com. The abuse is rampant, and we have to stop it. Today we’re going to stop pushup abuse, right here, right now. As a matter of fact, I’m going to show you a way to make sure you do every, single rep, of every pushup you do from here on out perfectly. We’re going to use a phone to do it.

I promise you, this is going to work. Now look, I know you’re not trying to have ‘carnal relations’ with the floor. I get it. But it’s what happens when we cheat the exercise. Let me show you why, really quick.

The reason why that variation Jesse was doing is kind of common is because as the arms start to fatigue in a pushup, we know we’ve got to get the body down to the floor. So, what we do is trick ourselves. We go, “All right. Well, I’m going to get the body down by moving the pelvis about five or six inches, but then the arms are only going to have to do a little bit of the work. Plus, I don’t have to push the whole weight of my body at this point because my knees are down.

” And then we kind of reverse the process. So here, don’t have to push that much weight, and then I lift up at the last minute. Obviously, that’s incorrect. But we do it as a natural cheat. The other thing we do as a natural cheat is, as we get tired and our chest starts to fatigue we want to shift the focus away.

So, we get the butt up higher, and higher. So now we make the shoulders do more of the work. Neither one of them are correct, guys. Obviously, if you want to do a pushup you’ve got to do it with your body moving as one unit. That’s the key.

Are you doing that, or are you thinking about that? Here’s the best tip you’re ever going to get: you get down into position to do the pushup, you want to think two areas, and two areas only. Forget about your arms. All you want to think about is your chest – the whole chest here – and your pelvis. If you move them together and lock them up as one unit and move them together; you’ll never do a rep wrong.

There’s a side benefit to this. If I can get in here and I think ‘chest and pelvis’, chest and pelvis move down together, chest and pelvis move up together. Down together, up together. Down together, up together. I’ve made myself stronger on the pushup.

Why? Because I’ve gotten rid of a lot of the inefficiency. If we move in segments like this, we’re losing a lot of effort and energy in the pushup. We call it ‘plugging the energy leaks’. I come down, and I come up as one unit.

It’s a lot easier and more efficient to do the exercise. So how does the phone come in? That’s really easy. You take your phone, put it right here on your back, right between your shoulder blades. Now, if I try to pull any of that nonsense, and I move the chest up first; it slides right down my back.

We don’t want that. Next thing. If I take it here, put it back between the shoulder blades and I try to – “oh, I’m getting tired” and I go this way; now it falls off that way. We can use this as a feedback mechanism to make sure we’re moving everything in unison by putting it here, locking it up, move everything together. One, two, three, up.

Straight up. Straight down. Straight up. Straight down. Straight up.

Straight down. Pelvis and chest moving together. It’s really simple, guys. But I promise you, do it for a few sets, or a few reps, just to get into the mindset of what it feels like to move together, and as I’ve said, that side benefit of more pushups, and making you stronger on the exercise is going to help you keep there, and stay there from here on out. Guys, let’s end the abuse.

Remember, even one friend you can help is going to make a big, big difference here. One pushup, one world, guys. If we can do this right every, single time we can make a powerful impact starting right here, today. All right, guys. In the meantime, if you’ve found the video helpful, leave your comments and thumbs up below.

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See you soon. [“Arms of the Angel” by Sarah McLachlan plays]