high push up

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Benefits:

• Strengthens the core
• Improves posture
  

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Cues:

• Start in a table top position
• Keeping the shoulders directly over the elbows and the elbows over the wrists and walk your knees back about four inches
• Exhale set the core
• Inhale bring the knees off of the ground

 

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Common Errors:

• Fingers are not pointed straight forward
• Fingers are not spread wide
• The seat is lifted high
• There is too much arch in the spine
• Hands are wider or narrower than shoulder width

Modifications:

• The knees can be lowered to the ground
• You can come onto the forearms rather than the palms
  

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Cautions:

• Injuries
  • ​Wrist
  • Shoulder
  • Back

Alternative Poses:

• Table top
• Forearm plank

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Anatomy

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Strengthening:

• Throat
• Neck
  
• Triceps
  
• Core
  
• Erector Spinae
  
• Glutes
  
• Quadriceps