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high push up


Benefits:
  • Strengthens the core
  • Improves posture

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
 

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

Cautions:
  • Injuries
    • ​Wrist
    • Shoulder
    • Back
Alternative Poses:
  • Table top
  • Forearm plank

Anatomy


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

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