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Hi, I'm Dr. Garrett Smith for Expert Village. The exercise we're going to go over now is
another horizontal pushing movement. These are elevated push ups. So these are a build
up progression movement to doing normal push ups. What we're going to do on these is we're
going to elevate our hands so that we have less of our body weight to push up. And you'll
see how that works in a second. As you know in a normal push up I'd be all on the ground.
My hands would be on the ground, I'd be going in that manner. By moving the bar up, we make
it easier. So, just set the bar in the supports, where ever you need it. You can do this in
a Smith Machine too, very easily. So, all the normal push up rules apply. We want a
straight body. Head's in line with the spine. And then when we go down, like we talked about
in the knee push up, we don't want the arms to flare out to the sides. Which a lot of
people who are new to push ups do. They try to flare them out. This is really bad for
your shoulders. So, when you go down; watch my elbows. You want your elbows close to your
sides. Ok, not out here. We want them here. They don't have to brush your sides, you just
want them close. And you want to be with your feet in a position, that when you go down,
the bottom of your chest touches the bar. Ladies, that includes you; your chest should
touch the bar. Elbows stay relatively close to the body. Chest touches the bar, and push
up. So done normally,
as you progress in strength, you can move the bar lower and lower. These are a great
progression to do after you're able to do knee push ups with some degree of skill. And
you can move these down to the floor when you learn the straight body position of push
ups. While doing the correct movement to push ups. The thing about knee push ups is they
are a little different than normal push ups in that you don't have to keep your body as
ridged and straight. These you have to keep your body ridged and straight. So that the
next progression towards being able to do regular push ups and even more difficult versions
of push ups in the future.