Tip:
Highlight text to annotate it
X
Hello I'm Sifu Mallon with the Clearwater Kung Fu Center. This is Kickboxing. This is
my assistant Melissa and we're going to go ahead and developing our push ups. Now the
push up is a difficult exercise to perform in the beginning. So we're going to show you
one easy way to go ahead and develop the strength to perform a push up. So this one is called
Push Up Hold. "Melissa go ahead and lay all the way flat onto your stomach". Now, this
push up hold is going to be a beginning hold. So we're going to cross both of your feet
and she's going to go ahead and lift her feet off the floor and we're going to be using
our knees here, so it's where we'll going to be carrying half of our body weight. Now
hand position is important. We want to make sure that front hands, both hands are line
up with the tips of your shoulders, okay. Right about here. We want to make sure that
your elbows are kind of naturally pointing back behind you, not like this, right, and
you don't have to keep it super tight to your body. Okay, right here on this angle. Now
she's going to take a nice deep breath in and she's going to exhale and exert that air
and push her body upward. Now as the body goes up, you'll see that she's extending through
her shoulders here, so she's not allowing her body to collapse.The collapsing is going
to put a lot of stress on your lower back and it's also going to put a little fatigue
between your shoulder blades. So we want to extend through here. Now we can also go from
your legs, your elbows being completely lock, "lock them out Melissa", okay, but, we want
to do is develop that strength. So we're going to bend the elbows a little bit to put more
tension on your muscles here. This is how we perform our Push Up Hold on our knees,
Kickboxing.