These Pushups Will Change Your ENTIRE Body (GUARANTEED!)

Standard pushups can build your upper body but they can’t change your entire body like the ones I’m going to show you in this video. As a physical therapist and strength coach, I know there’s more to building a resilient body that lasts over time than just building muscle. Here, I’m going to show you pushup variations that will improve joint mobility and flexibility in some of the most overlooked areas of the body. These push-ups will target the lower back, hips, thoracic spine, shoulders and core. Build a Resilient Body - http://athleanx.com/x/pushups-for-longevity Subscribe to This Channel Here - http://bit.ly/2b0coMW We start with an improvement on the classic pushup. Rather than lowering your body partially to the ground or guess at how low you should be going for proper form, allow yourself to go all the way down - chest to floor. From here, lift the hands off the ground and perform the hand release pushup. This will immediately engage the muscles of the rotator cuff, on the back side of the shoulder, which are areas that tend to get overlooked which lead to shoulder discomfort and postural problems over time. Doing your push-ups like this will likely lead to fewer total pushups performed but the positive benefits you get from doing them as well as the muscular balance are worth the trade off. The next pushup that you want to start doing is the supermand hand release pushup. Here you don’t want to just lift the hands off the ground but then continue the benefits by extending the arms out in front of you and lifting the thighs at the same time. This will turn this exercise into a complete posterior chain builder, hitting the often undertrained muscles of the back that support the spine from the lumbar area all the way up to your shoulders. Speed is not important here - quality is. Lift each rep deliberately and with the purpose of mindfully engaging the muscles that are more often than not weak. Next up is a pushup popularized by the boxer Mike Tyson. The main benefit of the Tyson Pushup is that it promotes deeper hip flexion, which is one of the first elements of mobility to go when the hip starts to experience joint degeneration. On top of that, it requires a good balance of shoulder mobility and stability / strength. There is a tendency people have to shoot their body too far forward during the exercise but this can be avoided by making sure that you stop as soon as your fact passes your hands. Next up we have a pushup variation that isn’t even meant to target your chest, shoulders or triceps. In fact, it’s performed while laying on your back and the goal is to strengthen the often weak muscles of the upper, middle and lowerback. We call this the Back Widow Pushup. Here you want to angle your elbows about 45 degrees away from your side and point them down into the ground. As you prepare to lift your head and upper back, allow your hands to roll forward a bit and squeeze the muscles of the shoulder blades. Hold for a brief count of 3 and lower slowly back to the ground. Next we have a push-up variation that hits the chest, shoulders and triceps at a different part of the movement - each with more specificity. This is called the divebomber pushup. You want to pretend that there is a fence in front of you that you want to slide under. At the top of the movement you get the added benefit of lumbar extension that is good for people who deal with back pain caused by disk issues. There is a slightly easier version of this that you can perform that involves rocking on the toes as you do the pushup. The benefit here is that you don’t need to go down as far if you lack the strength and it also reinforces the proper pressing biomechanics that are required on a bench press - where the bar travels not just straight up but up and back. Finally, the twisting T pushup is great for building lateral core and pillar strength as well as rotational ab strength. Throw in the stability that is promoted to the shoulder joint and it’s one that can fix bad shoulders and make anyone dealing with shoulder joint issues feel much better. The benefits of the pushup can go far further than just building your upper body. If you start incorporating some of these pushups into your routine each week you will start to feel amazing and more youthful. For a complete program that is designed by a physical therapist to get you feeling stronger, and younger be sure to head to athleanx.com via the link above and get the ATHLEAN-X Training System. For more videos on exercises for longevity and stretches to maintain flexibility over 40 remember to subscribe to our channel via the link above as well.