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- Hi folks I'm Bob Schrupp, physical therapist.
- Brad Heineck, physical therapist.
- Together we are the most famous
physical therapists on the internet.
- In our opinion, of course, Bob.
- Today we're gonna show you
we're gonna talk about you hate push-ups question mark?
See, we're going to give you twenty pushup options
and you'll love at least one, we hope.
- That's right - Cause I mean,
twenty, you should be able to find one you like.
- Bob, pushups are great shoulder,
arm, and core exercise.
And many people hate them because
number one, either they can't do them
because they don't know about the options,
number two, some people think they're too easy.
Number three, some people thing they're boring.
But we're going to show you twenty options.
- They also work on your cardio.
- Oh yeah, yep, gets your heart rate up.
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So Bob, I was thinking about this,
and I've been doing more pushups in the last few months
a lot more, because I found a fun way to do them
and I've been doing pushups all my life
for different activities.
So I'll talk about them as we do it.
We've got five categories
that I've developed these
and Bob's gonna tell me to do a pushup
- I'm gonna tell him which one to do.
- I'm going to do at least two pushups of each one.
So that'll be a total of forty pushups
and I'll be tired by the end of this.
So my heart rate will be up.
Cause they're all you know?
Oh yeah, you're right, we'll see how you do Brad.
We'll see how you hold up here
but I'm not helping out because of my form isn't that great.
I look terrible.
- And I wanted the challenge anyways
cause I didn't practice this at home all in a row.
So let's see.
- All right, let's go with the traditional first.
So he's going to do a kneeling traditional one.
So this is going to be a little bit easier obviously
than just the old foot one.
Now a GI pushup.
- Just the old standard on your toes.
That's a typical one, right?
A traditional one?
- Some people get discouraged because they can't do this,
and they think this is the only way to do a pushup.
So do the options.
- Triangle?
- I go like this and I put it there,
and I try to touch my sternum to that.
- I feel that it's hard to do.
And then opposite of that, wide based.
- Oh, the wide base
get those pecs working.
Out there.
Still maintain that form
tighten the core up, breathe while you do it.
- And then cross ankle bread.
- Oh, this makes a lot more core effort.
Take one ankle, put it across like that on your toe
and it does increase core strength a little more.
Yeah, all right.
- Now while you're resting Brad,
you can also stagger your arms.
I'm not a big fans of those.
- Yeah the older I get, my shoulders get more irritated.
- I don't like doing those exactly.
- Yeah so I left it out.
- Now we're gonna do the ball?
- No the beginner.
- Beginner, you do wanna do the beginner.
- This is the beginner section.
So if you had an injury or you just really--
- You're just really starting out.
A pushup is for you yet.
That's the way to do it.
Wall pushup first
- Same muscles
so I'm gonna go like this.
You know, the farther you bring your feet out,
the harder it is.
- [Bob] Just be careful you have good grip shoes
that you don't slide down.
But this is a great way to start off
anybody can do it.
You can also do it on a cupboard or a countertop.
- It's a little bit harder this way.
- Yeah you're starting to move your way down.
- I'm breathing Bob, I'm breathing.
- And the final one is an air pushup.
- This is my favorite
we used to do this one to warm up in karate.
You lay on your back and everyone loved them.
You're not going to get stronger,
but you know
- It's a good warmup.
- You get some motion there and
it's kind of fun to think about.
- All right, now we're doing the ball.
- No, let's go to the advanced ones
these are little--
- I had one job here and I don't got it right.
Okay, we're gonna do the advanced and then the ball.
- So this advanced one is like
I call it the pole vault pushup?
In high school when I was pole vaulting
you put your feet up against the wall
and this one works those middle deltoids a little bit more.
Okay so you go like this--
- [Bob] So you're kind of a triangle.
- Yeah in a triangle,
and down till your head touches the floor and up.
So it works the triceps.
- [Bob] Yeah, I could see that.
They're working hard.
- Yeah, I'm not gonna do too many of those,
I haven't done those in years.
- All right clap pushup.
- Oh this one's fun. - That's a challenge.
- [Bob] Nice job Brad.
All right, don't wear yourself out.
- Yeah no kidding.
- The loop band.
- This is a newer one for me.
You know, these loops are relatively new to me
and the fitness world.
But they're great for adding--
- If you wanna add some resistance.
You know, if you're stuck on so many pushups
and you want to improve?
Throw some loop bands into your life.
- And they make bigger ones, but if you get up to this--
- You're not gonna be able to do it with that one.
It's the green one, it's really thick.
- Bob I can do it, I know I can do it.
No, actually I don't even want to attempt.
Okay next one.
- All right one-handed, which you can't really do either,
right?
- No, I cannot do a one-handed pushup
it will hurt my shoulder.
- Yeah you really have to have your feet far apart.
- You got to have your foot wide out like this and
I can do just a little bit of one
but, again, I'm more wise now.
- Now do you wanna do the ball or specialties?
- Let's do the ball.
- All right, now the ball.
You do some of these don't you?
- Yes, I do. I do these three days a week.
- Brad's a big ball fan
it works well for his spondy
he does a lot of spondy exercises.
- Yeah low back problem issue
if you're not familiar to that.
I'm squishing my mic thing, so I hope we're okay.
This is a really nice beginner one
I've had a lot of shoulder injuries
rehab with this.
Very easy.
- [Bob] It's a nice way to vary the agamogeneses we saw.
- So I divided, there's a hip
so my hips over the ball...
- [Bob] And there's the knee.
the knee over the ball...
- [Bob] And on the ankles?
- Keep going to the ankle, yep.
- [Bob] And then the final one is on the toes.
- Yeah, I gotta backup
I'm going to bump my head on the stool.
So this makes a big difference.
- [Bob] Yeah now you're working that core and the legs.
- And if you go like this is the really good one.
- [Bob] All right Brad, you gotta save some
for the specialty pushups.
- I know it
just give me a little breather, Bob.
- All right so the next one he's gonna do
is actually a fingertip pushup.
- We use to do this in wrestling in high school.
And the thought was it's gonna make your grip stronger,
but...
- Yeah I'm not a big fan of these Brad.
- I'm not either, I'm just saying you can do it.
And so it's like here.
- [Bob] I just think you're putting a lot of stress
on small ligaments.
- And joints. - And joints, yeah.
- And my thumb dislocates as I get older
I'm almost kind of afraid it will do it.
- I actually would probably--
- For the younger crowd.
- Yeah, yeah if there is one.
- Now the next one. - The fist.
- This we did in karate
make a fist, these two knuckles make contact.
Straight wrist
it does put your wrist in a nice neutral alignment.
And it's not so comfortable on this floor
cause this carpet is really thin.
But that was the idea.
- Dumbbell you really can only show one side
we only have one that'll work.
- So you take two dumbbells like this.
These dumbbells are too small
we don't happen to have a big ones here today.
But this one almost works
and so there should be no contact with your knuckles at all
all the weight goes through the handle
and the edge of the ball.
And if you look at that
so you can do that.
And that's a nice way to take the pressure off the wrist.
- Now if you want a product that's made for doing this,
it's the perfect pushup.
What's nice about it is it rotates too.
- Yeah this is why I started doing pushups again
in the last six months is because of this product.
It feels much better on my wrists,
my shoulders feel better, and I just let things fly
and it's just life is good with the old.
- [Bob] Well look at that Brad,
you have quite a bit of energy left yet.
- It's like driving a car, you know?
A steering wheel on each hand.
Do I got some more?
- He's like a little boy when he gets a toy.
All right well Brad and I can fix just about anything.
- Except for...
- A broken heart.
- I think this can be a chapter in there.
- Well it's working on the chest.
- Yeah it gets the heart rate going.
- Gets you solid so when someone hits your heart,
you're ready for that.
- Oh that's right Bob, you wanna get
- Yeah that's right.
- Boom.
That'll get the old heart going.
- I appreciate that.
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