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♪ the two most famous ♪
♪ physical therapists ♪
♪ on the internet ♪
- By doing pushups
- Air pushups, my favorite.
- Hi folks, I am Bob Schrupp, physical therapist.
- Brad Heineck, physical therapist.
- Here we are the most famous physical therapists
on the internet.
- In our opinion, of course, Bob.
- Pushups now this is Brad speaking.
Pushups, I hated them until I started doing them like this.
So he's gonna to reveal today what changed his mind?
- Wow, it's true.
It's very true, Bob.
And I'm excited to do it because anything that gets me
pumped up is learning something new and enjoying it.
And I want to share.
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- Good job Bob, you did it less than a minute.
- Alright.
- Excellent work.
Okay, so pushups, excellent you know body weight exercise.
- Really awesome.
It really actually works a lot on your cardio.
- Yeah, it'll get your heart rate up.
But I'm not going to get into that aspect of it Bob.
We're going to talk about, you know, working up the chest.
You know, the triceps - Shoulders, triceps.
- And core because you really gotta tighten up that core
if you do them properly.
- You're actually getting your legs too.
I mean, they gonna be kicking in.
- Yeah, it is really nice total body work out.
But I gotta be honest with you, Bob.
I really didn't like doing them.
So I just didn't do them.
It's like pull-ups, just didn't like doing them.
So I didn't do them except for air pushups.
You know what air pushups are?
- No I don't.
- I'll show you, watch this.
I don't mind doing these, these are air pushups.
I could do a hundred of them.
- What's wrong with you?
Why would you even say that?
- We used to, we used to do them in karate for a warmup.
Just to kind of a, cause you got some movement.
Anyways let's get onto the, the brunt of it here.
So push ups are they.
The problem is, as I get older,
especially it was irritating my wrist.
- Not easy to do.
- You can irritate your elbows and shoulders.
I got a friend who can't do them because his shoulder
irritates his shoulder.
- We're gonna to show you one thing
when you do a proper technique
that might help the shoulder a little.
- Sure, right.
And that's what we're gonna go through
some details about how to do them.
And I'm not talking about for people who want
to do pushups you know 300 in a day,
But if you want to add pushups to your routine.
These little things can make them fun and make them more
tolerable and a good part of your program.
- And I hope you want to include Brad
is that there are ways modified ways to do these
where you don't have to do them on the floor.
- Right, exactly.
- I mean, you can do knee ones on the floor.
- We're going to show the knee one, but there's actually,
if you really, I have a hard time doing the knee ones.
We do have some videos on beginner beginner pushups.
- Yeah, right.
So the countertop or the wall.
- Right.
But we're gonna leave that for we got.
- Sure, we got plenty to talk about Brad.
- Yeah; okay.
So the first thing you want
to talk about is the basics of the shoulders.
So make sure that your shoulders aren't shrugging up
while you're doing them.
This could happen without even being aware of it.
- Right.
- So make sure the shoulders are down.
And then, could you show him Bob.
We want to take the scapulars
and actually squeeze them together.
So we're going to go down, squeeze them together.
- Well you actually want to think about this
while you're doing the pushups
because you're actually trying to bring them back together.
You know, this is, when I do pull up now too,
I try to do the same thing, you're always trying to.
- It's the foundation of your shoulders and arms.
So we need to get them in the right spot, okay.
There's also, I'm going to add another bonus
at the end of this session.
Not well, before the very end, but it's,
I think everyone should add this onto pushups.
It's very simple too.
So anyways, I'm going to get into position.
So I'm going to bring the shoulders down.
And instead of being up like this.
And that's how I was used to do them.
I'm gonna bring them down like this and get those
shoulder blades together.
And then it becomes much easier to do it.
It feels better, it just feels better.
- Look what he's doing.
Are we are going to talk about the elbows now.
- Yes, let's go to the elbows now.
So we got our shoulders in the right position.
- You actually got really good form, Brad.
- Thank you Bob, wow!
Lets go to elbows. - Sure.
- So now some people may do them.
And their elbows may be out, out like this.
- That's how I did them.
- So my elbows are kind of pointed out to the abduction.
- Right.
- And the problem with that is like the person
who has a shoulder problem.
If you put your shoulders out like this.
This actually, you can get some impingement.
And you're putting stress on the shoulders at the same time.
So for the person who has shoulder problems.
Try with the elbows in and see if that helps.
- So as opposed to doing them like this,
I'm exaggerating a little bit.
We're going to change the hand position.
- Look at the hands fingers forward.
- Right, and I don't have my hands out in here.
They're actually underneath my shoulders.
And you can go back farther a little bit if want.
My thing is get them in a comfortable position.
And it should feel, let me get my scapulars properly.
And that does work more of a tricep as well.
- Oh yeah.
- Which usually people do want with a pushup.
- Now that may be harder for people
and they may have to start on a knees.
- Right, exactly.
And there's absolutely nothing wrong with that.
And actually I encourage it.
So, you know you're gonna need to be on carpet.
Because if you go on a hard floor that probably
is gonna irritate your knees.
So we're going to do all this.
So there's quite a bit of things to think about when you.
- I mean, you honestly can do that
against a countertop or you can do it against the wall too.
I know we talked about it a bit on another video,
but you could start off like this.
- There you go. - Just to get
the form and to start the exercise.
- Right, exactly right Bob.
So now all those little things have been helpful for me,
but the big kicker that really.
- Made a difference. - Made a difference.
Is my wrists in the last few years,
I guess part of the aging process are more sensitive to
being out of neutral.
Particularly with weight on them.
So getting the wrist in neutral position,
can be a really big plus.
- You think about it, the wrists are the smallest joint
on this whole chain.
And they're taking the most stress probably.
- Exactly, it's a complicated joint.
- It's a complicated joint.
- So be good to your wrists.
We want to keep them healthy for a long time.
So a neutral position is here.
When you're going to pushup position
is way back to end range.
- And joints do not like to be at their end range.
- Right.
So we're going to try to get them.
Now I want to show you three options
to go into a neutral position with pushups.
The first one goes back to my karate days.
We would do pushups with fists.
- That seems hard.
- It's not!
- Isn't it.
- You gotta be on carpet.
I mean, we used to do it on floor
because we felt we were tough.
- You guys probably took crush rock
and you put down like this!
- So you go like this and I don't recommend people
to do this unless you really want to,
but it does keep your wrist in a neutral position.
- Sure, probably harder on your fingers though right?
- Well, yeah, you're supposed to toughen up
your knuckles for the punch, whatever.
So I'm not going to necessarily recommend that.
But if you do have some dumbbells,
they're perfect because you can grab them.
And then you have an air gap here.
As long as you're the big ones.
If you got two smaller ones,
then it doesn't work.
So you get like five pounders or bigger diameter here.
Keep that wrist in a neutral position.
And then do all your other mechanics we already discussed.
And boy, does this make a difference.
I cannot tell you how much better I feel with that.
And then I go to the next step farther.
This is when I really fell in love with the pushups.
As I got some of these.
- Perfect pushups. - Perfect pushups.
You know, I'm not sure there's.
- There's different brands I think.
- Right, yeah, there's other place others.
And the advantage of this, you get a neutral position.
Plus it rotates, which could take pressure off your elbow,
your shoulder joint, and your wrist.
It does it all.
So here I'll show you from this angle.
And you could see it's just so smooth.
I am just in heaven with these.
- Yeah, I can tell.
- Yeah, it's fun Bob.
- I can see your form looks better
and everything looks better.
- Yeah, It's just, I'm telling you
that title was not exaggerated.
Boom, boom, and also.
- I have to go back to those.
I was doing them for a while.
- These are like, boosh.
If you have a. - Can fix a broken heart.
- Fix a broken heart, that's all part of it.
So now the last thing I do want to mention.
Is when you get done with your pushups,
or before you start.
I call these, we used to call them pushups with a plus.
The plus is this.
Is lock the elbows out.
And in this case you're not going to worry
about your scapulars being where we talked about before.
But watch this all as I'm gonna to do is pushups like this.
What muscle am I working Bob?
- Greater anterior I think.
- Subscapularis!
- Oh, subscapularis.
- Right, and you know this helps.
It works at small muscle,
it keeps those subscapularis tight into the rib cage.
It's just one of those little things that,
that muscle doesn't get challenged a lot.
- Sure
- And that will do it.
You might as well do 10 of those before or after your
pushups just to be complete.
- Well, Brad, why don't you take your pushups skills
and show us how you use them on our giveaway.
- Oh yeah, the giveaway.
So we've got the suspension straps.
And this is just another option to do pushups.
And you can keep your wrists in neutral position.
Do everything we talked about.
And we're gonna have some instability
because of the straps.
Which even adds another dimension, which is nice.
And my core balance.
- Hey you're better at those than I am.
- They're fun, Bob.
I don't do those.
I do it with my feet and.
We can do flies.
We can do flection.
I'll do this thing like this,
kind of to work the same
muscles as when he reach out in swim.
But that's a personal thing.
Not many people do that.
- Anyway, check them out.
They're also, these are also on sale I believe.
They got a discount on them going on right now.
- 30%?
- Yeah, I think 30% off.
They said, they're going to keep it that price.
It's like one third the cost of any other competitor.
I think, they, and these are really high quality.
I think so one third the cost.
- We could vouch.
- I think it ends up being like 40 bucks
and so on, almost over hundred.
- It's a steal, it literally is, it's a heck of a deal.
- I think they're just trying to dump them.
- Bob once again we do have a one thing, but you know,
we can fix this about anything except for--
- A broken heart.
- But look we've got there.
- Clear!
- Boom!
- That was kind of fun.
How you feel, Bob?
- Yeah, I feel a lot better, thanks a lot.
- Good luck.