What's going on YouTube, it's your boy Aydian here. In this video
we are talking about building up your pectoral muscles your chest, your pecs, whatever you want to call them
Either pre hormones or pre top surgery or just in general
Overall no matter what you decide to do in your life as per your own personal transition
So let's just jump right into this video
I really want you to get a sense of how to do the exercise rather than just watching me go through the exercises
So, first off
I just want to introduce you to the exercises. So, the first exercise is going to be a wide grip pushup
The second exercise is going to be a shoulder grip pushup or shoulder length
pushup [laughs] the third exercise will be a diamond pushup which will also work some of your
tricep. Then we'll go into, I couldn't think of a good name for this
It's kind of like a V push-up because you kind of have like your butt up in the air
And we'll do a V pushup. We'll also do incline push-ups and
We'll also be incorporating dips, which you would just need two chairs or two hard surfaces that you can put close together
So really easy to do all you need literally is just an open space and if you want to do some dips
Maybe two chairs that you can put together and I'll show you how to do that a little bit later
but I think the main thing to remember about this workout is this is called a
circuit workout, which means you're going to do the first exercise
for about 30 seconds
Then you're going to give yourself a 10-15 second break honestly, take as much time as you need in between,
but you want to get like your heart beat up
So you know, the less time in between the better?
So you're going to do 30 seconds on then take about 10 to 15 seconds off then just do 30 seconds of the second exercise
10 to 15 seconds, and you'll keep going, third exercise 10 to 15 seconds, fourth exercise for 30 seconds
Then you'll take 10 to 15 seconds off, then you'll give about two,
I say four, five minute break, and then you'll repeat this circuit. Now
I would suggest to do this circuit start off your first time doing it about three rounds
Then I would up it to about four rounds
That's usually a really good time and again you can push yourself within those 30 seconds. You shouldn't have to do
20 circuits. Pretty much you can get the same results if you just
bust your ass during the thirty seconds rather than having to do like 14 circuits of
30 seconds of mediocre effort put in. So while making this video kind of condensed and quick
I don't want this to be some 20 minute video on how to do a push-up
but what I want you to do is I want you to get a sense of how the exercise actually completed, so
The first exercise is going to be the wide grip pushup. So we're going to move on over to the floor
I have this open space right here. I'm going to move this table
I mean this chair a little bit more, so I have this open space right here. So my shoulders are right here, so
We're going to go a little outside of shoulder width I'm going to go about
here. Okay, so in order to do a good pushup
You want to do is you want to make sure that your ass is really flat and straight?
You know your- the look of your back should be like this
Not you're not really going to be completely straight like this is going to be a little bit like this because you know your arms
Are up and your feet are down so little outside width
Get in position and we're just going to go down
touch and up
So you're going to do this for 30 seconds as many as you can do in 30 seconds
Then you'll take about a 10 or 15 second break, so this is what it looks like if you're above
All right yeah side shoulder-width
boom
And also just want to show you really quick. This is how you do all of your
push-ups. I want to show you how my back is so that you can really get a sense of how fairly straight your back should
be so
if you notice the only thing really up, right if I lay down
That's what my back looks like, that's what I want it to look like when I'm up in this position
see that
Not really moving much. So you'll do that for about 30 seconds
Then you're going to take a 10 to 15 second break if it's your first round
you know your first time really ever working out you can take longer
But eventually you like to work on this like 30 seconds on, 10 to 15 seconds off, 30 seconds on. So, the second exercise
is the shoulder. So as you can tell what we're going to do is we're going to go from wide grip,
to shoulder grip, to diamond grip okay,? So next up is your what is your shoulder, so again
This is where my shoulders are at right here, okay get in position
Now these are what you would consider like a generic pushup when someone says like drop down and give me 20
This is usually the position that people go
So you do this again 30 seconds, so you have 30 seconds wide grip 30 seconds shoulder grip
Then you'll take 10 to 15 seconds off, and then you'll move in to diamond grip. Diamond grip can be a little hard at times
especially if you don't have a lot of tricep development, so if you need to
Essentially you want the diamond to touch fingers, if you need to you could start out wide and then as you practice
Get closer and closer and closer, so for example. This is what you would want it to look like
Nice, diamond. It literally looks like a diamond in there actually it kinda looks like a hershey kiss to me
or a hova sign [laughs]
hold
So to do a little diamond push up like this
Your elbows go kinda out and back to the side, again
you'll do this for 30 seconds if you need to you can move out just a little bit
And go like this, and then slowly be able to work your way in a little bit more
And then a little bit more until you're able to touch
The next exercise is going to be an incline push-up. So what I do here is, I have a chair or for instance
I was almost going to use this garbage can flipped over, but it's got trash in it, so I don't really feel like using it
So I'm going to use this chair
I'm going to put my toes on this chair
And I'm going to use this as my incline. You could also use the bed
Depending on how high of an incline you wanted to go
I mean I could even pull out this drawer and put my feet on here
If I needed to. So you're just going to put your feet up on here
I'll kind of go at an angle for you guys, so you can see. Okay? just like that
I'm going to go about shoulder width apart
down up
Just like before we want to make sure that chest touches the ground
And so you'll do this for 30 seconds
Then you'll take a 10 or 15 second break and again
This is on the piggybacking off of the other three push-ups, then you'll take a 10 to 15 second break
We're going to go into what I was calling the V push-up
Which I honestly I'm sure I could look online and find the actual word for this push-up
But it's pretty much just a great way to try to target that upper chest and
You're going to literally kind of put your body in a V shape
Here put your body kind of like this, your butt's going to be very up
Okay, your arms are going to be a little bit just a little bit wider than shoulder-width
So this would be my shoulder width I'm going to put them right here
Not super wide but kind of that in between okay?
So I need to go kind of in between
I'm going to go up on my toes get put my butt up as high as I can okay?
and then I'm going to push down and
up
Touch my face to the floor, and up
And I'll do that for about 30 seconds. Now
it's gonna get harder as the time goes on okay, so don't be mad at yourself
If ay first you're getting ten push-ups by the end you're getting four you know what I mean? it's just how it's goes sometimes
What you'll notice is if you keep a record you'll be able to track that the first time you did five the second time you just set it
The third time you did eight
And I'm sure that you'll keep going up. Now ,if you stop for three weeks
you're not going to go back and be eight, you'll probably be a four, five, and work your way up again
So, one more time a little bit further than shoulder width apart. Ass up in the air
It's kind of as close as I can get without being really uncomfortable for me
I'm going to touch my face of the floor
Just like that
now to finish off I
challenge you to do one minute after this circuit upon of a plank. Now a plank is when- this is an elbow plank
But the great thing about elbow plank because it actually does- not only does it engage your core planks are mostly known for ab work
but so not only does it engage your core, but it actually also engages your chest. So,
Plank is just going to be shoulders like this, going to be up like this, try to keep your ass not down,
but not up again. You want to kind of be
Straight like that okay? I'm just going to stay here
So what I challenge you is to stay here for- start with 30 seconds then try to move up to
40 seconds, then 50, then a minute
This is really good. Just kind of helps the burn out of your chest you can also go like this on one on each side
If you'd like.
Personally I would just stay here. I think that this is a great core and
also adds in a little bit of that chest, kind of just to fatigue that chest out at the end. One last exercise
I want to show I actually don't have the best equipment for it, but it is a really good at-home workout
And so you're going to grab two chairs and so this going to be my first chair
And I'm going to use this table as my second chair
But one thing I don't want you to do is I don't want you to get something
that's uneven. See how these are uneven? This chair is about
Two or three inches higher than this. I really wouldn't prefer that you're just- lots of case of injury, and also a swivel chair
is not a good idea, but I'm at a hotel
I'm trying my best. I want to show you guys. So, dips you're going to go just
Going to put one arm on each and hold yourself up, okay?
And then you're going to dip down till your arms are at about a ninety degree level- a ninety degree angle
So I'm going to dip down to about here, and then I'm going to press back up
Down and up, so that's what I'm going to do right here
Again, this is not ideal
actually, it's really not ideal because
what's going to happen is whatever arm is closest to you is going to be the- is going to be the pectoral muscle
that's going to take on most of the work, so in this stance, this is lower
so my right side is going to actually work less than my right side
I mean my right side good work left in my left side. And I can feel it too
So, maybe what I might do in this case is I might turn around and
that might work so that this side can also get hit
I'm moving around a little bit because again this chair swivels, not ideal, but it works
I literally just ran through that and I already have a nice little pump going on in my chest
And I didn't even do the 30 seconds
I really just did about 10 or 20 reps of each exercise to show you guys just to get some footage and
I've already got a little bit of a pump going. I really think that these push-ups are real big staples in
chest work. It's really simple to do, you don't need
anything really, you don't even have to do the dips.
They're just something extra if you have lying around
But the point is is that if you have never developed any chest muscle. If you've really never worked out in your life
This is a great way to start
It doesn't cost any money, and honestly it doesn't take that much time, and you can do this
Circuit for your chest two, three times a week
And especially like you know if you're somebody who travels a lot somebody who doesn't have a lot of time,
you know these are really good quick workouts- a quick workout at home that you can do
For zero dollars [laughs] and it will work, it will develop your pecs
I know that I do train with weights, and I have been for years, but you will develop muscles if you
Start doing a set of exercises. You can go ahead and Google right now, or look on YouTube right now
Bodyweight exercises and stuff like that. Or for instance look up, what- what are their- Bar Stars?
Bar stars are so cool. They make like anything like they just make people look.
massive right? And so bar stars is just like a- it's a calesthenic group
that does like pull ups and crazy stuff like that, but they don't use any weight besides their own body weight.
And so that's what I'm trying to get to is that you don't necessarily always need
huge weights
I hope this workout- little
circuit workout helps some of you if you're just
nervous to get in to the gym, or if you know you want to get top surgery but you really want to build some pectoral muscle
underneath first, or if you're just fresh out of top surgery and you've got the go from your doctor to start working out
But you don't want to go too crazy into it. You can start doing at home workouts like these
They're very very helpful, and I for one definitely
attest my
Post my like original post-Opness when I first got top surgery
- just looking a little bit more aesthetic, and that's just because I already had pictorial muscles underneath
my tissue- my breast tissue
so when they remove that tissue I was able to be able to actually see the
Definition that I had created in my pec. There we go gyts I hope that this helps some of y'all and
Please feel free like you should really do- what you should do is you should keep a log and you should log
What you did and how much of each you did
Then what you should also do is you just take a picture of the first two week take a picture the second week,
Third week, every week. Once a week take a picture and then look between the first week and the eighth week
Do you see more definition. Now, you're not going to blow up overnight, okay? I've been working out a very long time
I could be bigger, but I've got a lot of other goals in my life and
what I'm trying to get at is like you're not going to look like Ronnie Coleman the minute
You know after eight weeks of doing chest workouts, and you're not going to magically no longer have breast tissue by doing these workouts either
but
They are going to help you. I've noticed for me when I worked out pre-t,
just made me feel more connected to my body and made me feel like I am strong that I
can, you know I
can hold my own type of thing. Alright
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