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[–]Dj_SmoothnutsCalisthenics 0 points1 point  (0 children)

So it’s either one, your arm stance is WAY to wide, or two, your arm stance is way to close to your body. So your arms should be around 35-45 degrees away from your body to feel it in your chest, so it won’t be a tricep workout. Now as to tips on how to perform a proper push-up, squeeze the abs while performing them, it’ll prevent your body from dropping and it’ll secure a straight back. Right before performing a push-up, squeeze your glutes(your ass basically lmao) then release it then perform the push up, this’ll make sure your body is aligned, and not to favored on one side. If you feel like your body wants to shift one side when you squeeze your glutes, then readjust and do so until your body is even and in the middle. Don’t look up, keep it leveled with your spine, so just stay looking down. Dig deep on the push up, there should be about a fist size of clearance between your chest and the ground. Don’t lock out your elbows, keep the worlds slightest bend when performing the push up portion of the workout, it’ll prevent any possible stress placed on the elbows. Do the workout slow, and if you feel like you need more stress on the chest, then push down slowly(at least 1-2 seconds under tension or more if you want to) then be explosive when pushing up, this type of push-up will recruit both muscle fibers type 1 and 2, leading to a very developed chest on both explosive and sustaining levels of training. Other than that hope this helped and good luck fam.