Band Push Up

Overview

The push up is a great upper-body exercise. When performed often, it develops strength and endurance in the chest, shoulders, and triceps. Performing push-ups with a resistance band increases the difficulty of the exercise. If you've been leaving the push-up out of your upper-body workout because it's too easy, add the resistance band and you'll be surprised at the results. The exercise is fun to perform and feels good on the upper-body muscles. Best of all you can do push-ups anywhere.

Description

• Wrap the elastic band around your upper back
• Secure both ends of the band in your hands
• Get into a pushups position
• Keep your head, neck, and body aligned in a straight line.
• Lower yourself as far as you can by bending your arms.
• Push back up to the top.

Purposes

• Upper-body strength
• Trunk, hip and leg stability

Mistakes

• Dropping the head
• Letting the body sag, especially the low back
• Holding the hips up too high