When it comes to the pushup, there is a huge improvement that can be made that will benefit your body. Rather than lowering your body partially to the ground or guess at how low you should be going for proper form, allow yourself to go all the way down – chest to floor. From here, lift the hands off the ground and perform the hand release pushup. This will immediately engage the muscles of the rotator cuff, on the back side of the shoulder, which are areas that tend to get overlooked which lead to shoulder discomfort and postural problems over time.
Doing your push-ups like this will likely lead to fewer total pushups performed but the positive benefits you get from doing them as well as the muscular balance are worth the trade off.
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