S5 EP6: Push Ups - Get Off Your Knees
The Thick Thighs Save Lives Podcast
Constantly Varied Gear
4.9 • 724 Ratings
🗓️ 18 May 2021
⏱️ 37 minutes
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Summary
Why should you get off your knees? In today’s episode, Rachael and Kelsea discuss push-ups – how you should do them, how you can modify them, and why you need to get off your knees while you do them. Listen in to hear about how to correct faults in push-up positioning, how to modify push-ups correctly, and how to have fun with your push-ups while using quality mechanics.
Topics Discussed in Today’s Episode:
- Getting off your knees
- How to modify push-ups
- Common faults in push-up positioning
- Best hand positioning
- Shoulder positioning
- The reasons not to be on your knees
- Underutilized ways to work on pushing strength
- The importance of using quality mechanics
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Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | and they push with their center of gravity because that's the strongest pushing position. |
| 0:05.1 | When your hands are flailing away from you and your elbows and your shoulders are all flailing |
| 0:10.4 | away from your body, they're in their weakest position. So now you're asking them to be under |
| 0:16.7 | the full load of your body and push. That's A, just not a good idea. And B, like for the health |
| 0:23.7 | of them, but B, you're not getting max output out of them because that's not how you're your |
| 0:28.6 | strongest. If you were going to go push something, you would get your arms as close to you |
| 0:32.9 | as humanly possible to push with your whole self. |
| 0:39.7 | The big question is this. |
| 0:43.7 | In a world of fake Instagram models and bad diets, |
| 0:48.1 | how do real people achieve their fitness goals? |
| 0:52.3 | We are an army of hardworking women, |
| 0:55.0 | changing their lives through fitness and health. |
| 0:59.0 | Wherever you are at on your journey, |
| 1:02.0 | we have the answers to how to make working out |
| 1:05.0 | and eating well a part of your life. |
| 1:08.0 | Join us in changing the dialogue for women everywhere. |
| 1:12.6 | Welcome to the Thick Thighs Save Lives podcast. |
| 1:17.8 | Hi guys and welcome back to the Thick Thigh Save Lives podcast. |
| 1:21.2 | I'm Rachel. |
| 1:22.0 | I'm Kelsey. |
| 1:23.2 | Thank you for no warning on that. |
| 1:26.9 | Ready to go. I was kind of testing out the buttons and it gave a three, two, one. So I figured we could just roll with it. I feel like we're ready. |
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