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Thursday, January 7, 2010

Push up's are fun!

Tried and true...the push-up, this time with intention, aka your CORE! From your back, roll on to one side and come to your hands and knees. Take a moment to align your wrists below your shoulders. Drop your shoulder blades, find your neutral spine, engage your core and extend your feet back into the up position of a push-up, plank position. Hold this position and feel your core engaged, your shoulders down, away from your ears and your legs and arms active. From here, lower your entire body to hover above the ground and with a big exhale push yourself back up. Only do as many as you can in proper alignment, do not allow your stomach to sag toward the floor or your shoulders to creep up to your ears. There are plenty of variations to the push-up...hold your body in the up position, plank, that position alone is plenty challenging! Do your push-ups on your knees, in proper alignment, the "girl" push-up takes on a whole new definition! Find your alignment standing against a wall and do wall push-ups or place a yoga block or large book under one hand, do 3-5 and switch the block to the other hand. Do 2-3 sets, as many as you can in proper alignment.

Have a great day! Get out for some fresh air! Your brain will love you...

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