Plank to push up

Plancha y flexión de brazos

STARTING POSITION:

Lie on the floor face down and place your hands slightly wider than shoulder width apart while holding your torso up at arms length. Extend your legs straight out behind you. Support your weight on your toes and hands. Keep the shoulders far from the ears retracting your shoulder blades. Contract your pelvic floor and core while keep your body straight.

MOVEMENT:

Start lowerning yourself by bending your elbows and change the support of your upper body from hands to forearms. Do it first with one arm and then with the other. Press your upper body back to the starting position changing now the support of your body from your forearms to hands. Squeeze always your abdominal and oblique muscles.

TIPS: The trick is to perform the exercise without any movement of the hips. Keep the head facing the floor. Don't let the hips go down.

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