Triple Stop Pushup
recommendations
0
Added on April 8, 2007 devannielsen
A Bigger Chest
Triple-Stop Pushup
Lead with your chest, not your hips. Keep your neck in line with your spine. Depending on where your weakness lies, pushups may challenge you most at the top, middle, or bottom position. "Pausing briefly at each point increases strength at your joint angle and 10 degrees in either direction," says Mejia. Bonus: Holding each position increases the time your muscles are under tension, stimulating growth.
How To Do It
A. Assume the starting position of a regular pushup.
B. Bend your arms to lower yourself halfway, then pause for 2 seconds.
C. Continue until your chest is just off the floor and hold again for 2 seconds. As you push yourself up, pause again for 2 seconds at the halfway point. Finally, when you straighten your arms, hold them that way--with your elbows unlocked--for 2 seconds. That's one repetition.
(menshealth.com)
Triple-Stop Pushup
Lead with your chest, not your hips. Keep your neck in line with your spine. Depending on where your weakness lies, pushups may challenge you most at the top, middle, or bottom position. "Pausing briefly at each point increases strength at your joint angle and 10 degrees in either direction," says Mejia. Bonus: Holding each position increases the time your muscles are under tension, stimulating growth.
How To Do It
A. Assume the starting position of a regular pushup.
B. Bend your arms to lower yourself halfway, then pause for 2 seconds.
C. Continue until your chest is just off the floor and hold again for 2 seconds. As you push yourself up, pause again for 2 seconds at the halfway point. Finally, when you straighten your arms, hold them that way--with your elbows unlocked--for 2 seconds. That's one repetition.
(menshealth.com)
Exercise Steps
(Steps 1 and 2)
(Step 3)
