Synaesthesia Posted February 14, 2003 Posted February 14, 2003 Could you describe what the following pushups are? Push ups: Diamond, Tiger Bend, Hindu Doing pushups from the handstand is one I like, it's good for the shoulder strength. Running up stairs is awsome. I started it by walking up the stairs at my school's library two steps at a time. Eventually I just started sprinting. Running 34 floors with five or six heavy textbooks is a sure way to get your blood moving! I actually find it a lot easier on my knees than jogging. Problems with that has prompted me to start lower rep, higher intensity leg routines. One of the really nice things about it is running down again. Doing it two or three stairs at a time gives me much better balance and confidence on my feet. Just don't fall, I hear brain trauma can be bad for the old neuromuscular coordination...
jmy77 Posted February 14, 2003 Author Posted February 14, 2003 Sure, Diamond Push Ups: Get into your normal push up position, fingers forward, thumbs pointing at each other. The move your hands in until the tips of your thumbs touch each other and the tips of your index fingers touch (Forming a diamond shape, hence the name). Start pushin'! When in the down position the diamond should be in the middle of your chest. Concentrates on your triceps. Tiger Bend Push-Ups: Get into your normal push up position, fingers forward. Make sure your hands are under your shoulders. When you drop to the low position you keep your elbows against your side. Go down until your forearm is completely on the floor and push up, again keeping your elbow against your side. You'll feel it in your shoulders, at least I do. Hindu Push-Ups: Okay. You want to start with your feet spread wider than shoulder width, your rear end up in the air and you hands out in front of you and your head down, looking at your legs. Then you bring you hips to the ground and your head facing the ground (you should end up in the low push up position). You complete the movement by then pressing your arms up, keeping your hips in the low position look up at the ceiling (arcing your back). There are pictures of this somewhere on the web. If I find them I’ll post the link here. If anyone else has them please post a link. Enjoy and keep pushin'! If you want to work stairs a new way try this. Take as many steps as you can reach at once. Example. Start both feet together at the bottom stretch and put one foot on the third step (my max reach) then with that leg step your body up until both feet are on that step and repeat with the opposite foot. Take it slow and start on the side of the steps so if you lose balance you can grab the handrail. If you can do 2 try 3. It will slow you down a great deal and when you get to the point where it is physically impossible to stretch to the next step (probably after 3)- Leap! But do this carefully and ONE LEAP at a TIME! Start at the bottom both feet together and leap (one foot forward) to the fourth step. Get both feet on that step then with the opposite foot leap another 4 steps. Stand both feet on that step and repeat. Do this until you have enough explosive power to leap without stopping or using the handrail for balance, then add a step. They used to make us do that in wrestling. But again be V-E-R-Y careful, if you miss a step or don't get fully up to it you WILL go down backwards and that will result in p-a-i-n and not the good kind either. So start where it is easy and progress. "Don't hit at all if it is honorably possible to avoid hitting; but never hit soft." - Pres. Theodore Roosevelt "You don't have to like it, you just have to do it." - Captain Richard Marcinko, USN, Ret."Do more than what is required of you." - General George S. Patton"If you have to step on someone else to stand tall, then you truely are a small person." - ?
jmy77 Posted February 19, 2003 Author Posted February 19, 2003 A buddy of mine came across this on the web so i thought i would share it with you all... Ball-Planch Push-up - This is a difficult type of push-up. The starting position is a ball planch. Dip down as close to the floor as you can keeping your body horizontal and without touching your knees to the floor and push back up to a ball-planch.Click here for an image. http://www.drillsandskills.com/images/display?path=planchball.jpg Also, from what i remember of a Matt Furey e-mail: Another exercise for stairs. Put both hands on your hips and jump to the first step. then stop (killing all momentum.) then jump to the next step and stop until you get to the top. keep both feet together throughout. when you get good try jumping 2 steps, or using only one foot. Remember to always be v-e-r-y careful on stairs and stay near the hand rail so you can grab if you slip. "Don't hit at all if it is honorably possible to avoid hitting; but never hit soft." - Pres. Theodore Roosevelt "You don't have to like it, you just have to do it." - Captain Richard Marcinko, USN, Ret."Do more than what is required of you." - General George S. Patton"If you have to step on someone else to stand tall, then you truely are a small person." - ?
KickChick Posted February 19, 2003 Posted February 19, 2003 Nice one ... I like!!! ... yeah, its a rule of mine ... "Always take the stairs" --- For one, its great exercise, and two --- I was stuck on an elevator for nearly and hour while enroute delivering drugs to a convalescent home (when I was a teen working at a pharmacy) I believe I still have nightmares!!! But real good exercises ..... I may try those on my class tomorrow ... they'll be screaming at me!
jmy77 Posted February 20, 2003 Author Posted February 20, 2003 Kickchic, If you want to have a little fun with your class try group push-ups. We used to do this in wrestling and whichever group lasted the longest got out of sprints. Separate your students into groups by size/weight. No group smaller than 3. When you have your groups separated, have them stand in a circle facing the same direction. Tell them to get down in a low push up position so that their chest is resting on the ground. At this point their shoulders should be on top of the next persons feet. Here is where the fun begins! Have them put their feet on upper back (between the shoulder blades) of the person behind them and the person in front of them puts his/her feet on their upper back. You may have to help them place their feet. Then, you guessed it - PUSH UP! When set up right the only body part touching the ground will be hands. You may also hear an ample amount of moaning, griping and groaning. But hey, you don’t have to like, you just have to do it. From here you can have them push up and hold, go halfway down and hold and so on. When you have them push up it is best to have them hold it for a moment so that weaker links in the ring can have time to get to the full up position. To make this a little clearer: You have Jeff, Joe and John all about the same weight. They stand in a circle facing the same direction. They get down into a low push-up position. Jeff puts his feet on John's back, John puts his feet on Joe's back and Joe puts his feet on Jeff's back. Feet should be between the shoulder blades. Then, keeping the body straight (no bent knees or body arcing) push up and hold. Enjoy! When they are strong in the full up position you can have them "walk" in a circle or do whatever creative variation you can think of. "Don't hit at all if it is honorably possible to avoid hitting; but never hit soft." - Pres. Theodore Roosevelt "You don't have to like it, you just have to do it." - Captain Richard Marcinko, USN, Ret."Do more than what is required of you." - General George S. Patton"If you have to step on someone else to stand tall, then you truely are a small person." - ?
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