Great coaches and coaches don't steal. You just take something that was there and name it after you. Yoga too pagan for you, how about mobility? Circuit training also YMCA-y for you, how about CrossFit? Dance for you, how about Zumba? CrossFit to CrossFit-y for you, how about F45? We could go on forever because it goes on forever.
However, during the Great Pandemic of 2020, trainers and trainers were left in the dust by a simple invention that seemed to come from nowhere. No dumbbells, no problem. No dumbbells, no problem. No kettlebells, no problem. You have a floor? Yes? Good, because you can push it away with your arms and get GAINZ!
The push-up is the push-up that we have all been waiting for
Everywhere, trainers and trainers have discovered pushups, also called pushups. Without a gym where the jealousy of the equipment is expressed, our fitness gurus rely on people to do what people have always done.
Pushups were invented in the later prehistoric period when the first people started to sleep on their stomachs and were forced to quickly push themselves off and run from the cave floor so as not to be eaten by a saber-toothed tiger or velociraptor.
It could have been both, but it happened very often. After a while, the prehistoric man – the faster you pushed yourself off the ground, the faster you could start running – doing pushups to improve the speed of escape inside the trunk.
After extraterrestrials came to Earth and ate all saber-toothed tigers and velociraptors, the need for pushups just disappeared and no one did this on Instagram until sometime in February 2020 when the first trainers who were at home before pushups and were invented took three minutes to explain the complications to get them right.
Pushups are king
Joking aside, pushups are your strength and conditioning rescue right now. And we are not overwhelmed to patronize you with push-up knowledge bombs. Below are a number of videos from Breaking Muscle's YouTube channel that could be helpful.
In addition, you can try this 8-week push-up strength and strength training plan.
We are all a little upset that we are not lifting as much weight as we would like. So let's look at a push-up variant with some dumbbells. Like most addicts, we need this update.
Then there is the sliding thing. You can probably find a number of videos on social media where people slide push-ups with rags on a polished wooden floor. They work and keep their place clean. It's hilarious. We wish we had thought of it first. Not.
If you don't like our snarky tone, you definitely have to try Coach Shane Trotter's videos and training programs. He is a good man and a great instructor.
A surefire way to do everything about strength is, of course, to slow it down. Temp training not only kills time, but also ensures effective strength building. The simplest movement with little or no weight can be a challenge.
And finally, cardio is great. Running may not be an option and you may not have a treadmill or rowing machine, but Spiderman pushups are the next best. Do it at a brisk pace and it will open those lungs. Do it slowly and in a controlled manner and it will open these joints.
Hope all these pushups keep you healthy. Stay healthy. Stay safe.