How to Pump Up Your Push Up

(photos: Rebecca Greenfield)

Step One
Start in push-up position, your hands just inside the plane of your shoulders. Walk your feet up the wall, about a foot above the floor. Your body should form a rigid plank parallel to the ground. Squeeze your core throughout the move. With your feet still on the wall, do a single push-up, slowly lowering your chest to the floor and pressing back up.

Step Two
Next, keeping your spine and neck straight, walk your hands back toward the wall while stepping your feet up the wall until you’re in a handstand position.

Step Three
Keeping your toes on the wall, hold the handstand for a beat. Walk your hands back from the wall while stepping your feet back down the wall, returning to the start position. That’s one. Immediately start the next push-up.

By Mike Dawson

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