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Pump Up Your Pushups - Ep 10 - Brides Made Fit

Hello. Welcome to Brides Made Fit podcast. I’m your host, Jennifer Didonato and this is episode number 1. Now, Brides Made Fit is Metro Detroit’s only in-home personal training for brides to be but the podcast is made for everyone. It is your source for health and fitness information, the latest exercises and just tips for your fitness life. Now, in case you have not noticed, we are in a different arena. We are in my gym in my basement so these are all my toys and all my gadgets that will help get my clients fit and hopefully get you fit soon. Now in this episode, we’re going to talk about how to do a pushup correctly. I’ve seen a lot of people doing certain things that could injure them with pushups, so I’m going to bring all of that back into head and have you guys doing a pushup correctly. Number one is the position of your hands. A lot of times, I see people widening their hands when they do a pushup. Now, this is fine if you’re strong already. This just puts a lot of pressure on the shoulder if you’re new with the pushups. So, what I am going to have you do is put your hands just directly underneath you and directly parallel to your shoulder. Come down, exhale, keep the elbows in tight and keep the back straight. Now, this may feel a little challenging to you since you may be used to doing the pushup with the wider stance. So, feel free and go on your knees to take a little bit of pressure off and still keep your hands and your palms under your chest. And another thing that I want you to look forward to is, a big no-no is sticking your butt up when you do the pushups. I don’t want to see any of these and I don’t want any of these. I want you to keep your back nice and straight like a table and like there’s a glass of water on your back that you don’t want to spill. That’s a good thing to keep in mind. So now that we know how to do a pushup correctly, let’s mix it up a little bit. There’s so much you can do with push ups in your own home. You don’t have to go anywhere. All you need is something that you can elevate your feet. So, if you don’t have a workout step like this, you can use—this step is cool or a really big phonebook. We don’t use this phonebooks anymore. We’re online. I do sometimes and my fiancée makes fun of me so let me know if you guys use one because then you won’t fit on the door. So, we’re going to put our feet up here like this and we’re going to put our hands in a position that I just taught you directly under the shoulders, come down, exhale the way up. These are decline pushups and this is targeting a little bit higher of your pack major which is your major abs muscle and a little bit of your shoulders as well. You see, because if you’re doing a pushup, it’s just straight up and down. You’re targeting the muscles. But this way, when you either elevate your feet or elevate your torso, you are hitting the muscle in a more unique way that you’re not used to so that’s where you get the full form and full figure of the muscle. And ladies, you may think that all who needs to do pushup on a girl, but the chest is one of the biggest muscle group of the body. So, if your not working at the chest, that means that that muscle is not to its fullest potential and it’s not burning as many calories as it could. So, doing chest is perfectly fine. Girls, you’re not going to get bigger boobs, I’m sorry obviously, and you’re not going to get smaller boobs either but this is going to make them nice and perky. So, think about that when you’re 50 years old. You want to do the pushups now to have a nice firm and perky bosoms. Another, a great pushups that you can do which hits the triceps and this is great for brides. If you’re getting married within the next few months or in a year, I definitely highly recommend this. Try it in your knees. These are called diamond pushups. You can zoom it right here. Take a look at my hands. I’m making a nice diamond with my index fingers. Down, place it down, bring the knees back, come straight down. Pushup. It just targets the triceps and also the chest. How awesome that is. And I want you to push through this portion of your hands to really isolate the triceps. Just try maybe about eight of those or even five. I know that they may be pretty challenging for you to start. And then, let’s get the hang of it, bring your feet straight out under you. Now, another pushup that you can do is the inclined pushup. We just did a decline earlier. Hands right under the shoulders, feet out, down and up. Like I said, you can use a stool or use a foam. Now to mix this all up into something really unique, you can also give it levels. Have one hand up here while the other is down here. I’ll try it on the side first so you could see. I still want your arms to curl unto each other. Go straight down and up. So obviously, my right arm is getting a little bit more grunt of the weight. What this is doing is that it is building endurance because we are doing with the knees at about ten repetitions. We’re going to switch on to the other one and you’re going to notice that you’re going to get really fatigue very quickly on the side that you started where most of your weight is on. So, on the right side, start hard on that one. This is really good with the heart rate going, you got a little sweat going and you’re really working the chest. And, what I want you to do is combine these with the diamond pushups. I’ll demonstrate. Here, down, center diamonds, and bring it back down, and back up. Now with these, I want you to do five on each sides. So your going one, one, one, come back in the middle, and two, two, two, back in the middle, three, three, three, and so on. Do five of them. Go on your knees if you can. I want you to try that for this week and let me know what you think. Email me at jenny@bridesmadefit.com. But also, I have a question for you. I know why you guys started all these out. It’s going to be a little bit new. So, to take your mind off the exercise for a moment, I have one question for you. I want you in my comment section of this podcast to tell me, what is your favorite food that you cannot live without in the whole world if you’re stuck in an island? Let me know what that favorite food. I’m just curious because I like food and I know that sometime that that can be a big obstacle when getting for our results with the fitness. So, try these out. just give me eight to ten repetitions, three sets, rest in between, go on your knees if you have to and let me know how it feels. And now, you can find this podcast on bridesmadefit.com of course. But also, you can find this on iTunes. You can subscribe on iTunes, keyword, brides made fit. You can also start on my blog as well. I have a little button right there. And then also, iTunes. We’re everywhere so you just can’t get rid of us. There are more on YouTube. So much of it. So, YouTube, iTunes, Brides Made Fit Blog, and if you want to get even greater workout, you want me to train you one-on-one, you can call me at 888_MADEFIT. Thanks so much for joining us this week. I’ll be looking for your comments on your podcast blog on bridesmadefitblog.com. So, we will see you next week. I am Jenny Didonato.

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Hello. Welcome to Brides Made Fit podcast. I’m your host, Jennifer Didonato and this is episode number 1. Now, Brides Made Fit is Metro Detroit’s only in-home personal training for brides to be but the podcast is made for everyone. It is your source for health and fitness information, the latest exercises and just tips for your fitness life.

Now, in case you have not noticed, we are in a different arena. We are in my gym in my basement so these are all my toys and all my gadgets that will help get my clients fit and hopefully get you fit soon.

Now in this episode, we’re going to talk about how to do a pushup correctly. I’ve seen a lot of people doing certain things that could injure them with pushups, so I’m going to bring all of that back into head and have you guys doing a pushup correctly. Number one is the position of your hands. A lot of times, I see people widening their hands when they do a pushup. Now, this is fine if you’re strong already. This just puts a lot of pressure on the shoulder if you’re new with the pushups. So, what I am going to have you do is put your hands just directly underneath you and directly parallel to your shoulder.

Come down, exhale, keep the elbows in tight and keep the back straight. Now, this may feel a little challenging to you since you may be used to doing the pushup with the wider stance. So, feel free and go on your knees to take a little bit of pressure off and still keep your hands and your palms under your chest. And another thing that I want you to look forward to is, a big no-no is sticking your butt up when you do the pushups. I don’t want to see any of these and I don’t want any of these. I want you to keep your back nice and straight like a table and like there’s a glass of water on your back that you don’t want to spill. That’s a good thing to keep in mind.

So now that we know how to do a pushup correctly, let’s mix it up a little bit. There’s so much you can do with push ups in your own home. You don’t have to go anywhere. All you need is something that you can elevate your feet. So, if you don’t have a workout step like this, you can use—this step is cool or a really big phonebook. We don’t use this phonebooks anymore. We’re online. I do sometimes and my fiancée makes fun of me so let me know if you guys use one because then you won’t fit on the door.

So, we’re going to put our feet up here like this and we’re going to put our hands in a position that I just taught you directly under the shoulders, come down, exhale the way up. These are decline pushups and this is targeting a little bit higher of your pack major which is your major abs muscle and a little bit of your shoulders as well. You see, because if you’re doing a pushup, it’s just straight up and down. You’re targeting the muscles. But this way, when you either elevate your feet or elevate your torso, you are hitting the muscle in a more unique way that you’re not used to so that’s where you get the full form and full figure of the muscle. And ladies, you may think that all who needs to do pushup on a girl, but the chest is one of the biggest muscle group of the body. So, if your not working at the chest, that means that that muscle is not to its fullest potential and it’s not burning as many calories as it could. So, doing chest is perfectly fine. Girls, you’re not going to get bigger boobs, I’m sorry obviously, and you’re not going to get smaller boobs either but this is going to make them nice and perky. So, think about that when you’re 50 years old. You want to do the pushups now to have a nice firm and perky bosoms.

Another, a great pushups that you can do which hits the triceps and this is great for brides. If you’re getting married within the next few months or in a year, I definitely highly recommend this. Try it in your knees. These are called diamond pushups. You can zoom it right here. Take a look at my hands. I’m making a nice diamond with my index fingers. Down, place it down, bring the knees back, come straight down. Pushup. It just targets the triceps and also the chest. How awesome that is. And I want you to push through this portion of your hands to really isolate the triceps. Just try maybe about eight of those or even five. I know that they may be pretty challenging for you to start. And then, let’s get the hang of it, bring your feet straight out under you.

Now, another pushup that you can do is the inclined pushup. We just did a decline earlier. Hands right under the shoulders, feet out, down and up. Like I said, you can use a stool or use a foam.

Now to mix this all up into something really unique, you can also give it levels. Have one hand up here while the other is down here. I’ll try it on the side first so you could see. I still want your arms to curl unto each other. Go straight down and up. So obviously, my right arm is getting a little bit more grunt of the weight. What this is doing is that it is building endurance because we are doing with the knees at about ten repetitions. We’re going to switch on to the other one and you’re going to notice that you’re going to get really fatigue very quickly on the side that you started where most of your weight is on. So, on the right side, start hard on that one. This is really good with the heart rate going, you got a little sweat going and you’re really working the chest. And, what I want you to do is combine these with the diamond pushups. I’ll demonstrate.

Here, down, center diamonds, and bring it back down, and back up.

Now with these, I want you to do five on each sides. So your going one, one, one, come back in the middle, and two, two, two, back in the middle, three, three, three, and so on. Do five of them. Go on your knees if you can. I want you to try that for this week and let me know what you think. Email me at jenny@bridesmadefit.com. But also, I have a question for you. I know why you guys started all these out. It’s going to be a little bit new. So, to take your mind off the exercise for a moment, I have one question for you. I want you in my comment section of this podcast to tell me, what is your favorite food that you cannot live without in the whole world if you’re stuck in an island? Let me know what that favorite food. I’m just curious because I like food and I know that sometime that that can be a big obstacle when getting for our results with the fitness.

So, try these out. just give me eight to ten repetitions, three sets, rest in between, go on your knees if you have to and let me know how it feels. And now, you can find this podcast on bridesmadefit.com of course. But also, you can find this on iTunes. You can subscribe on iTunes, keyword, brides made fit. You can also start on my blog as well. I have a little button right there. And then also, iTunes. We’re everywhere so you just can’t get rid of us. There are more on YouTube. So much of it. So, YouTube, iTunes, Brides Made Fit Blog, and if you want to get even greater workout, you want me to train you one-on-one, you can call me at 888_MADEFIT. Thanks so much for joining us this week. I’ll be looking for your comments on your podcast blog on bridesmadefitblog.com. So, we will see you next week. I am Jenny Didonato.

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