Wide push-ups for chest

Wide push-ups targeting Chest.

Hey guys. This is Shantanu, for Fitness tips Today I'm going to show you how to do a wide grip push up. Obviously wide grip has to do with your hands, so that just means where you're placing your hands. They're going to be a lot wider than they would be if you were doing a close grip push up. The reason for that is, when your hands are wider, you're going to be working the bulk of your chest. Hands are closer, you're going to be working a little more shoulders, triceps, and your chest as well. If your goal is to get the bulk of your chest, the wide grip push up is going to be the best. Follow me. This is our positioning. Straight body, like a plank. Not sinking, not piked up. Hands are going to be outside of your shoulder width, and we're just coming down. Up. Down. Up. In terms of width, it's all dependent on how much stress you want to put on your chest. If I want to come out here, I can. What it does is, it's just going to limit my range of motion. That's all. You can go as far wide as you want to, and get the same desired result. A lot of times I you can switch between wide and close grip. For a wide grip like this, I try to bang out somewhere between 20 to 30 push-ups at a time, and do them in sets of maybe 3 to 4. So what that would take me to is 120 to 140 push-ups in a pop. We're still on our wide grip push-ups. The one thing I want to stress to you guys is, there is a limit where you're going to be doing no good for your chest, and putting too much stress on your shoulders. When you start to feel like you're no longer able to contract your chest, and your tension is here, that's when the problem arises. We want to make sure it's wide but still close enough that you can control this, and you're not feeling your shoulders bowing, in your press. We want to work the chest, but we want our shoulders to be healthy. Remember that, and be moderate.

why dips if those elbows out and it's not a bad idea and it certainly isn't wrong because it's very effective but it comes with one simple caveat which is that when we're doing this there's  potentially a lot more stress and strain on our shoulder joint and in the martial arts we use this type of position to hurt our opponent we have our bars we've got all sorts of ways we can crank them really cause a lot of shearing stress on the shoulder and it's not always there but it is potentially there and your brain naturally things okay stress in a joint decrease the neurological drive to work your muscles more effectively your brain will always inhibit your neurological Drive if there's pain or even discomfort there and one of the best ways to make your muscles work harder is to make your joints more comfortable now this idea that your muscles work to add duct forearm is certainly true but it's also a little bit short-sighted because what it's doing this is assuming that we only use our muscles in one plane of movement that's the frontal plane but we also of course have the sagittal plane front to back and it's not even just that because we don't move in just one plane of movement kind of like if we have a blocky torso like a Lego minifigure but of course you can soar so if you look down from the top it's not square or blocky it's round it's oval and circular which means that your chest muscles not only work for abduction but also flexion because it's wrapping your chest muscles around your torso so that's why my approach has long been instead of focusing on this to optimize your chest muscles pull your arm back and then forward and slightly inwards at the same time now you have flexion and abduction at the same time which can potentially bring more workload to your muscles especially

 if you're using things like single arm based training or working on an unstable equipment like gymnastic rings or my suspension straps because now what you're doing is whatever you do single arm or unstable training gravity makes you want to make your arm go out and you have to keep constant tension in your chest to maintain adduction so instead of causing the abduction primarily we're maintaining a deduction while using the flexion so we're using the chest muscles to provide tension in multiple applications not just one this not only can potentially make your chest work a hell of a lot harder it's also a ot safely on your shoulder joint because if this and the martial arts is about how it's hurting my shoulders if you want to protect yourself you keep it in tight you keep yourselves tight and secure producing more security here removing that neurological handy that prevents you from working just that extra little bit of Herbert in order to make your muscles work a lot more this perspective really changed how I trained my chest now also took a lot of stress off of my shoulders it was a total game changer for me and I hope it can be for