A "Perfect" Push up

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Registered: 03-20-2003
A "Perfect" Push up
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Tue, 08-02-2005 - 9:02am
I learned so much really cool stuff this weekend--this is one of the easy ones.





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Registered: 03-26-2003
Tue, 08-02-2005 - 9:08am
What a great idea! What w/s was this one?
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Registered: 03-20-2003
Tue, 08-02-2005 - 11:34am
It was Mindy Mylrea's Burly Bar.





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Registered: 10-27-2003
Tue, 08-02-2005 - 12:20pm

That's actually a really good idea, I bet your tkd school and mine could use bo staffs instead of body bars. I never thought of that...gonna have to call the instructor to let him know before I forget.

Paula

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Registered: 03-20-2003
Tue, 08-02-2005 - 12:56pm
That's the beauty of it--anything would work.





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Registered: 03-26-2003
Tue, 08-02-2005 - 2:40pm
I wish I had taken that w/s. Our aerobic director would never approve of us trying the pull ups. She would say it is way too dangerous.
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Registered: 03-20-2003
Tue, 08-02-2005 - 2:48pm
It's not a full body pull up. It's a slanted pull up so you walk your feet way out beyond where your hands are





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Registered: 03-15-2004
Wed, 08-03-2005 - 9:17am

I'm trying to visualize this and having a bit of a hard time. From what it sounds like, this will only work with military (straight leg) push-ups, yes?

Do you lay the bar between the shoulder blades so it's running parallel to the length of the body? And it doesn't fall off?

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Registered: 03-20-2003
Wed, 08-03-2005 - 11:08am
It runs along the length of the body, so it runs from the head to just past the glutes (depending on how tall you are). It would probably work with push ups on the knees, but you'd have to have someone holding it because it would stick out beyond the glutes.

Jean,