Floor press! Work your chest and arms in the exercise of the day.
The floor press works chest primarily, and arms help. This is a great exercise to do in generally, and especially if pushups are pretty difficult for you. It will help strengthen your chest and eventually make pushups easier.
- Start on the ground on a comfortable and stable surface.
- Grab your light dumbbells to start. Roll back with them, and lay with your torso flat, and knees bent. Feet are on the ground.
- Your elbows will be at an angle from your torso. They aren’t straight out to your side.
- Press up in the shape of a Christmas tree, and stop before the dumbbells touch.
- At the top, they should be above your chest, not your face or bellybutton.
- Throughout the whole movement, keep your shoulders pulled down away from your ears.
- Progress through this movement here, bending and straightening the elbows.
When you are done, pull your dumbbells in to your torso, and roll up or to the side, instead of just plopping the dumbbells to your side one at a time. That is hard on your shoulders.
Your goal is 10 reps. You can do it!!
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