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The Walking Push Up is a fun change up to basic push up exercises. This exercise engages the core, while working the chest and shoulders. The walking push up is really multi-tasking body parts. Let me forewarn that it is easier to do these push up exercises on the toes than on the knees, you get more benefit from the exercise. Do a few good push up exercises, than a lot of bad ones.
The Walking Push Up- Get into a push up position, hands under your shoulders, and legs extended. Walk both hands to the right, do a push up. Walk both hands back to center, do a push up. Walk the hands to the left and push up. Walk back to center and work on another push up. Keep repeating these push ups from side to side to fatigue and believe me you will get fatigued!
Let me just throw in another quickie push up for you to try…Stagger your arms for a push up, one more in front of the other. Then do 8-10 push ups, you can really feel one arm isolating more than the other. Switch so the other arm is more under your body, than in front of it. You will feel the burn more intensely. Plus, these will help youbuild up strength for the one arm push up.
Give both of these push up exercises a try to keep things fresh and the muscles burning!
Well guys it’s time to start sculpting that upper body. A real good way to do that is with push up exercises. You can always start small, with knees on the floor. As your upper body gets stronger you can graduate to 1 arm push ups or even handstand push ups. It’s so much fun to watch your progression.
If you are like me, push up exercises can sometimes bother my wrists. They have
push up stands or grips you can buy to help with wrist issues. You could also hold on to a set of dumbbells, by placing them on the floor.
Push up exercises can also use both sides of the BOSU. Use a stability ball and walk your hands out forward. You could grab a smaller pilates ball and hold the ball in one hand push up and switch it to the other hand. Then there are triceps push ups, close grip, wide grip, standard push up exercises or even push ups against the wall. Vary your push up routine to increase your upper body strength!
We have talked about correct form when it comes to push up exercises. As you know, push ups are a great upper body exercise. Today, I’m going to introduce a couple variations of the push up to add and change up the routine.
One of our first push up exercises to try uses a stability ball. Lay across the ball and walk your hands forward on the floor so just your hips or thighs are on the ball. Arms are directly under
your shoulders. Gradually, lower your upper body down toward the floor, keeping the rest of your body straight, and belly button pulled into the spine. Then, exhale and push up. With this exercise, the less legs on the ball, the more difficult. For instance, if you just have your shins on the ball, the push up will be much harder. You will also require more of the abdominals for stability. When you are first starting out, keep the thighs on the ball, and gradually move forward off the ball.
Another great push up exercise uses a much smaller ball than the stability ball. Find a medicine 
ball, or a small pilates ball. Get into push up position, with the medicine ball under your right hand. This is an unstable surface so you will have to keep the abs tight for balance. The left hand is on the floor. Lower your body straight down, then exhale and push up. Do 8-10 with right hand on the ball, then 8-10 with left hand on the ball.
Instead of using the medicine ball, try putting one hand on a step (Reebok Step), other hand on the floor. This should be a little bit easier, because the step is a more stable surface. Don’t forget to repeat on both sides.
These couple of push up exercises are very challenging. So if your looking to kick up your workout a notch try one of these push up exercises!