Press Up Challenge

Hi Free Fitness Gym Members,

Today could not be more simple, so get your gym gear on and give this little workout a try. All we are going to do today is press up pyramid training. The goal is to do 10 press ups...short pause... then 9 press ups...short pause... then 8 press ups. The aim is to keep this going all the way down to 1 press up. Then once you have done this try and go back up the pyramid by doing 2 press ups...short pause...then  press ups. Keep this going all the way to 10.

This workout should not take long but will start to generate some great improvements to your upper body strength. Most people will not be able to go all the way through at first, and this is fine. Keep practicing and you will get there. If you are able to do the entire workout which amounts to 99 press ups in total the try and change the tempo. Have fewer

We promise if you stick with this and try this workout once a week, you will start to see improvements in your upper body strength. Press ups are compound exercises, ie they work multiple muscle groups at the same time

Try and complete as many full press ups as you can by keeping the knees of the ground. Then when you can go no more bring your knees to the ground and do half press ups keeping the pelvis forward. And when you tire of these you can then try box press ups on your knees sticking the backside out, as this is one of the easiest forms of press up.

Once you are able to complete the full 99 press ups, you can try and change the technique. For example if you are doing wide arm press ups which focus more on the chest, you could change these to tricep press ups (or military press up) which focus more on triceps (the muscle on the back of your upper arm).

So give it try and let us know how you get on...Push yourself and time how quickly you can complete all 99. Then try again on another day and try and beat that time.

Good Luck