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# Regular Pushups

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## Exercise Highlights
* Start in a plank on your tippy toes with shoulders over (or slightly ahead of) your wrists. Your chest should be directly above your thumbs.
* Keep the legs and butt tight.
* Make sure to keep your core tight so that the back doesn't arch and butt doesn't sag.
* Lower down straight from the top so that at the bottom of the pushup, your chest is still above the thumbs.
* Because your hands are right under the shoulders, elbow bend should be around 45-degrees from your body.
* Breathe for strength: Breathe in as lowering down and out as you push back to the top.

## Common Mistakes

* Weight going back into your feet causing your butt to creep up to the sky looking like the downward dog position.
* Hands placed too wide apart and elbows going out to the sides causing pressure to the shoulders and wrists as well as lack of power.
* Relaxed core causing arching of the back and collapse of your hips to the ground
* Relaxed shoulders... causing relaxed core... causing relaxed legs... total breakdown
* Looking down at your toes (chin tucked)which can decrease range of motion and creates bad posture and pressure in the neck.

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