 Hello everyone, today we're talking about knee pushups or pushups from your knees. This is a good regression for people who maybe don't have the upper body strength or the core strength to support the longer lever kind of a traditional variation that we see. But there are still mechanics things that I want to consider while I'm doing this and I want it to look as similar to the traditional pushup as I can. So if I'm in a traditional pushup, I'm going to tuck my hips, I'm going to reach my arms long at the top to get a nice curvature of my lower back or my upper back. Similar principles apply with the knee pushup. What people tend to do is they take stress off their knee by sticking their butt out. That kind of flattens my knee out and then they try to do it this way. It's okay to start there. It's not very good for most of your body but it is a good way to limit the amount of load that you have to put on your upper body. So it can be a good stepping stone for people. That is something I bet you probably if you watch a lot of my videos didn't think I was going to say. Ideally though I want some sort of pad under your knees so it doesn't hurt so bad unless you're sick like me and you just want to do it anyway. I'm looking for a straight line from knee through the hip all the way to my shoulder. So the problem that we are seeing in the previous variation that we just discussed, my hip does not cross that line from my knee to shoulder. It's behind the line that my knee and shoulder make like this. So if I were going to fix that I would do this and I would bring my hips forward and I might even need to scoop my hands forward a little bit there and then as I come down I have that. So I have a shorter lever. It's not quite so hard on my arms and I can hang on to this. Now I got to make sure I keep my tuck so that I have my abs. Good and there we go. Still trying to finish with the arms long. That's so hard for me. Finish with the arms long at the top of this thing and you do your prescribed number of reps for your prescribed number of sets. Knee push-ups are great. They can be very very useful. I do like inclined push-ups. Stay tuned. We'll talk about that some other day. But the knee push-up is a nice variation when you don't have equipment right. Maybe you the hard part about an inclined push-up is you need a whole rack and you need to set a bar there and the bar doesn't have any weight on it so people take it from you. It's kind of a pain in the ass. The knee push-up variation is a nice modification that only requires a small square of real estate. So if you're going to do them though try to do them really well. Try to do them with your hips forward. Try to find those lower outer abdominals and try to reach your arms really long when you get to the top.