 Today marks the beginning of a new exercise. Welcome to, I don't know what I'm calling this, lifting talk with Lance Goikey, that's me, and welcome to my living room and my girlfriend's lovely couch. Today we're starting the pushup. So what is the pushup? Basically it's thought of as a chest exercise, but I like to think of it more as a moving ab exercise. So yes, you are indeed working your upper body, your upper body muscles, and you can develop them pretty well with pushups. But if you're going to do them effectively, you need to have the right core position, middle position, and good scapular mechanics, scapular position, because that will keep your neck relaxed, it'll keep your back stable, it'll help you turn your abs on, and you can still get the training effect that you're looking for. So what's a pushup? Let me make sure I got a tight frame here today. Okay, good. So the pushup is pictured kind of like this sometimes. I know that's a little shallow, maybe it might go all the way down. Try not to bang that mic too much. But I like to do them in very particular ways. So if you're going to do this corrected, or correctly, first thing you got to do, I'm exaggerating my hip position here. First thing you got to do is round your low back. I'm trying to bring my stomach into my low back, okay? I get that. I can feel a little stretch in the front of my leg. I can feel my abs on the outer, lower oblique parts of my body. I'm going to hang on to that. If I can't feel that, just take a big exhale. Oh yeah, now I can definitely feel it. And then from there, I am going to pull myself down to the ground and push myself away from the ground, right? And then once I get to the top, I don't stop here. I need to make sure I finish with my arms long. I find this very particularly difficult, especially with my neck pain. But that's the idea, right? Pull myself down, push myself all the way away. And yes, I do that on every single one, every single rep. That little muscle that you get there helps support the scapula and helps prevent the scapula from winging off the rib cage. So if you're doing a push-up, it can become very therapeutic as long as you do it really well.