 Hello everybody, this is Lance Coyke. Today, we are doing our 291st consecutive video. This one is about the pushup and specifically we're talking about a variation. So this one is the eccentric pushup. Eccentric is a type of muscular contraction. It just means that your muscle is stretching while you're loading it. So for this, I'm lowering slowly on my way down. Now why would I use this? So you're looking for the long lowering because generally it's not generally all the time it's easier to lower yourself than it is to push yourself back up, okay? Your ability to produce force is actually higher while the muscle is getting longer. And plus you don't have to overcome the gravity. You can kind of just go with it. So this one's good if you're trying to do your first pushup. I really like eccentric pushups for getting you to learn the stiffness. What is that? Okay. Anyways, I'm gonna take my glasses off. We're gonna show you an eccentric pushup. So I set up, tuck my hips and kind of bring my neck away from the ground. And then from here, I'm gonna come up into this pushup position and I'm just gonna lower myself over about eight seconds or so and then pause and relax, okay? And you kind of kneel back up and you set up again. I'm gonna do the whole thing. So I tuck my hips, bring my neck away from the ground and I come down slowly. Eight seconds is just kind of like my guide. Pause and then relax. You can do five. You can do a five count. You can do an eight count. You can do 13. You can do one whole minute of lowering. It's something to vary based on your abilities. So I might start someone to the first one, maybe a five count and then I'll make sure those five counts are actual seconds, which is generally a lot longer than counting to five. Then we might step up to eight, then maybe 10. And it depends on how you look. You might just go for doing your first pushup. If you need more input on doing your first pushup, then check out my doing your first pushup video. I don't remember what it's called, but first pushup. So yeah, I would do this to kind of load this upper body, this pushup pattern, especially if you're not able to do a whole pushup. The other idea is I can do eccentric pushups as a sort of drop set. So if you're into the bodybuilding world, I need to force a couple extra reps, force a little bit more fatigue into my muscle. I might do a set of normal pushups and then on my last one, it looks like, crap, and then I might go right into just a lowering. And then I might even do another one. Go right away, go right away, go right away. So the idea there is go quickly before your muscles recover and build up that fatigue so that you get that growth stimulus. E eccentric pushups are an actual great variation. I can't believe it took me 91 videos to think of filming something about it. If you have questions, leave them in the comments below.