 Hey everybody, I wanted to do a quick one on the muscles that are involved in the push-up Easy big ones that we can get out of the way the pecs obviously, right? So those get really tired when I do a lot of push-ups they help move the arm so that the whole body comes up Other big one that really extends the entire arm or the entire body up Is the triceps all three of those heads of that beautiful beautiful muscle on the back side of the arm Other major players it's still kind of a synergist, but it's still kind of a major player is the abdominal muscles So all of them the rectus abdominis even even though I bed mouth it a little bit It's still really important in getting a good position here We have the internal external obliques and the transversus abdominis that are more your lateral abs that Sort tend to be harder to find and I tend to spend more time queuing them Those are kind of the the biggest players now What are the the ones that I think should be on your mind? Well big one in the shoulder is the Serratus anterior. It's this muscle in your armpit. This is a synergist for a lot of different movements It's the reason that we can reach our arms overhead as they Or as we lift an arm up this muscle here This serratus anterior connects to the ribcage and the scapula and it swings the scapula Kind of outward and upward and it allows my arm to reach up overhead That lets me you know grab pots and pans from the top shelf even though I Kind of hope you're not putting a whole pot on the top shelf. That's probably not the best design So serratus anterior is really good I got to make sure that I cue that at the top of the push-up as I push away I'm pushing my whole body away, right? That helps me initiate with a stable scap rather than just kind of bench-pressing my body away That's a big one talked about the abs If I cue the exhale I get some of the deeper ab muscles a little bit more That transversus abdominis we talked about it's really important in timing for stability of the Low back if it turn it eat so spoiler alert if you're gonna read some of the research that Paul Hodges has done he has identified that these muscles even even tiny muscles in your spine like the Multifidae they turn on in anticipation of movement. So they actually stabilize you before you move It's really cool. And if I position them to where they can turn on more easily then it's gonna generally help me more Oh, yeah, the other one that I wanted to mention Is the bicep actually so the bicep is involved in the push-up seems weird, right? Because I'm not curling my arms. I'm not You know, it's not like a bicep car. I'm pushing my arms away The trick here is that the bicep crosses the shoulder and so it acts at the shoulder and it brings my shoulder from here to here Okay, and that is the bottom of the push-up So it kind of works with the pec in that way, but it also works with the tricep in that way It's very similar to how the quads and the hamstrings work when I do a squat, right? I stand up out of my squat my quads straighten my knee, but my hamstring straightens my hip Okay, in a push-up the tricep straightens my elbow and the bicep straightens my shoulder So those are the big ones. Let's see if I can name them all pec major a little bit of pec minor We got biceps. We got triceps. We got oh shoulder muscles, especially front of the shoulder those are big ones involved and the abs and you know all sorts of little stuff, so I hope you found that helpful or at least intriguing and Stay tuned for the next video