Weight Training - Press Up On Bosu

Teaching points

• Kneel on all fours with the hands a little wider than shoulder width
  
• Straighten your legs out behind you so that your weight is distributed between your hands and toes
• Maintain a straight body throughout exercise
• Abs & Glutes should be tight throughout
• Bend the elbows outwards to lower the chest towards the floor
  
• Push back up to the starting position
• Bosu creates unstable environment

Variations & progressions

• To make the exercise easier, maintain the all fours kneeling position
• Push your hips forwards so that the weight is on the hands
• Perform in incline position
• Perform in decline position
  

Muscles worked

• Pectoralis Major
  
• Triceps Brachii
  
• Anterior fibres of Deltoid
  
• Serratus Anterior

Related injuries

• Pectoral strain

 

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