Glenn Dawson shows why most people get shoulder pain from push-ups and how to fix it. Place your hands two hand-widths behind a marker, start on your knees, and think about pushing the ground down instead of pushing yourself up. This activates your serratus muscles and keeps your shoulders safe.
Most people do push-ups wrong and it leads to shoulder pain, discomfort, and they just suck at them. In this episode, I'm going to show you how to do them correctly. Welcome to the At Home Body Restoration Project, where we focus on resetting and restoring you back to your best self. Before we dive in, you have to be able to do push-ups to do this video, so you might have to start on your knees. It's going to be all right. Proper form is better because you have longevity, the joints in alignment, you're growing the right muscles. First thing you're going to do is grab a marker of some sort. I'm going to use this yellow band. Now this is going to tell us where to put our shoulders, so I'm going to measure back 2 hand places from my band. So as you can see here, now on my second hand, so one hand away, I'm going to push out just outside my mat. And this is just basically going outside my shoulder width. For you, depending on your mat size, you might be inside the mat, outside the mat, whatever. Right now my thumbs are on the mat. Now your marker is going to be where your nose goes. So you're going to line it up with your knees first and then push up. You want to keep your whole body stable and drive through the pecs and the elbows. If you've proven that you could do it on your knees, lift the knees, go straight from the toes and focus on pushing the ground down instead of pushing yourself up. Push the ground down and you'll use your serratus and the muscles around your shoulder blade and take pressure off the front of your shoulders.
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