It’s very easy to get clients asking for core strength but rarely someone will ask for more exercises for arms. Why?
To train your abs you will instantly find lots of reasons to hide your unhappiness with your belt line and knows the benefits of no more lower back pain or better posture, however, to say you don’t like the shape of your arms sounds vain and not an appropriate topic in class.
Don’t be shy! We all want to change something in our body and doing the correct exercise you can achieve big goals.
Push-ups, for example, they work the triceps, pectoral muscles, and shoulders. When done with proper form, they can also strengthen the lower back and core by engaging the abdominal muscles.
Researchers believe that a stronger core aids your upper body in exercises like push-ups and you can build your levels up using the Reformer Box or kneeling on the carriage facing the footbar.
Benefits of Push-ups on Reformer Pilates equipment:
- It is a Compound Exercise: you can train lots of muscle groups at once very efficiently which eliminates the need to do various exercises for each muscle group
- A Cardiovascular Workout: your heart has to workhard to pump oxygenated blood throughout your whole body to keep all of those muscles going.
- Back Benefits: they force you to engage your back muscles in order to keep you straight and upright.
- Stronger Shoulders: push-upskeeps your shoulders in motion, making them more flexible and keeping their mobility as high as can be.
Your body moves as a chain (often referred to as the kinetic chain), but that chain is only as strong as its weakest link. If your core is weak, full-body movements and other exercises, including push-ups, will suffer.
When your core is strong, however, your kinetic chain is stronger, and that helps you perform more repetitions in good form, which helps improve strength and endurance throughout the body.
You can start anytime by doing 3 sets of 10 push-ups per day and you will see the results fast!
