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Many people want to have lean abs, broad shoulders and prominent pectorals, for the simple reason that it looks good. Others may desire these so that they can be better athletes or dancers.
If you want to start getting a nice even complete upper body workout all you need to do is pushups. The plank position you are in while performing a pushup actually activates the core muscles near your abdomen, which will tighten and tone the waist.
While the pushing motion up and down is going to obviously impact your triceps, pectorals and trapezius. All you have to do is start doing 100 pushups each day.
If you can do this for a single month you will have real noticeable difference. Do not be concerned if you can't do more than twenty in a single session that is alright.
Break it up throughout the day and whenever you get a chance do as many as you can. During a thirty minute lunch break do twenty pushups, get a good morning start with twenty pushups and after work find three times to do twenty more.
When you break it down into smaller increments it really doesn't seem nearly as daunting, but you still are going to get the same benefits. There is one thing to watch out for though, and that is the trainer's most dreaded nightmare: the plateau.
When continuously working with the same exercise your body is going to get used to it and develop an immunity to muscle development, this will happen within about a one to two weak period. To avoid the plateau you have to slightly mix up your pushups every week or so.
For the first week do regular pushups, with your hands square to your shoulders and do them nice and easy with your face looking forward not down, and try to keep your spine as straight as possible to get maximum impact on the abdomen. Come week two, start doing plyo-pushups.
These are where you push against the ground and you try to clap your hands in the air before you catch yourself in pushup position again. These are going to develop awesome triceps that are very powerful.
Week three go with the triangle pushups, where you hold your thumbs together while touching pointer fingers. This is going to put more pressure into the back than the regular pushup will, but don't worry all of these are predominately going to work the pecks.
For the final week try finding an incline put your feet up higher than the head. This is going to be a pain, but if you can work through each of these pushups for four weeks, you will have pecs that would make Adonis marvel. Destry Masterson is an author who has written hundreds of articles. She publishes articles for http://www.nordictrack.com and recommends them for treadmills.
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