Press Up
Upper Body: Horizontal Push
Fundamentals
Level: 5
Press Up Plank Hold
Upper Body: Horizontal Push
Corrective
Level: 3
Target Action: Dynamic
Upper Body
Kit: Body Weight
The shoulder is a highly mobile joint and is often the victim of poor posture, low levels of strength and poor transfer of energy through the kinetic chain.
Horizontal Pushing is one of the 4 foundation upper body Exercise Categories and includes classic lifts such as Bench Pressing, Press Ups and Bench Throws.
Of the 4 upper body Categories, we can use the Horizontal Pushing progressions to establish good postural understanding in our athletes before layering in challenges of load, speed and decreasing constraints on high quality coordination. The most fundamental skill developed here is centering the humeral head in the glenoid fossa and all other Scapula Skills (protraction, upward rotation, elevation and depression) in this training system grow out of this primary athletic quality.
The Corrective Theme is the initial phase of a 4-part movement hierarchy.
This Theme contains exercises which promote good movement quality first. Here we expose range of motion deficits & poor coordination that will derail progression & transfer of training. Exercises in the Corrective Theme stimulate reflexive stabilisation in optimal postures at priority joints with dynamic control that will scale to support more complex exercise variations.
