Build your Strength for a Better Swimming Performance Wherever You Are (Push-Ups)

Do you want a “dry-land exercise” which will benefit your swimming performance without having to go to a gym? Don’t worry! Starting today I will periodically post exercises which you can do in total autonomy wherever you are.

Let’s start with the PUSH-UPS.

If you’re wondering what I am talking about, it’s probably because you just heard the term “push-ups”. In fact it is common practice to define the bending as flexion, even if these are two different movements:

– when bending the arms (elbows), the hands are resting on the floor or on something higher, such as a wall-mounted pull-up bar or a bench.

– during flexion, the hands don’t have any support, but encounter another type of resistance (barbell or dumbbell). The movement used in the classic exercise for biceps, barbell / dumbbell curls exercise for biceps, involves the flexion of the arms.

But, which muscles are stimulated through this exercise? Many would immediately mention the PECTORALIS MAJOR. In fact, this is a synergistic action in which are involved more muscles groups. The muscles involved are the PECTORALIS MAJOR – TRICEPS – SHOULDER, and, to maintain the correct position of the body, the CORE muscles.

Surely, the main muscle trained is PECTORALIS MAJOR.

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