10 Ways to Adjust Your Press-Up for Easier Gains
The first move in your WFH training locker is more versatile than many credit it for. Try out this cheat sheet to remix your body-weight routine
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Even the best-laid workout plans can be quickly sent awry by the unpredictability of life. The after-work rush hour makes all but a square foot of the gym floor inaccessible; an impromptu team meeting means you can’t fit in your usual 45 minutes; a night of bad sleep means the idea of hauling yourself off for a morning squat sesh brings tears to your eyes.
That’s why it’s good to have a few bodyweight moves in your arsenal – the kind you can as easily deploy in your kitchen while waiting for lunch to heat up, as you can in the gym while waiting to use the 12kg dumbbells.
‘The humble press-up is a way to maintain your muscle-building routine wherever you are,’ says MH fitness editor Andrew Tracey. ‘And with multiple variations to choose from, boredom is not a factor.’ Switching positions allows you to dial the difficulty up or down and focus on different muscles. Here are 10 ideas to get you started.
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With almost 18 years in the health and fitness space as a personal trainer, nutritionist, breath coach and writer, Andrew has spent nearly half of his life exploring how to help people improve their bodies and minds.
As our fitness editor he prides himself on keeping Men’s Health at the forefront of reliable, relatable and credible fitness information, whether that’s through writing and testing thousands of workouts each year, taking deep dives into the science behind muscle building and fat loss or exploring the psychology of performance and recovery.
Whilst constantly updating his knowledge base with seminars and courses, Andrew is a lover of the practical as much as the theory and regularly puts his training to the test tackling everything from Crossfit and strongman competitions, to ultra marathons, to multiple 24 hour workout stints and (extremely unofficial) world record attempts.
You can find Andrew on Instagram at @theandrew.tracey, or simply hold up a sign for ‘free pizza’ and wait for him to appear.
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