Home Workout Series - Chest

In this episode of our Home Workout Series, Russ will show you three chest exercises.

The first one you are all familiar with, the pushup. When you get down to do your pushup, you want to make sure you keep your core engaged, nice and tight. Your arms are shoulder width apart, and you want to keep your body straight. You do not want to arch this way or this way when you do them. When you come down, come down, slow, push up, down, and push up. You can change the variation of the exercise by either elevating your feet or elevating your torso. That will change the angle in which it targets your chest. Make sure that you keep your body straight and your core engaged and do them slowly. 

The next exercise I want to show you is with the anchor on the door, and one half of the tension strap. What you are going to do here is you are give yourself enough tension where you can take your tension strap, and you can pull it in a half circle. And when you do, you want to tighten up this chest muscle. You want to get enough of a stretch when you pull it, you want to tighten up the chest and then back again, pull it towards you, and back again. You are going to have to keep your core tight. Keep your body straight. You can bend your legs slightly to keep your balance. The key here is to not pull it in. You want to pull it around.

The last exercise I want to show you is with the anchor in the bottom of the door, one half of your band attached to it. You want to start off where you have preload in the tension behind you. You want to stand, anchor your feet with your legs slightly bent, and you want to pull in an upwards motion. Then come back. You are pulling to about your chin level, and you are tightening your chest as you come up. Make sure that you have enough tension in it. Make sure that you are far enough ahead of the door. If you are back here, you do not get the tension right from the onset.