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Staggered Push-ups for Functional and Overall Strength

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A staggered push-up is an anaerobic exercise that is a body weight movement performed in the prone position by bending your elbows at 90 degrees while your arms are used to help lower and raise your torso. The gravity and resistance that your body provides during this exercise creates functional and overall strength. Functional strength can best be defined as to effectively producing stabilization and movement to the body with daily activities. – PowerPoint PPT presentation

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Title: Staggered Push-ups for Functional and Overall Strength


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Staggered Push-ups for Functional and Overall
Strength By Shaun Zetlin
A staggered push-up is an anaerobic exercise that
is a body weight movement performed in the prone
position by bending your elbows at 90 degrees
while your arms are used to help lower and raise
your torso.
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Staggered Push-ups for Functional and Overall
Strength
The staggered push-up can be considered a
moveable plank since the core is utilized for
strength just as much as the upper body is during
performance. 
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Staggered Push-ups for Functional and Overall
Strength
This push-up builds lean muscle in the primary
movers of this exercise which are the anterior
and medial deltoid muscles, pectoralis major and
pectoralis minor muscles, triceps, and gluteus
maximus muscle. 
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Staggered Push-ups for Functional and Overall
Strength
The staggered push-up and the core should work
together in perfect harmony for optimal
performance when all of these specific muscles
are appropriately engaged.  
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Staggered Push-ups for Functional and Overall
Strength
They ones strengths into both assist in
utilizing eating the ideal exercise for so many
different forms of training techniques.
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Staggered Push-ups for Functional and Overall
Strength
The neutral spinal position can be defined as
when the top of your shoulders, mid-back, and
gluteus maximus muscles are all perfectly aligned
together. 
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Staggered Push-ups for Functional and Overall
Strength
The neutral spinal position creates efficient
movements for the body and helps develop optimal
posture.
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