Push-up is a bodyweight calisthenics exercise that is typically performed on the floor or on the ground.
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Especially shoulder pain and mobility can prevent some seniors from performing push-ups comfortably.įortunately, there are variations that require much less strength and allow you to improve your mobility and strength gradually until you can perform a full push-up. This makes it a great and effective compound movement to improve functional strength.īy far the biggest fallback of push-ups for seniors is the fact that they require quite a bit of strength, mobility and body control to perform correctly. Push-ups also require you to stabilize your whole body by contracting your abdominal muscles, glutes, and legs. It uses all the pushing muscles of your upper body, including the pectoral muscles, the triceps, and the shoulder muscles. The push-up is the most natural pressing exercise in the horizontal plane. It doesn’t activate the pectoral muscles optimally to improve horizontal pushing strength. The shoulder press is the perfect counterpart for the lat pulldown as a movement pattern but it has one significant shortcoming.
The lat pulldown is a great upper body exercise that activates almost the whole upper body but mainly targets the pulling muscles of the upper back and the biceps in a vertical plane. Last time in my exercise bank -series I wrote about the lat pulldown for seniors. But are they good for seniors? Read on to find out. Push-ups are a simple bodyweight exercise that improves your whole upper body strength.
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