Hi everyone! In order to develop and define your muscles in the most efficient way possible, you want to incorporate as many muscles into an exercise as possible.
This is not only the most efficient way to build and define your muscles, but typically because there are many muscles involved, there is significantly more coordination required and coordination almost always calls for balance and muscular endurance.
Therefore, you not only work and define your muscles but you also work on improving your balance and endurance.
None is more true than the exercise I am going to present to you today.
Not only does it almost work your entire upper body but you need to use a lot of balance through core strength and muscular endurance to get to 10 to 15 reps.
This type of exercise should be incorporated at the start of your workout prior to your muscles being pre-exhausted.
Ok, so lets get right into it! This is an exercise I like to call the 1 Leg Wall Core Push Up.
Its an elevated push up that not only works your chest, shoulders and triceps but has the added benefit of working out your core by incorporating an ab exercise into the mix.
To get started, put yourself in a push up position and put your two feet up against the wall.
As you lower yourself down to the bottom push up position, bring one leg forward, taking it off the wall.
As you move to the top push up position, move your leg back onto the wall.
Repeat the exercise, however this time, take the other foot off the wall and bring it forward.
Try it out and you will see that you not only get a killer chest, shoulder and tricep workout, but that your abs really get a workout too! Try and do 10 to 15 reps.
If you can't get it right away, don't give up.
These type of exercises take time for your body to develop all the muscles to get it right.
Maybe when you try it you can only do 1, 2 or 3, but trust me, if you keep at it, you will soon be up in the 10 to 15 rep range in no time!