The Cobra Push-Up Your How To Guide

Cobra Push-Ups Introduction

Are you ready to combine the Cobra Yoga Pose and the classic push-up?

Cobra Push-Ups are a stretching exercise for your lower back that also adds in some light arm work. It will also help to stretch your groin, abs, and hip flexors but to a lesser degree.

This exercise is a helpful way to warm up before you begin a lifting routine.

You can also use them in a calisthenics training regime.

Cobra Push-Ups will also help you to learn part of the movement pattern for the Divebomber Push-Up.

The Divebomber Push-Up is essentially the Jackknife(Pike push-up), and the Cobra Push-Up combined into one advanced movement.

Cobra Push Ups How To

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• Lay face down on the floor with your thighs and chest flat on the floor.
• Put your hand's palms down onto the floor under your shoulders.
• Your lower body is to stay flush on the ground as you breathe out as you extend your elbows to push your upper body off of the ground (do not use your torso and hip area to help push-up).
• Once your arms are fully extended Hold for a count of five seconds. Breath in as you lower your upper body back to the ground.
• You have now completed one repetition.

• Muscles Worked

• Triceps
• Shoulders

• Muscles Stretched

• Abdominals (Secondary)
• Hip Flexors (Secondary)
• Groin (Secondary)

Benefits

• Stretches muscles in your shoulders, chest, and abdominals.
• Can help to decreases stiffness in your lower back.
• Strengthen your arms and shoulders.
• Increases flexibility.

The Cobra Push-Up has a difficulty level of beginner. I like to use it as a warm-up exercise/stretch to help loosen the muscles in my lower back.

If you want to progress to the Dive Bombers Exercise practice this exercise and Jackknife push-ups.

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