Do a Wall Push Up

Exercising is very important if you want to have and maintain a healthy body. Push ups are an excellent way to strengthen the muscles in your arms, shoulders, and chest, but conventional push ups off the floor are too difficult/strenuous for many people. Using the wall instead of the floor makes it easier to lower and lift yourself, allowing you to build muscle strength without the risk of back pain or falling on the floor. Whether you are pregnant, have arthritis, chronic pain, or just have not toned your muscles enough for standard push ups, doing wall push ups are a great alternative to get you back in shape and feeling your best.

1. Doing Wall Push Ups- geometry dash

Get your footing and hand placement. Proper stance and positioning is important for doing a wall push up. If you are too close to the wall, you won't get a proper workout and could potentially hurt your back. If you're too far from the wall, you could risk falling to the floor or hurting your back from arching it uncomfortably. Positioning yourself may require you to lean slightly, so make sure you're ready to perform the wall push up once you're in place.

While facing the wall, stand just over one arm's length away.

For most people, a comfortable stance will probably be between 12 to 18 inches (30 to 45 centimeters) away from the wall.

Your body should create a 45-degree angle when you place your hands against the wall.

Keep your feet shoulder-width apart.

Put the palms of both hands flat against the wall at shoulder height, approximately shoulder-width apart.

Lower yourself against the wall. Controlled movements are important in this (or any) form of push up. If you let yourself drop too quickly, you could lose your balance, yet moving too slowly could cause you to get tired out very quickly.

Keep your feet planted firmly on the floor. Do not lift or shuffle your feet at all while doing push ups.

Slowly bend your elbows while keeping them at your sides and lower your upper body towards the wall (without hitting yourself against it, of course).

2. Lower yourself to a count of four. That is generally a safe span of time in which to drop down during a push up.

Breathe in while you are lowering yourself. It is much easier to inhale while you are doing the "easier" portion of an exercise motion and to exhale on the strenuous component.

Keep your back and hips straight as you lower yourself.

Pause when your chest and/or chin is touching the wall. One or two seconds should be sufficient.

3. Lift yourself back up. Once again, a slow and well-controlled motion is crucial during wall push ups, and that includes when you are lifting yourself back up. Do not hurry or you could hurt your back, shoulders, or elbows.

Exhale as you begin to push off the wall and hold your elbows in at your sides.

Lift yourself up to a count of two. You should not need as much time as you took lowering yourself since there is not as much risk of hitting the wall while returning to your start position.

Continue to keep your feet firmly planted with your back and hips straight throughout the push up.

The push up is complete when you have completely returned to your starting position. Make sure that you do not lock your elbows once your arms are fully extended or you could injure yourself.

4. Repeat. By now, you have completed a wall push up with the proper form and positioning. But you will not build any muscle by doing one single push up! It's important to work out in sets with a predetermined number of repetitions per set in order to get the most out of your workout.

10 to 15 push ups is a good number of repetitions in a given set.

Rest for one or two minutes after finishing your first set. Then, if you're able to, try to do another set of 10 to 15 push ups.