Firm Your Flab Zones

Pec Lifters

Basic move: One-legged push-up

• Come into push-up position with knees on the ground.
• Extend your left leg behind you to form a straight line from your head to your heel.
• Bend arms until elbows are level with shoulders; push up and return to starting position.

Intermediate: Modified push-up tap

• From kneeling push-up, bend arms so elbows are level with shoulders.
• As you push up, reach left hand across chest and tap right shoulder.
• Return your hand to the ground and go back to the starting position.
• Repeat with your right hand.
• For a challenge, do the move in full push-up position.

Advanced: Balance push-up

• Come into one-legged push-up position with left knee on ground; extend left arm out to the side and slightly behind body at shoulder level.
• Balancing on left knee and right palm, lower chest toward the floor.
• Complete reps and repeat on the opposite side.

 

Originally published in Fitness magazine, May 2005.