Pike Pushups
For pike pushups, start off by positioning yourself as you would for a standard
pushup.
The goal here is mainly work the shoulders, not the chest, so you should not position your hands much wider than shoulder-width apart. While keeping your legs fairly straight, take a few small steps to bring your feet towards your hands. From here, bend at the elbows to lower your upper body towards the floor.
Lower yourself until your face is almost touching the floor, then push back up to the starting position.
Tips
* This exercise works the shoulders (mainly the anterior deltoid) as well as the triceps. The clavicular head of the pectoralis major and the serratus anterior contribute to the movement as well.
* As is true for all pushup-movements, the wider the hands are placed apart, the more the chest will be worked. As a result, you should keep your hands about shoulder-width apart to really feel the effort in the deltoid, as previously mentioned. Placing the hands any closer together than this will mainly work the triceps.
* The closer your feet are placed together, the more difficult it becomes to balance yourself and the more the abdominal core will be called into play to stabilize the body.
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