Kinesiological anaysis of push up as strenghtening exercise

Abstract

The paper is about kinesiological analysis of three different styles of push-up by scanning of electric activity of selected muslces. This exercise was performed in three different wides of hands.

Surface electric muscle potentials were scanned and synchronized with videocamera from frontal position during those exercises. The aim of this study was to describe work of selected muscles by mentioned movement.

The results show the difference in coordination in these three modifications of push up.

Keywords

• strenghtening exercise
• push-up
• kinesiological analysis
• shoulder girdle