The most common exercise on the bars is push-ups, they are done by everyone who trains on street sports grounds. Exercise is affordable and seems simple at first glance, but this does not mean that it is safe. Pushing on the uneven bars, it is easy to make a mistake and, instead of increasing strength and improving physical fitness, get a painful injury and a long rehabilitation period without playing sports. Consider the pros and cons of push-ups on the bars, what danger they hide in themselves.
Pumps on the bars are so popular because of their high efficiency, the results from them come faster than when performing conventional pumps from the floor. There are bars in every street sports complex, except that they will not need anything, it makes exercise accessible. But with the wrong approach, it will become really dangerous.
Push-ups on the bars should not be approached thoughtlessly and rush to perform them without learning the technique. The most common mistakes are to go down lower than necessary and stay at the top longer than necessary, fully extending your arms. Both errors lead to sprain of ligaments on the hands.
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Push-ups on uneven bars and injuries
The main reason is inexperience. When a person begins to push on the bars, he notices pronounced improvements in the state of the muscles of the chest. These muscles stretch, become more mobile. The further you go down while running – the better the chest will stretch, but the beginner should not do this, because his hands are probably not ready for such loads. If you fall too low, the risk of injury to the ligaments of the shoulder and clavico-acromial joint will increase, this is in the area where the clavicle and scapula converge.
That’s not all, incorrect execution of push-ups on the uneven bars will harm the elbow joints. The lower you go down – the higher the load on the elbows, so it is important to ensure that the angle of the elbow is not less than 90 degrees.
Too strong bending of the elbows will lead to various problems from mild discomfort to true arthrosis, with all the ensuing consequences.
For many, the most vulnerable area are the wrists, even professional athletes suffer from it. In this case, the entire weight of the body falls on them, the wrists are fixed in one place in one position, but they perform very difficult work. In order not to take risks, before trying push-ups on the bars, you need to ask yourself to strengthen the wrists and not stop this process until exercises with such a load are present in the program. Athletes often to perform push-ups on bars and other complex exercises wrap the wrists with elastic bandages, this is done to reduce discomfort, but does not compensate for the lack of preparation.
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