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Keeping your elbows close to your sides will engage your lats more and stabilize your shoulders.

This four-move session will blast your pecs at home (or anywhere else).

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According to Alo Moves fitness instructor Roxie Jones, the push-up is one of the hardest bodyweight exercises. We asked Jones to break down common push-up mistakes and teach us how to do the perfect push-up to clear up any questions.

Strengthen your core and upper body by learning how to do a push-up and then challenge yourself further with these five push-up variations.

Done well, the push-up will give great strength gains and can be done anywhere at any time. But first, we need to make sure you can do one great repetition.

Chaturanga is part of most Western-style yoga sequences, but when done wrong it can lead to injury. Try this yoga push-up modification instead.