Planking with weights is some of the more challenging plank exercising. This push up and rotate with weight plank is no different.
HOW TO…
- Take the dumbbells in your hands, and position yourself into a push up position.
- Slowly push yourself up into a high plank position.
- Lift one arm off the floor. Rotate your upper body and stretch the arm upward. Keep looking at your lifted hand, facing upward as well.
- Rotate all the way until you are in a T-Plank position.
- Hold for 2 seconds.
- Next, slowly move your arm back down and rotate your upper body back to a high plank position.
- Switch sides and repeat.
Note: There are a few options regarding the use of the dumbbells in the push up and rotate with weight exercise. Doing a push up on the dumbbells is more difficult, but it allows you to move throughout the exercise in one go. The single arm plank then also has to be done on the dumbbell.
Alternatively, you can do the push up with your hands on the floor. Once in the high plank position, pick up the dumbbell and do the rotation.
Variation: Too difficult? Try the exercise without weights first. To learn how to do the push up check out the basic push-up video.
Goal: Aim to perform the push up and rotate at least 5 times on each side.