Awesome new move!

[Tallgirll22T]

I just found an awesome new move in a fitness mag I was reading. It hits a lot of different areas, plus it is fun because it is challenging to stay stable.

Anybody familiar with the dance move the Macarena? Basically just do that but while on the ground.

Get in push up position. Instead of lowering into a push up, touch your right fingertips to your left shoulder (while balancing on left arm and stabilizing your core.) Return right hand to start in push up position.
Repeat with left hand. Then touch your right fingertips to your left hip. Return to starting push up position, then repeat with left hand.
Then lower yourself to your elbows and forearms in a plank position. Repeat the alternating shoulder and hip touches.
NOW you can rest on your knees for a sec, but the rest of that time should have been off the ground, maintaining form. Pop back up into push up position and repeat.

I have been incorporating this into circuits. I usually do about four reps as fast as I can, then move on to the next move in circuit (or I guess you could call it a set?) And I do 3 sets or whatever, followed by some cardio and stretching. I really feel it in core and shoulders after doing this move, which are 2 areas I really want to increase strength in.

You're welcome and have fun!

[Boss Man]

I know about that craze, as it was all the rage for a time back in the 90's, but it was cheesy as all get up and I wouldn't be seen dead doing it and many other people wouldn't either.

However if you like doing it as an exercise form, that's perfectly fine, although if you'd admitted to doing line dancing, then we'd be chewing on a bone of contention for sure

[Tallgirll22T]

Nah, Boss Man, I'm a gun nut who lives out in the middle of nowhere, not a country music fan who line dances. Two totally different things.

[Boss Man]

Pity you cannot combine the two people and have a person that hates both line dancing and guns .

Although I'm sure pockets of such people exist in small enclaves in America somewhere

[Tallgirll22T]

How could you hate both? Line dancing only allows one to escape their problems temporarily. Guns everything forever! Woohoo!

[Boss Man]

I'm not sure permanently wounded Vietnam Vets might think along the same lines, however that's maybe a whole different ballgame for another time.

[fitoverforty]

Anybody familiar with the dance move the Macarena? Basically just do that but while on the ground.

Get in push up position. Instead of lowering into a push up, touch your right fingertips to your left shoulder (while balancing on left arm and stabilizing your core.) Return right hand to start in push up position.
Repeat with left hand. Then touch your right fingertips to your left hip. Return to starting push up position, then repeat with left hand.
Then lower yourself to your elbows and forearms in a plank position. Repeat the alternating shoulder and hip touches.
NOW you can rest on your knees for a sec, but the rest of that time should have been off the ground, maintaining form. Pop back up into push up position and repeat.

I tried it and I think it is a good variation from the standard plank.

I know about that craze, as it was all the rage for a time back in the 90's, but it was cheesy as all get up and I wouldn't be seen dead doing it and many other people wouldn't either.

I must get rid of those pictures of me buried in a photo album named " crazy 90's".......

not a country music fan who line dances.

actually the Macarena is a Latin line dance, not related to country music. That would be Boot Scootin Boogie - not that I would know about those kinds of things, being from Texas and all and being single thru the mid 80's early 90's....

But anyway..thanks for the exercise tip - I will use that for sure.