On the downward phase the tip of your chin or your chest specifically your sternum should touch the ground or hopefully your exercise mat.
Should you touch the floor doing a push up.
Of course you should only go for the full range of motion if you have the mobility and strength to do it properly.
By doing this you place excess strain on your shoulder joints and you do not want any threat dealt out to your connective tissue.
You have to touch your chest to the floor for that push up to count well i am here today to tell you that very rarely should a person go that low in a push up.
Sometimes i don t touch the floor is it better form if you do or is it the not neccessary.
I mean a push up should have your chest touching the floor or arms at a 90 degree angle.
You don t actually have to lift your hands up but if doing so at the bottom of your push up would require some wingardium levi oh sa action i e.
Once your chin touches the floor push yourself back up in a fluid motion and stop when your arms are fully locked out.
I am sure you have heard it before.
You are not all the way to the ground then you can stand to go lower.
If you push yourself too far before your body can really get into position safely.
Your ring push ups should match at least 80 of what you get with standard push ups.
When i do push ups i keep my head looking straight forward or to the side and go down until my chest and upper abs slighty touch the floor and then get up.
You should be able to pick your hands up off the floor at the bottom called a hand release push up in the crossfit world.
Test how many push ups you can do on rings and compare it to normal push ups.
If you use push up handles in order to use a neutral grip they should produce nearly the same exact range of motion and push up mechanics as you d get when performing them on the floor.
If you re somehow able to get a larger stretch and produce significantly greater range of motion when using push up handles you ll want to examine your form.
Inability to do so signifies issues in form and function suggesting that faulty mechanics are being used on standard push ups.