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Have you ever seen a child do a push up?

Kids doing pushups. It's hilarious.


I'd put pictures but it would be of other people's children, so I am thinking that would not be so awesome. Instead I had my son pose.

From my observations of those new to our karate class and warmup, the kids' pushups fall into a few different categories:

The bottom in the air

Picture of kid demonstrating the wrong form for pushup, bottom in the air
What not to do - pushup with bottom in the air

That's what the top of the motion looks like when they do this. The bottom of the motion is closer to more what the start position should be!


The hip on the floor

In this one, the hips and top of thighs stay on the ground but the elbows bend. So that's good, the elbows bend? It's not correct, but at least the elbows bend?
Picture of kid demonstrating the wrong form for pushup, hips on floor
What not to do - pushup with the hip on the floor

The head bob

I don't have pictures of this one. Liam got tired of doing pushups incorrectly and was highly suspicious of me taking pictures so he declined to do more.

"Mama are you going to show people pictures of me doing the wrong thing?"

"No son, I would never."

Anyways, in the head bob, the body stays the same, but the head bobs down and up, maybe they think they are fooling the instructors? I don't know.

I have a hard time not giggling when I see the little arms and bodies in all sorts of positions.

In general though kids can do pushups safely without straining their backs with good form. Livestrong has some tips for kids doing pushups. What I've seen work is to have them practice standing up and pushing back against a wall. Move to planks, pushup on knees then a proper pushup.

Am I bad for laughing at kids?...Naaah!

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