push ups

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There are push-ups and then there are Tony Horton's push-ups, which might involve medicine balls, might involve balance balls, might involve scuttling from sphinx pose to plank pose, then up, then down, then back again, summoning your muscular reserves as if they were flagging troops in battle.

It seems like everybody wants to get fit, yet far too many people go about it the wrong way. They join a high class gym, buy the cool workout clothes, and then spend more time socializing than exercising.

And, when they do finally get down to actually pushing some weight, they stop too early before the real burn begins.

So, if you fit either of these two categories, check out the advice below to better your workouts.

The Exercise "Do"

They begin gathering around Madrona Playground's picnic tables and restroom before dawn, quietly talking and stretching until 6 a.m., when they start hauling sandbags, running stairs and doing shoulder blade push-ups.

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