Increase your strength with alternating lizards

• May 3, 2024

Lizard exercises or alternating push-ups are bodyweight exercises. This type of physical exercise uses the own weight of a person as part of his training routine to obtain a greater gain of strength and mass in certain muscles of the body.

The lizards are exercises of flexion that allow to work and strengthen the muscles of the upper train, especially pectorals, shoulders, triceps, and deltoids, among other muscles such as the abdominals and the back.

The variety of exercises of lizards is large enough to strengthen certain muscles on others, and contemplate the different levels of difficulty presented by the exercises, such as the alternate lizards.

As part of the Program More Life Less Kilos from GetQoralHealth , Salvador Garayzar, specialist in functional training of Sport City , teaches you a routine of alternated lizards and step to strengthen abdomen, arms and increase strength and coordination:

These exercises they are a body relative strength test within all training routine , so it is about advanced lizard exercises.

If you are strong enough in relation to your weight , you can move it without problem and have a more effective control over your center of gravity, so that you will gain speed in the movements and you will reduce the risk of suffering an injury.

If you want to make your lizard exercises more productive, while descending the body, alternate use only the right hand with the left foot and vice versa. By reducing the points of support, your stability will decrease and the difficulty will increase.

Remember that for you training routine be functional, the key is not to over-demand and fulfill all your series. To increase your relative body strength, you must concentrate on repetitions as much as on completing the training .

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