You have to do a push-up

I give every studio client homework.

And the one exercise everyone needs to be able to do is….

(insert groan)

A pushup.

One. Single. Pushup.

In 2006, when I did my STOTT Pilates training, I remember our instructor trainer saying that the most functional exercisefor aging was a Pilates pushup.

Why?

You don’t want to be her:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bQlpDiXPZHQ