Bodyweight exercises are one of my favorite type of exercises to build lean muscle mass and to become physically fit (inside and outside). When you become proficient and efficient on certain bodyweight exercises, you will be strong and solid. You will look strong because you are strong. This is one reason why I enjoy the Tacfit Commando System. It utilize various bodyweight exercises to develop and enhance your physical fitness.

Push-ups are one of the best upper body exercises. Rather than increasing your repetitions on these exercises, you can (and should) get into more compound and complex exercise movements. Once you get a solid core foundation of the basic push-up movement, you should try the scorpion push-up. You want to have a solid chest, shoulders, and triceps development that is strong and sturdy. Then (and only then), you can add another simple movement (the scorpion) to your push-up movement to create a compound movement. This will make your routine challenging which will develop your neurological and muscular system.

The scorpion push-up is done like a regular push-up. On the downward movement, you want to raise your right leg by bending your right knee (your bottom leg will look like a scorpion tail). Then, when you are at the bottom of the exercise movement, you have the right foot touch the floor on the left side. You want to keep your right knee bent at a right angle. Then, you will repeat this on the left side. Here is the breakdown of the scorpion push-up:

* You start off at the top of the push-up movement. Keep you hands and feet firmly planted and your core tight. As with most of these exercise movement, you want to keep the back straight (and not arched).

* We will start on the right side. As you go down, you raise bend the right knee which makes your right leg look like a scorpion tail.

* When you are the bottom of the movement, you want to have your right feet touch the left side. The side next to your left leg. It would seem that your right leg is “stinging” like the floor like a scorpion.

* As you contort your body to bring the right leg over, you want to shift your body weight a bit to the left side which means your left shoulder will be absorbing that extra weight.

* You want to keep the shoulders close to the body and your elbows close and compact. This will protect your shoulder and elbow joints.

This is the scorpion push-up. It is a compound movement of the push-up and the scorpion.