Joy of Push-ups

Push-ups are a great exercise. If you find them intimidating, start with a modified version, which will work your chest and triceps muscles.

You can do the "from the knees" variety, or push from a counter top or from the wall. Read the transcript from the link below to find out how to do push-ups against a wall. Start by doing a few of whichever variety you can, and build up from there. Eventually you can graduate to the "from the toes" version, which works the core as well as the chest and arms.

http://www.mayoclinic.com/health/mo...push-up/MM00735

Article about push-ups:
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/03/11/h...r=1&oref=slogin