The Best Push-Day Workout
An Ochsner Fitness Center trainer shares her favorite push-day workouts for chest, shoulders, triceps, quadriceps and calves.
Lisa Abramson
Fitness Center, Medical Fitness Liaison and ACE-Certified Personal Trainer
Lisa Abramson has been an ACE-Certified personal trainer for over 20 years. She is also a Mad-Dogg-certified spin instructor since 2017. She has taught a variety of group exercise classes over the past two decades. She is a medical fitness liaison, personal trainer and group fitness instructor at Ochsner Fitness Center.
She has a bachelor's in theater arts, and a master's in speech communication.
Lisa has been a triathlete for the past 20 years, returning to competition in 2020.
She believes that motivation begins within, finding the desire to be better today: "The secret of getting ahead is getting started." -- Mark Twain
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