[novakinblood]

The illustration for the air squat shows the worst possible form. The push-ups diagram looks incorrect too. I'm pretty sure the chest should touch the ground. What's the use of rapid succession if you are using bad form?

[shardling]

The nytimes illustration, or the original article?

[novakinblood]

The nytimes illustration. The subject keeps straight back in the original article. Doing this exercise wrong can really screw things up.

[jacques_chester]

NYT.

Illustrators don't know what they don't know. I don't hold that against them, especially if there's a sharp deadline looming.