Pushups

Chest · Bodyweight

How to do it

Hands slightly wider than your shoulders and under your chest line, not your shoulders. Body like a plank: glutes squeezed, ribs down, long neck. Lower until your chest brushes the floor with elbows around 45 degrees and push the floor away from you. You should feel chest and triceps, not your lower back. The classic mistake is the hips dropping before the chest: if that happens, brace harder or raise your hands.

Variants

The drawing shows one way of doing it, and the technique above describes that one. Almost every exercise has variants — standing or seated, the grip, the bench angle — and is still the same exercise: if you do it another way, write it in the exercise note and you will have it every time you train it.

Also works: Triceps, Core

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