Decline Push-Up

Chest · Bodyweight

How to do it

Feet up on a bench, hands on the floor slightly wider than your shoulders. The higher the feet, the more weight you carry and the more the work shifts to upper chest and shoulder. Hold the line from head to heels and lower until your chest brushes the floor. You feel it high on the chest. The classic mistake is piking the hips up so you do not have to go as deep.

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: Shoulders, Triceps

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