Push-Ups - Close Triceps Position

TricepsBodyweightIntermediateCompound
Push-Ups - Close Triceps Position — start position
Start
Push-Ups - Close Triceps Position — finish position
Finish
Muscles worked
PrimaryTriceps
SecondaryChest, Shoulders

How to do it

  1. 01

    Lie on the floor face down and place your hands closer than shoulder width for a close hand position. Make sure that you are holding your torso up at arms' length.

  2. 02

    Lower yourself until your chest almost touches the floor as you inhale.

  3. 03

    Using your triceps and some of your pectoral muscles, press your upper body back up to the starting position and squeeze your chest. Breathe out as you perform this step.

  4. 04

    After a second pause at the contracted position, repeat the movement for the prescribed amount of repetitions.

In the app

Push-Ups - Close Triceps Position needs no kit, so it appears whenever the day's window has room for it. Loads come from Rule 3 (Loads rise when earned, read from RPE, graded strong) and climb on the reps you actually did.

If a machine is taken the engine swaps a same-pattern movement and says why.

Same pattern, with kit

Same movement pattern, same primary muscles — swap by what you have.

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