Pushups

ChestBodyweightBeginnerCompound
Pushups — start position
Start
Pushups — finish position
Finish
Muscles worked
PrimaryChest
SecondaryShoulders, Triceps

How to do it

  1. 01

    Lie on the floor face down and place your hands about 36 inches apart while holding your torso up at arms length.

  2. 02

    Next, lower yourself downward until your chest almost touches the floor as you inhale.

  3. 03

    Now breathe out and press your upper body back up to the starting position while squeezing your chest.

  4. 04

    After a brief pause at the top contracted position, you can begin to lower yourself downward again for as many repetitions as needed.

In the app

Pushups 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.

With barbell
With bodyweight
With dumbbell
With machine

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