Strength · Horizontal press · Bodyweight
Diamond Push-ups
Diamond Push-ups is a strength exercise with your bodyweight that mainly works the triceps, with help from the chest and front delts.
How to do it
- Hands together under the chest, thumbs and index fingers in a diamond
- Body in a straight line, abs tight
- Elbows close to the body as you lower
- Chest to the hands, press up with the triceps
In Sets Ahead
Sets Ahead starts you on 3 sets of 5–8 reps with 3:00 rest. When every set reaches 8 reps, add 2.5 kg, or 5 lb if you train in pounds of extra weight, or keep adding reps.
Muscles worked
Mainly
- Triceps
Also
- Chest
- Front delts
Joints it loads
- Shoulder some
- Wrist some
With an injury here, the app warns you before this exercise.
Log it in Sets Ahead
Sets Ahead works out your next set of diamond push-ups, and every other lift, from your own numbers.
Test it before releaseSimilar exercises
The same movement, done another way: what the app suggests when you swap.