Strength · Horizontal press · Bodyweight
Push-ups
Push-ups is a strength exercise with your bodyweight that mainly works the chest, with help from the triceps and front delts.
How to do it
- Hands under the shoulders, body in a straight line
- Brace the abs and glutes so the hips do not sag
- Elbows at about 45° from the body
- Chest all the way to the floor, then press up
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
- Chest
Also
- Triceps
- 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 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.