Strength · Horizontal press · Bodyweight
Wide Push-ups
Wide Push-ups is a strength exercise with your bodyweight that mainly works the chest, with help from the front delts and triceps.
How to do it
- Hands about twice shoulder-width, fingers forward
- Body in a straight line, abs tight
- Lower until the chest is just above the floor
- Press up and squeeze the chest at the top
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
- Front delts
- Triceps
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 wide 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.