Push-up
- Muscle group
- Chest
- Primary muscles
- Chest
- Secondary muscles
- Front delts, Triceps
- Place your hands on the floor directly under your shoulders and extend your legs straight back, so your body forms a straight line from your head to your heels.
- Keeping your core tight and elbows slightly tucked, lower your body until your chest nearly touches the floor.
- Push through your palms to extend your arms and return to the starting position.
Tips
- Before you begin, tuck your pelvis slightly so your hips are level with your shoulders and ankles, forming one straight line from head to heels.
- Keep your elbows angled back toward your hips rather than flaring them out to the sides as you lower your body.
- Exhale as you push back up so your breathing supports a steady, controlled tempo through each repetition.
Common mistakes
- Letting the hips sag toward the floor during the descent so the body is no longer in a straight line.
- Pushing the hips up into the air so the body forms an inverted V shape instead of remaining level.
- Lowering only partway so the chest does not approach the floor, leaving the range of motion incomplete.
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