Arms · Bodyweight · Compound · Intermediate
Close-Grip Push-Up off of a Dumbbell
PrimarySecondary
- Main muscles
- Triceps
- Also working
- Core, Chest, Shoulders
How to do it
- Lie on the floor and place your hands on an upright dumbbell. Supporting your weight on your toes and hands, keep your torso rigid and your elbows in with your arms straight. This will be your starting position.
- Lower your body, allowing the elbows to flex while you inhale. Keep your body straight, not allowing your hips to rise or sag.
- Press yourself back up to the starting position by extending the elbows. Breathe out as you perform this step.
- After a pause at the contracted position, repeat the movement for the prescribed amount of repetitions.
Swaps on other equipment
Each has the triceps as its main muscle and is also a push, on a different piece of equipment.
Other tricep exercises
- Close-Grip Barbell Bench Press · Barbell
- Close-Grip Dumbbell Press · Dumbbell
- Close-Grip EZ-Bar Press · EZ Bar
- Decline Close-Grip Bench To Skull Crusher · Barbell
- Decline Dumbbell Triceps Extension · Dumbbell
- Decline EZ Bar Triceps Extension · Barbell
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