Arms · Bodyweight · Compound · Beginner
Incline Push-Up Close-Grip
PrimarySecondary
- Main muscles
- Triceps
- Also working
- Chest, Shoulders
How to do it
- Stand facing a Smith machine bar or sturdy elevated platform at an appropriate height.
- Place your hands next to one another on the bar.
- Position your feet back from the bar with arms and body straight. This will be your starting position.
- Keeping your body straight, lower your chest to the bar by bending the arms.
- Return to the starting position by extending the elbows, pressing yourself back up.
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
- Floor Press · Barbell
- Floor Press with Chains · Barbell
- Incline Barbell Triceps Extension · Barbell
- JM Press · Barbell
- Kneeling Cable Triceps Extension · Cable
- Low Cable Triceps Extension · Cable
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