Arms · Bodyweight · Compound · Intermediate
Push-Ups - Close Triceps Position
PrimarySecondary
- Main muscles
- Triceps
- Also working
- Chest, Shoulders
How to do it
- Lie on the floor face down and place your hands closer than shoulder width for a close hand position. Make sure that you are holding your torso up at arms' length.
- Lower yourself until your chest almost touches the floor as you inhale.
- Using your triceps and some of your pectoral muscles, press your upper body back up to the starting position and squeeze your chest. Breathe out as you perform this step.
- After a second 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
- Overhead Triceps · Bodyweight
- Parallel Bar Dip · Other
- Pin Presses · Barbell
- Reverse Band Bench Press · Barbell
- Reverse Grip Triceps Pushdown · Cable
- Reverse Triceps Bench Press · Barbell
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