Chest · Other · Compound · Beginner
Suspended Push-Up
PrimarySecondary
- Main muscles
- Chest
- Also working
- Shoulders, Triceps
How to do it
- Anchor your suspension straps securely to the top of a rack or other object.
- Leaning into the straps, take a handle in each hand and move into a push-up plank position. You should be as close to parallel to the ground as you can manage with your arms fully extended, maintaining good posture.
- Maintaining a straight, rigid torso, descend slowly by allowing the elbows to flex.
- Continue until your elbows break 90 degrees, pausing before you extend to return to the starting position.
Swaps on other equipment
Each has the chest as its main muscle and is also a push, on a different piece of equipment.
Other chest exercises
- Smith Machine Incline Bench Press · Machine
- Standing Cable Chest Press · Cable
- Straight-Arm Dumbbell Pullover · Dumbbell
- Svend Press · Other
- Wide-Grip Barbell Bench Press · Barbell
- Wide-Grip Decline Barbell Bench Press · Barbell
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