Chest
Bodyweight Push-up
Place your hands slightly wider than shoulder-width apart. Engage your core and keep your body in a straight line from head to heels.
- Equipment
- No Equipment
- Difficulty
- Beginner
- Focus Area
- Chest
- Injury risk
- Low
Primary muscles
- Pectoralis Major
Secondary muscles
- Triceps
- Anterior Deltoids
- Core
Target muscles
- chest
How to perform
- 1
Place your hands slightly wider than shoulder-width apart.
- 2
Engage your core and keep your body in a straight line from head to heels.
- 3
Lower your chest towards the floor by bending your elbows.
- 4
Push yourself back up to the starting position.
- 5
Repeat for desired repetitions.
Safety & form
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