Exercise library / Chest
Banded push-ups
Chest · Band
Sets, reps and RIR
Sets2 to 4
Reps12 to 20
RIR0 to 2
Bands give the least resistance where you are strongest, so chase reps and control, not load.
RIR means reps in reserve: how many you could still have done when you racked it. RIR 2 is two short of failure.
Muscles worked
Primary: Chest.
Secondary: Triceps, Front delts.
What it is called elsewhere
- Norwegian Armhevinger med strikk
- Swedish Armhävningar med gummiband
- Danish Armstrækninger med elastik
- German Liegestütze mit Widerstandsband
- Spanish Flexiones con banda elástica
- Italian Piegamenti con elastico
- Portuguese Flexão com elástico
- Russian Отжимания с резинкой
- French Pompes avec élastique
Related chest exercises
- Bench press (barbell)
- Incline bench press (barbell)
- Decline bench press (barbell)
- Close-grip bench press (barbell)
- Landmine press
- Flat dumbbell press
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