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
- Norsk Armhevinger med strikk
- Svenska Armhävningar med gummiband
- Dansk Armstrækninger med elastik
- Deutsch Liegestütze mit Widerstandsband
- Español Flexiones con banda elástica
- Italiano Piegamenti con elastico
- Português Flexão com elástico
- Русский Отжимания с резинкой
- Français 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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