Exercise library / Chest
Clapping push-ups
Chest · Bodyweight
Sets, reps and RIR
Sets3 to 5
Reps6 to 15
RIR1 to 2
Load is fixed, so progress by adding reps first, then by slowing the lowering phase, then by adding weight.
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 Klappearmhevinger
- Svenska Armhävningar med klapp
- Dansk Armstrækninger med klap
- Deutsch Klatschliegestütze
- Español Flexiones con palmada
- Italiano Piegamenti con battito di mani
- Português Flexão batendo palma
- Русский Отжимания с хлопком
- Français Pompes claquées
Related chest exercises
- Bench press (barbell)
- Incline bench press (barbell)
- Decline bench press (barbell)
- Close-grip bench press (barbell)
- Landmine press
- Flat dumbbell press
athlate logs this exercise, keeps the numbers, and tells you what you lifted last time.