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Medicine ball push-ups
Chest · Medicine ball
Sets, reps and RIR
Sets3 to 4
Reps8 to 12
RIR1 to 2
Machines and cables hold the path for you, so you can work closer to failure than with free weights.
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, Abs.
What it is called elsewhere
- Norsk Armhevinger på medisinball
- Svenska Armhävningar på medicinboll
- Dansk Armstrækninger på medicinbold
- Deutsch Liegestütze auf dem Medizinball
- Español Flexiones sobre balón medicinal
- Italiano Piegamenti sulla palla medica
- Português Flexão na medicine ball
- Русский Отжимания на медболе
- Français Pompes sur médecine ball
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.