Exercise library / Chest
One-arm 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, Triceps.
Secondary: Front delts, Obliques, Abs.
What it is called elsewhere
- Norsk Enarms armhevinger
- Svenska Enarmiga armhävningar
- Dansk Enarms armstrækninger
- Deutsch Einarmige Liegestütze
- Español Flexiones a una mano
- Italiano Piegamenti a un braccio
- Português Flexão com um braço
- Русский Отжимания на одной руке
- Français Pompes à un bras
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.