Exercise library / Shoulders
Pike push-ups
Shoulders · 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: Front delts.
Secondary: Triceps, Side delts.
What it is called elsewhere
- Norwegian Pike push-ups
- Swedish Pike push-ups
- Danish Pike push-ups
- German Pike Liegestütze
- Spanish Flexiones pike
- Italian Pike push up
- Portuguese Flexão pike
- Russian Отжимания домиком
- French Pompes en pique
Related shoulders exercises
- Overhead press (barbell)
- Seated overhead press (barbell)
- Push press
- Upright row (barbell)
- Landmine shoulder press
- Overhead press (dumbbells)
athlate logs this exercise, keeps the numbers, and tells you what you lifted last time.