Exercise library / Chest
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, Abs.
What it is called elsewhere
- Norwegian Armhevinger
- Swedish Armhävningar
- Danish Armstrækninger
- German Liegestütze
- Spanish Flexiones de brazos
- Italian Piegamenti sulle braccia
- Portuguese Flexão de braço
- Russian Отжимания от пола
- French Pompes
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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