Exercise library / Chest
Wide 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: Front delts, Triceps.
What it is called elsewhere
- Norsk Brede armhevinger
- Svenska Breda armhävningar
- Dansk Brede armstrækninger
- Deutsch Breite Liegestütze
- Español Flexiones con agarre ancho
- Italiano Piegamenti a presa larga
- Português Flexão com pegada aberta
- Русский Отжимания широким хватом
- Français Pompes prise large
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.