Push-up
Step by step
How to perform
- Maintain a straight line from head to heels, keeping your core engaged and hips in line with the rest of your body.
- Begin to lower your body towards the ground by bending your elbows, keeping your elbows close to your body for more strength.
- Continue to lower yourself until your chest or chin touch the floor, or as close as you can get without compromising your form.
- Push your body up back to the starting position, fully extending your arms but without locking your elbows. This completes one push-up.
Overview
About this exercise
Push-ups are a comprehensive bodyweight exercise that strengthens the chest, shoulders, triceps, and core muscles. They are suitable for people of all fitness levels as they can be modified to increase or decrease difficulty. Individuals would want to perform push-ups to improve upper body strength, enhance core stability, and increase muscle mass without the need for any gym equipment.
Coaching cues
Form tips
Your hands should be slightly wider than shoulder-width apart, and they should be in line with your shoulders or slightly below. Placing your hands too far forward, too wide or too close together can put unnecessary strain on your shoulders and reduce the effectiveness of the exercise.
To get the most out of your push-ups, you should aim for a full range of motion. This means lowering your body until your chest (or at least your chin or nose) touches the floor and then fully extending your arms on the way up.
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