Decline Push-Up

Start

Finish

How to do it

Put your feet on a chair or box with hands on the floor under the shoulders, then lower your chest to the floor and press back up without letting the hips pike.

Muscles worked

Primary: chest · Also works: front delts, triceps, core

Equipment

No equipment

Common mistakes

• Piking the hips up to make the press easier
• Feet so high that it becomes an overhead press for the shoulders
• Letting the lower back arch when the core gives out

Variations

• Feet on a low step
• Decline push-up with a two-second pause

Can't do this one? Swap it for

• Push-Up
• Incline Dumbbell Press
• Barbell Bench Press

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• Barbell Bench Presschest
• Dumbbell Bench Presschest
• Push-Upchest
• Machine Chest Presschest
• Incline Dumbbell Presschest
• Cable Flychest