Incline Pike Push-Up
Push · shoulders · beginner
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FinishHow to do it
Put your hands on a chair or low table and walk your feet in until your hips are stacked high over your shoulders, then bend the elbows to lower the crown of your head toward the seat and press back up.
Muscles worked
Primary: shoulders · Also works: triceps, upper chest
Equipment
No equipment
Common mistakes
- Letting the hips drift back toward a plank, which turns it into an incline push-up for the chest
- Flaring the elbows straight out to the sides instead of tracking them at about 45 degrees
- Looking forward and craning the neck rather than letting the head travel down between the hands
Variations
- Hands on a lower step each week
- Three-second lowering phase
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Related exercises
- Standing Overhead Pressshoulders
- Pike Push-Upshoulders
- Dumbbell Lateral Raiseshoulders
- Shoulder Controlled Rotationsshoulders
- Face Pullshoulders
- Cable Lateral Raiseshoulders
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