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Pseudo Planche Push-Up

Push · chest · advanced

Pseudo Planche Push-Up — start positionStart
Pseudo Planche Push-Up — end positionFinish
similar: Pushups

How to do it

Place the hands beside the hips with fingers pointing back, lean the shoulders forward past the hands, and push-up while holding that forward lean.

Muscles worked

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

Equipment

No equipment

Common mistakes

  • Losing the forward lean as soon as the set gets hard
  • Letting the hips drop so the lower back takes the load
  • Adding lean faster than the wrists have adapted to it

Variations

  • Feet-elevated pseudo planche push-up
  • Pseudo planche lean hold

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