Alternating Floor Press
Equipment: Kettlebells
Primary muscles: Chest
Strength
Pushups (Close and Wide Hand Positions) Exercise
Pushups (Close and Wide Hand Positions) is a Beginner Strength exercise using Body Only for Chest. Lie on the floor face down and body straight with your toes...
Exercise Details
- Category
- Strength
- Level
- Beginner
- Equipment
- Body Only
- Force
- Push
- Mechanic
- Compound
- Primary muscles
- Chest
- Secondary muscles
- Shoulders, Triceps
How to Do Pushups (Close and Wide Hand Positions)
- Lie on the floor face down and body straight with your toes on the floor and the hands wider than shoulder width for a wide hand position and closer than shoulder width for a close hand position. Make sure you are holding your torso up at arms length.
- Lower yourself until your chest almost touches the floor as you inhale.
- Using your pectoral muscles, press your upper body back up to the starting position and squeeze your chest. Breathe out as you perform this step.
- After a second pause at the contracted position, repeat the movement for the prescribed amount of repetitions.
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