Technique
- Lie on your back with elbows flexed at 90 degrees.
- Open your hands to the sides
- Push into the ground with your elbows and heels to lift your entire body into a straight line.
Form tips
- Keep your chest lifted and hips aligned with your shoulders.
Muscles
Strength
Primary
- Rotator cuff
- Back
- Shoulders
- Triceps
Individual muscles
Individual muscles
- Teres minor
- Teres major
- Posterior deltoid
- Middle trapezius
- Latissimus dorsi
- Rhomboid major
- Triceps brachii (long head)
- Lower trapezius
- Infraspinatus
Equipment
Appears in
Strength
Joint movements
trains stretches
Regressions
Elbows supine plank
Intermediate
Elbow press
Intermediate
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