Technique
- Place your feet on an elevated surface and your hands on parallettes.
- Lean forward, with the shoulders in front the wrists. Over time, aim to lean forward more to place more weight on your hands, and less on your feet.
- Perform the pushup.
- Let your body go lower than your hands to get a deeper range of motion.
- Keep your Abs engaged and a posterior Pelvic tilt.
Muscles
Strength
Primary
- Shoulders
- Chest
- Biceps
- Serratus anterior
- Forearms
Secondary
- Abs
- Obliques
- Pelvis
Individual muscles
Individual muscles
- Anterior deltoid
- Pectoralis major (clavicular head)
- Serratus anterior
- Biceps brachii (short head)
- Brachialis
- Brachioradialis
Equipment
Appears in
Calisthenics skills
Joint movements
Shoulderflexion forward
trains stretches
Progressions
Advanced tuck planche pushup
Elite
Straddle planche pushup
Herculean
Tuck planche pushup
Advanced
Bent-arm tuck planche
Advanced
Regressions
Feet-elevated pseudo-planche pushup
Advanced
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