Technique
- Lean forward with straight arms against a wall, with only the fingertips touching the wall.
- Bent your arms until your face almost touches the wall, then push back up.
- Using the fingertips will give you a little extra range of motion to make the pushup deeper. It will also strengthen your fingers.
Form tips
- Keep your elbows close to the body (this is a better position for your shoulders); do not let them turn outward.
Muscles
Strength
Primary
- Forearms
Secondary
- Shoulders
- Chest
- Triceps
- Serratus anterior
- Abs
- Obliques
- Biceps
- Pelvis
Individual muscles
Individual muscles
- Flexor digitorum superficialis
- Flexor digitorum profondus
- Flexor pollicis longus
- Anterior deltoid
- Pectoralis major (clavicular head)
- Triceps brachii (long head)
- Triceps brachii (medial head)
- Triceps brachii (lateral head)
- Serratus anterior
- Rectus abdominis
- External oblique
- Internal oblique
Equipment
Appears in
Joint movements
HandFinger flexion
trains stretches
Progressions
Incline fingertip pushup
Novice
Regressions
Wall pushup
Beginner
Hand to fist
Beginner
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