How to Do the Incline Push-Up Close-Grip
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💪 Triceps, Chest, Shoulders🏋️ Body Only📊 Beginner🏷️ Strength
How to perform it
- Stand facing a Smith machine bar or sturdy elevated platform at an appropriate height.
- Place your hands next to one another on the bar.
- Position your feet back from the bar with arms and body straight. This will be your starting position.
- Keeping your body straight, lower your chest to the bar by bending the arms.
- Return to the starting position by extending the elbows, pressing yourself back up.
Muscles worked
The Incline Push-Up Close-Grip primarily targets your Triceps, with support from your Chest, Shoulders. You'll need body only.
Make it count toward your goal
Random sets rarely move the needle. In NYUS, the Incline Push-Up Close-Grip slots into a plan built for your goal — sets and reps set in the plan, logged in two taps, and folded into a weekly check-in that adjusts your calories, macros and step goal.