How to Do the Push Up to Side Plank
💪 Chest, Abdominals, Shoulders, Triceps🏋️ Body Only📊 Beginner🏷️ Strength
How to perform it
- Get into pushup position on the toes with your hands just outside of shoulder width.
- Perform a pushup by allowing the elbows to flex. As you descend, keep your body straight.
- Do one pushup and as you come up, shift your weight on the left side of the body, twist to the side while bringing the right arm up towards the ceiling in a side plank.
- Lower the arm back to the floor for another pushup and then twist to the other side.
- Repeat the series, alternating each side, for 10 or more reps.
Muscles worked
The Push Up to Side Plank primarily targets your Chest, with support from your Abdominals, Shoulders, Triceps. You'll need body only.
Make it count toward your goal
Random sets rarely move the needle. In NYUS, the Push Up to Side Plank slots into a plan built for your goal — sets, reps and progression auto-suggested, logged in two taps, and folded into a weekly review that adapts what comes next.