Plank to push-up position (body-up)
Triceps
- Target muscles: arms, chest, shoulders
- Equipment: bodyweight
- Level: intermediate
How to do it
- Get into a forearm plank: elbows under your shoulders, body in a straight line from head to heels.
- Brace your core and glutes, keeping your hips level, not sagging or piking up.
- One at a time, place your hands under your shoulders and press up into a straight-arm plank.
- Hold at the top, keeping your torso level without rocking your hips.
- Lower back down to your forearms in the same order.
- Repeat for the desired number of reps, alternating which arm leads.
Swap it for
- Kneeling Triceps Extension
- Seated Incline Two-Arm Dumbbell Overhead Extension
- Dumbbell triceps kickback
- dumbbell lying alternate extension
- Lying Dumbbell Triceps Extension
- Lying dumbbell triceps extension
Harder
- barbell lying back of the head tricep extension
- Lying close-grip barbell triceps extension
- barbell lying extension
- barbell lying triceps extension
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