Expert exercise
Maltese Box Press
Technique
How to perform Maltese Box Press
- Place two stable plyo boxes side by side with room for your body between them and support under your shoulders and arms.
- Lay your straight arms across the tops with your palms flat on the boxes.
- Press into the supports and lift your feet clear while straightening your hips and knees into one long body line.
- Keep the elbows straight and body shape fixed as you raise the hips above your head through the supported shoulder arc.
- Continue until the body is vertical, without changing this into a bent-arm press.
- Reverse the arc under control, maintaining the straight body as you lower.
- Return your feet to the floor before releasing the supported setup.
Programming relevance
Muscles involved
Primary targets: Anterior Deltoid, Pectoralis Major Sternocostal Head, Pectoralis Major Clavicular Head.
MuscleScoreRole
Calisthenics graph
Progression relationships
These relationships describe graph position, not personal readiness.