Triceps Push-Up

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Watch Triceps Push-Up

Technique

How to perform Triceps Push-Up

1. Set up on your hands and toes with your hands close together beneath your chest.
2. Straighten your arms and keep your head, trunk and legs aligned.
3. Bend your elbows and lower your chest toward your hands without letting your hips sag.
4. Keep the elbows tracking back rather than forcing them wide.
5. Press through your palms to straighten your elbows and raise your body as one unit.
6. Repeat with a controlled descent and steady trunk position.

Programming relevance

Muscles involved

Primary targets: Triceps Lateral Head, Triceps Long Head, Triceps Medial Head.

Calisthenics graph

Progression relationships

These relationships describe graph position, not personal readiness.