Tuck Maltese Box Press

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Technique

How to perform Tuck Maltese Box Press

1. Place two stable plyo boxes side by side with room for your hips between them and support for your shoulders and arms.
2. Lay your straight arms across the tops with your palms flat against the boxes.
3. Press through the supported arms and shoulders to lift your feet, drawing your knees tightly toward your chest.
4. Maintain the tight tuck and straight elbows while pressing your hips upward over your head.
5. Reverse the motion under control, lowering through the same supported arc without opening into an advanced tuck.
6. Place your feet down before releasing the setup.

Programming relevance

Muscles involved

Primary targets: Anterior Deltoid, Pectoralis Major Sternocostal Head, Pectoralis Major Clavicular Head.

Calisthenics graph

Progression relationships

These relationships describe graph position, not personal readiness.