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There are many varieties of push-ups: Close-grip pushups: To perform close-grip pushups, place your hands closer together than shoulder-width apart. This will
by sourcecodeplz 4y ago
There are many varieties of push-ups:
Close-grip pushups: To perform close-grip pushups, place your hands closer together than shoulder-width apart. This will increase the challenge on your triceps.
Wide-grip pushups: To perform wide-grip pushups, place your hands further apart than shoulder-width apart. This will increase the challenge on your chest muscles.
Elevated pushups: To perform elevated pushups, place your feet on an elevated surface such as a step or bench. This will increase the difficulty of the exercise.
Plyometric pushups: Plyometric pushups, also known as "clap" pushups, involve pushing up with enough force to lift your hands off the ground and clap them together before returning to the starting position.
One-armed pushups: As the name suggests, one-armed pushups are performed using only one arm. They are an advanced variation that requires a high level of upper body strength.
Knuckle pushups: Knuckle pushups are performed with your hands in a fist position, with your knuckles facing down. They are a more challenging variation that places more of the load on your wrists and forearms.
Diamond pushups: Diamond pushups are performed with your hands placed close together, forming a diamond shape with your index fingers and thumbs. They are a challenging variation that targets the triceps muscles.
- riku_iki 4y agoMost of your variants mainly target the same muscles: triceps and low peks. Exception is probably wide push ups, but they are not good for shoulder joint health.
- littlecranky67 4y agoThey are meant to target same muscles, but offer a progression (beginner to expert). There are other excercises for other upper body muscles, with similar variant/progression principles (Dips, Shoulder presses)
- littlecranky67 4y agoTo add to that list, those I found useful to increase difficulty/load once regular pushups become to easy: - Zombie pushups: Offset hands instead of aligning in a straight line (one upper, one lower) - alternate after a set - Asymetric pushups: Move one arm/hand farther out than the other, try to go down to the center. Alternate sets. Use as progression to go towards one-arm pushups. Another variant is to go with symetric hand position, but lower your body towards one hand at a time (think "nipple to the thumb"). That being said, I strongly believe they are not healthy for your joints, the one-arm pushup in general feels just bad for the joints given the performed motion.