How to do the Push-Up
- Set up in a high plank with hands slightly wider than shoulder width and feet together or apart.
- Stack shoulders over hands, straighten your legs, and form a straight line from head to heels.
- Brace your abs, squeeze your glutes, and keep your neck neutral with eyes slightly ahead.
- Bend your elbows and lower your body as one unit until your chest nears the floor.
- Keep elbows angled back rather than flared straight out as you reach the bottom position.
- Press through your palms and drive the floor away until your elbows are fully extended.
- Finish in a solid plank without letting your hips sag or your upper back collapse.
Common mistakes
- Hips sagging below the shoulders
- Piking hips on the way up
- Elbows flaring straight out
- Stopping short of full depth
- Head dropping between the arms
Form cues
- Body moves as one
- Push the floor away
- Keep elbows angled back
- Brace before every rep
- Reach full arm extension