- Grab the bars and support yourself above the floor with your arms straight and your torso slightly bent forward.
- Keep your chest lifted and your shoulder blades pinned back. This is the starting position.
- Inhale as you lower yourself by bending your elbows until your chest feels fully stretched.
- Now, exhale as you use your pec muscles to lift yourself back to the starting position. Tightly contract your pecs at the end of the movement.
- Now, inhale as you lower yourself by bending your elbows until your triceps feel fully stretched.
- Exhale as you use your triceps to lift yourself back to the starting position.
- Hold the contraction for a moment and then repeat the movements until you have completed all of your reps.
Target Muscles
Chest, Triceps
Secondary Muscles
Shoulders
Stabilizer Muscles
N/A
Experience
Beginner (1-2 years)
Equipment
Bodyweight, Parallette Bars
Exercise Type
Strength
Exertion
Cardio Intensity
Force
Push
Mechanic
Compound
Force Detail
Bilateral
Functions
N/A
Intensity
N/A
Bearing
N/A
Impact
N/A
Utilities
N/A
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