Push-Ups With Feet Elevated
A beginner compound strength exercise that works the chest, needing no equipment.
Starting position
End position
How to Do Push-Ups With Feet Elevated
- Lie on the floor face down and place your hands about 36 inches apart from each other holding your torso up at arms length.
- Place your toes on top of a flat bench. This will allow your body to be elevated. Note: The higher the elevation of the flat bench, the higher the resistance of the exercise is.
- Lower yourself until your chest almost touches the floor as you inhale.
- Using your pectoral muscles, press your upper body back up to the starting position and squeeze your chest. Breathe out as you perform this step.
- After a second pause at the contracted position, repeat the movement for the prescribed amount of repetitions.
Muscles Worked
Alternatives to Push-Ups With Feet Elevated
10 movements that train the same primary muscle, closest substitutes first — same kind of training, then variations of the movement itself, then a similar difficulty.
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Push-Ups
The push-up is a fundamental bodyweight exercise that targets the chest, triceps, and shoulders while engaging the core. It's one of the most effective exercises for building upper body strength without equipment.
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Push-Ups With Feet On An Exercise Ball
An intermediate compound strength exercise that works the chest, using an exercise ball.
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Decline Push-Up
A beginner compound strength exercise that works the chest.
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Suspended Push-Up
A beginner compound strength exercise that works the chest.
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Incline Push-Up
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Incline Push-Up Medium
A beginner compound strength exercise that works the chest, needing no equipment.
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Incline Push-Up Reverse Grip
A beginner compound strength exercise that works the chest, needing no equipment.
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Incline Push-Up Wide
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Push Up to Side Plank
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Push-Up Wide
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Frequently Asked Questions
What muscles do push-ups with feet elevated work?
Push-Ups With Feet Elevated primarily works the chest. The shoulders and triceps assist as secondary muscles.
What equipment do I need for push-ups with feet elevated?
None. Push-Ups With Feet Elevated is a bodyweight movement you can do anywhere you have floor space.
Push-Ups With Feet Elevated: is it suitable for beginners?
Yes. Push-Ups With Feet Elevated is rated beginner. Movements you can learn in a session, with a low skill floor and a forgiving failure mode.
What can I do instead of push-ups with feet elevated?
Push-Ups, Push-Ups With Feet On An Exercise Ball, Decline Push-Up train the same primary muscles and are listed with 7 more alternatives above.
Can Fitnit count my push-ups with feet elevated reps automatically?
Not automatically yet. Fitnit's AI rep counting covers push-ups, squats, dumbbell curls, crunches and pull-ups today; push-ups with feet elevated can be logged manually in the app, and tracked movements are added over time.
Photographs and step-by-step instructions from free-exercise-db, a public-domain exercise dataset. Muscle mapping and alternatives by Fitnit.
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