Weight Training - Decline Press Up

Teaching points

• Feet in elevated position
• Maintain a straight body throughout exercise
• Abs & Glutes should be tight throughout
• Bend the elbows outwards to lower the chest towards the floor
  
• Push back up to the starting position
• A more advanced version of the press-up

Variations & progressions

• A standard press-up.
• Incline press-up.
  

Muscles worked

• Pectoralis Major
  
• Triceps Brachii
  
• Anterior fibres of Deltoid
  
• Serratus Anterior

Related injuries

• Pectoral strain

 

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