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How to Do Suspended Push-Up

Step-by-step instructions, muscles worked and workouts that use the suspended push-up.

How to do it

1. Anchor your suspension straps securely to the top of a rack or other object.
2. Leaning into the straps, take a handle in each hand and move into a push-up plank position. You should be as close to parallel to the ground as you can manage with your arms fully extended, maintaining good posture.
3. Maintaining a straight, rigid torso, descend slowly by allowing the elbows to flex.
4. Continue until your elbows break 90 degrees, pausing before you extend to return to the starting position.

Form tips

• Start light and own the movement before adding weight.
• Control the lowering phase — don't drop into it.
• Keep breathing; exhale on the hardest part.
• Stop if you feel sharp pain (different from muscle burn).

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Exercise photos and instructions: free-exercise-db (public domain). Animation made from the real start and end photos.