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Hand-Release Push-Up: how to do it

A push-up where chest and thighs touch the floor and the hands lift off at the bottom of every rep, then you press back to straight arms with the body in one piece.

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Step by step

  1. Press up to straight arms, hips and chest rising together.

    01 Press up to straight arms, hips and chest rising together.

    Avoid: the chest rising first, hips left on the floor: the lower back arches.

  2. Lower as one piece until chest and thighs touch the floor.

    02 Lower as one piece until chest and thighs touch the floor.

    Avoid: elbows flaring wide to the sides: the shoulders take the strain.

  3. Lift the hands off, then set them back under the shoulders.

    03 Lift the hands off, then set them back under the shoulders.

In short

  1. Lower as one piece until chest and thighs touch the floor
  2. Lift the hands off, then set them back under the shoulders
  3. Press up to straight arms, hips and chest rising together
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