Exercise guide

Incline Push-Up Close-Grip

CategoryStrength EquipmentBody Only ForcePush MechanicCompound LevelBeginner

How to do the Incline Push-Up Close-Grip: step-by-step instructions, muscles worked (Triceps), and equipment. Log it in Vantora.

How to perform the Incline Push-Up Close-Grip exercise

How to do the Incline Push-Up Close-Grip

  1. Stand facing a Smith machine bar or sturdy elevated platform at an appropriate height.
  2. Place your hands next to one another on the bar.
  3. Position your feet back from the bar with arms and body straight. This will be your starting position.
  4. Keeping your body straight, lower your chest to the bar by bending the arms.
  5. Return to the starting position by extending the elbows, pressing yourself back up.

Muscles worked

triceps chest shoulders

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