CalisthenicsIn review

Incline Push-Up

A bodyweight horizontal press with both hands on a raised surface.

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Pattern: Horizontal push
Modality: Calisthenics
Difficulty: Beginner
Mechanic: Unknown
Force: Unknown
Laterality: Bilateral
Impact: Low
Trains where: Gym, Home
At home: Yes

How to do it

Set up

Place both hands on a stable raised surface and walk your feet back into a straight body line.

Do the rep

Bend your elbows and lower your chest toward the support.
Press the support away until your arms are straight.

What counts as a rep

A rep counts when the chest touches the raised support and the arms return to lockout with the body straight.

One rep starts at locked arms, touches the chest to the raised support, and ends at locked arms with the body straight.

Breathing

Breathe in as the chest lowers; exhale as you press away.

Cues

Body stays long
Chest moves to support
Press evenly

Common mistakes

Hips sagging
What you seeThe hips drop below the line from shoulders to heels.
FixBrace your trunk and move the body as one unit.
A straight body line keeps the raised press load distributed as intended.
Stopping above the support
What you seeThe chest reverses before touching the raised surface.
FixLower the chest to the support on every rep.
Touching the support and returning to lockout defines the full range.

Stop the set if

Stop if you feel sharp pain.
Stop if the raised support shifts or the hips cannot stay aligned.
End the set when you cannot meet the stated range under control.

General educational content, not individual coaching or medical advice.

Muscles worked

Prime movers

Chest · moderate confidence
Triceps · moderate confidence
Front deltoids · moderate confidence

Assisting

Deep core / trunk stabilizers · moderate confidence
Serratus anterior · moderate confidence

Equipment

Bodyweight + Bench

Optional: Floor mat

Choose a stable raised support that will not slide under hand pressure.

In the app

You log this by hand. The camera coach does not watch this movement yet.

Tracking: Camera candidate

How this page was checked

Draft. A editorial reviewer has not signed this off yet.

Draft text is original and based only on the Wave-1 CSV and planning brief catalog/wave-1/035-incline-push-up.md; no human review is complete.
The planning brief's assigned independent-source research is not complete.
Anatomy, technique, breathing, stop cues, and common-error guidance remain planning judgments pending the assigned review tier.
Candidate programming vocabularies, exact relation edges, and public tracking support remain unreviewed and fail closed.
The brief marks the bench as optional, but this variant requires a stable raised surface; bench is required pending review.
This pass treats bodyweight-reps as the legal modes supported by the CSV logging model; reviewer approval remains required.
The rewritten summary, rep standard, breathing, stop cues, and common errors are editorial judgements pending the assigned review tier.
Legacy relations are movement-pattern and equipment judgements; engine edges remain empty pending S2-CAT-005 approval.
Pass 2 rewrites the finish standard as a counting-only criterion and replaces the web title, summary, and meta description with exercise-specific copy; these editorial choices require review.
Pass 2 limits setup_notes to equipment settings or leaves it empty when no equipment-specific setup applies; this equipment judgment requires review.

All instruction and web text is original Allena draft text written from the Wave-1 CSV and record brief. No competitor or free-exercise-db instruction text was copied.

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