Suspended Push-Up

What it is

This exercise is a modified push-up performed while supported by suspension straps. You'll primarily engage your chest, with significant contribution from your shoulders and triceps. It involves pressing your body away from the handles as you lower and raise yourself.

Technique tips

• Keep your body rigid and in a straight line from head to heels.
• Control your descent slowly, allowing elbows to flex past 90 degrees.
• Maintain constant core tension to stabilize your entire body.
• Push up powerfully, exhaling as you return to the starting position.
• Adjust your foot position to modify the difficulty of the movement.

How to track your progress

Log the weight and reps of each set. Straddly turns every set into an estimated one-rep max, so a heavier single and a strong set of eight both count as progress, and it flags a personal record the moment you beat your best.