Close-grip push-ups put your hands under your shoulders and your elbows along your sides: more triceps work than regular push-ups.
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Setup
Get into a plank with your hands under your shoulders or a bit narrower. Body straight from heels to head, glutes and abs tight. Lower yourself with your elbows brushing your sides.
Execution
Get into a plank with your hands closer than shoulder-width apart.
Inhale and lower yourself until your chest nearly touches the floor, elbows tracking along your body.
Exhale and press back up with your triceps.
Common mistakes
Putting your hands together in a diamond — it's hard on the wrists; shoulder width is enough.
Elbows flaring — keep them close.
Hips sagging — glutes and abs tight the whole set.
Not going all the way down — chest nearly touches the floor.
