How to do the Feet-elevated Pike Push-up

The Feet-elevated Pike Push-up is a push move. You can do it at home on one mat, with no jumping and nothing that shakes the floor.

• Level 4/5
• Shoulders
• You need: Chair

Form cues

1. Toes on the chair, hips over shoulders
2. Lower your head just in front of your hands
3. Press back up

Your hands carry your weight, so it loads the wrists. If your wrists hurt, tap “My wrists hurt” in the app to switch to a wrist-friendly version.

Muscles worked

Shoulders — Press with your shoulders, hips high

More bodyweight shoulders exercises

Easier → harder

Climb the same move from easier to harder steps. The right step leaves you two or three reps in reserve at the end of 40 seconds.

1. Step 1 · Pike Push-up
2. Step 2 · Feet-elevated Pike Push-up
3. Step 3 · Wall Handstand Push-up

More moves for the same area

• Shoulder CARsLevel 1/5
• Crab ReachLevel 2/5
• InchwormLevel 2/5
• Pike Push-upLevel 3/5
• Hindu Push-upLevel 3/5
• Backpack Clean and PressLevel 3/5 · Backpack

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