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Feet-Elevated Pike Push-up form, muscles worked, and workout tracking

The feet-elevated pike push-up is a bodyweight pressing exercise performed in an inverted V with the feet raised on a box or bench, shifting more weight onto the anterior deltoids and triceps than the standard pike push-up. Lifters use it as the key progression between floor pike push-ups and handstand push-ups, building overhead pressing strength and shoulder stability without any equipment beyond a sturdy surface.

Feet-Elevated Pike Push-up illustration

How to do Feet-Elevated Pike Push-up

  1. 1Place your feet on a box or bench and walk your hands back until your hips are stacked high above your shoulders in a tight pike position.
  2. 2Set your hands slightly wider than shoulder width with fingers spread, and brace your core so your spine stays long.
  3. 3Inhale as you bend your elbows and lower the crown of your head toward the floor just in front of your hands.
  4. 4Keep your hips high throughout; do not let the movement drift into a decline push-up.
  5. 5Exhale as you press back up to straight arms, pushing the floor away, and repeat with control.

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