Narrow Grip Wall Push-Up

Exercise / Chest, Triceps

How to: Narrow Grip Wall Push-Up

Narrow Grip Wall Push-Up

Step 1: Standing at arm’s length from a wall, extend your arms so your hands are flat on the wall at shoulder height.

Step 2: Inhale and, in one movement, press your body toward the wall as if doing a push-up. Exhale and push back to the original position, keeping your elbows close to your sides throughout.

Narrow Grip Wall Push-Up – Benefits

  • The Narrow-grip wall push-up is an easy push-up variation that is preferred by those who are new to exercise or who cannot do push-ups as an alternative to doing push-ups. It is a compound exercise that requires no equipment and works multiple muscle groups at the same time. Although this bodyweight exercise mainly targets the triceps, it also works the inside of your chest and the front of your shoulders.

Narrow Grip Wall Push-Up – Mucles Worked

Target - Triceps
Synergists - Anterior Deltoid
Synergists - Pectoralis Major, Sternal
Synergists - Pectoralis Major, Clavicular
Synergists - Pectoralis Minor
Dynamic Stabilizers - Biceps Brachii
triceps muscle worked