Chest press
Deficit Push-Up
Trains chest press. You'll need a parallettes. We use it as an accessory rather than a main lift.
What you need
- Equipment
- Parallettes
- Trains
- Chest press
- In a plan
- An accessory
How to do it
Hands on the bars so the chest can drop below them.
Watch the form ↗That's a search, not a fixed video — deliberately. A pinned clip can be deleted or turn out to be a bad demonstration, and you'd only find out mid-workout.
When we won't give you this
- We leave this out for anyone who's flagged their shoulders — it puts the joint in a position that tends to aggravate it.
- We introduce this once you've got a training cycle behind you.
None of this is medical advice — see the health disclaimer.
If the machine's busy
These train the same pattern, and they're what the app offers you as a swap: