Flex

Pike Push-Ups

Muscles worked

Technique

Setup

From a push-up position, walk your feet toward your hands and lift your hips high so your body forms an inverted V.

Movement

Bend your elbows to lower the top of your head toward the floor between your hands, then press back up.

Form Tip

Keep your elbows tracking back at roughly 45 degrees and your hips high — the head travels down, not forward.

Increase Difficulty

Elevate your feet on a chair or step to shift more weight onto your shoulders.

Decrease Difficulty

Walk the hands further forward (less inverted), or do Incline Push-Ups instead.

Hear the cue

The trainer's spoken setup and form tip for this exercise — the same clips Flex plays in a session.

Setup · male voice
Form tip · male voice
Setup · female voice
Form tip · female voice