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Tom’s Guide
Tom’s Guide
Technology
John Carroll

I did 50 incline push-ups every day for a week — here’s what happened to my chest, arms and shoulders

A photo of a woman doing an incline push up.

As I’ve noted before, the push-up is probably the most common body-weight strengthening exercise of them all. It’s also highly adaptable, and I’ve tried a few variations for Tom’s Guide, including the dumbbell push-up, pike push-up and the diamond push-up. And I wasn’t unfamiliar with the incline version, but I was keen to see how I’d fare by doing 50, or more, every day for a week.

What is an incline push-up?

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