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Horizontal push

Push-up

No equipment at all. When nothing else is available this still trains the pattern, and adding reps is a real progression.

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The movement pages are part of MacroChef Plus

How the lift is performed, what it trains, and where it belongs in a split — for all 67 movements. One subscription covers the training side and the whole recipe library.

How Plus works
Push-up, the movement
The movement
Trains
Chest, Front delts, Triceps, Trunk
Programmed at
—
Used as
a swap for other movements

This one is not programmed directly — it is what you do when the first choice is taken or does not suit you. See the splits it stands in for.

The muscle itself

The pectoralis major with its clavicular head from the collarbone and its larger sternal head from the breastbone, fibres running in different directions.
Two parts pulling in different directions, which is why flat and incline pressing are not the same exercise.

Everything else that trains this pattern

Training is the easy half

You will not build anything on the wrong number of calories, and most people are eating a long way under the protein they think they are. Get your daily number, then have the week built to it — every recipe on the site is costed from gram weights, so the figures are checkable rather than rounded up to sound better.