Clock Push-Up

Assume a high plank position with your hands directly under your shoulders. Lower your upper body towards the floor, keeping your elbows close to your sides and arms at a 45-degree angle. Push through your hands, engaging your chest, triceps, and shoulders to raise your upper body back to the starting position. Repeat the movement, but this time as you push up, rotate your body to the left or right, reaching one arm towards the ceiling, and hold the position for a second. Return to the starting position and alternate rotating to the opposite side with each repetition.

How to perform the Clock Push-Up

  1. Set up. Set up in a stable, balanced starting position appropriate for the Clock Push-Up using your body weight.
  2. Brace and execute. Brace your core, control the descent, and move through a full pain-free range of motion while emphasizing your pectoralis major.
  3. Reset. Reverse the movement under control and reset between repetitions, keeping your form crisp on every rep.

Coaching cues

  • Move with intent — every rep should feel deliberate, not rushed.
  • Drive force through your pectoralis major rather than momentum.
  • Keep your breathing steady: exhale on the hard part, inhale on the reset.

Common mistakes

  • Using too much weight and losing positional control.
  • Cutting the range of motion short and missing the target muscle.
  • Letting your spine round or hyperextend instead of staying neutral.

Detailed cues, common mistakes, and demonstration video are available in the Fitly app.

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