Chest · Bodyweight
Push Ups
The push up is a bodyweight pressing movement performed face down with the hands on the floor, lowering the chest toward the ground and pressing back up while the body holds a straight line.
Also called Press Up. orcatrain matches these names when you search the movement catalogue.
How is the push-up performed?
The lifter starts with the hands on the floor a little wider than the shoulders, arms straight, and the body in a straight line from head to heels supported on the toes. The chest is lowered toward the floor by bending the arms, then pressed back up to straight arms. The trunk stays rigid throughout, so the hips neither sag nor rise — the body moves as one piece.
What does the push-up train?
The push up trains the same chest, front deltoid and triceps pattern as the bench press, with the added demand of holding the whole body rigid. Because the load is a fixed fraction of bodyweight, it is a movement people progress through repetitions and variations rather than by adding plates, which makes it a poor measure of maximum strength but a durable one for training volume.
How does orcatrain score the push-up?
Push ups are normally logged at 0 kg, which records the set and its repetitions without producing a strength score — the coefficient needs a load to apply to. If you add weight with a vest or plate, log that added weight and the set will be scored like any other loaded movement.
Every scored set is turned into an estimated one-rep max, and that estimate is scored with the DOTS coefficient against your bodyweight and sex — so a set is comparable with your own past work and with lifters of a different size. Sets above ten repetitions are recorded but not scored: the estimate is a curve fit that stops being honest past that point, so orcatrain returns nothing rather than a confident guess. Weights are stored in kilograms.
Track your progress on Push Ups.
Movement names and groupings come from Strength Level, where you can also see their strength standards for this movement. DOTS is computed by orcatrain itself.