Here are the 50 press up variations that we've posted recetly, from easiest to hardest.
Different people will find different press up variations harder or easier than others depending on their strengths and weaknesses i.e. balance, joint/core stability, strength, power, flexibility, agility. Therefore, this isn't a definitive list in terms of order of difficulty because everybody’s different! Other individual differences such as body shape, somatype, muscle fibre type dominance and even height and weight have big roles to play in determining which variations are easier or harder.
Press ups from easiest to hardest:
- Wall press ups
- Kneeling press ups
- 60 degree press ups
- 30 degree press ups
- Quad press ups
- Wide press ups
- Standard press ups
- Elbow plank press up and down
- Narrow press ups
- Press up to one arm
- Press up to one leg
- One leg press ups
- Press up to one arm & one leg
- Press up to T-side plank
- Decline Press ups
- Explosive modified press up
- Down dog press ups
- Renegade row press ups
- Swiss ball press ups
- Swiss ball one leg press ups
- One leg down dog press ups
- Weighted press ups
- Hindu press Ups
- Spider-Man press ups
- Reptilian crawl press ups
- Unilateral med ball press ups
- Jumping bosu press ups
- Swiss ball push jacks
- Swiss ball twisting push jacks
- Narrow med ball press ups
- Lateral press ups
- Jumping med ball to narrow press ups
- Jumping step to wide press ups
- 2 x med ball press ups
- 4 x med ball press ups
- Blast off press ups
- Explosive press up
- Clappyingpress ups
- Explosive unilateral med ball press ups
- Mountain climber press ups
- Bastards
- Six step press ups
- Deep P-bar press ups
- Pike handstand press ups
- Scorpion press ups
- Tiger press ups
- One arm press ups
- Handstand press ups
- Bruce Lee finger press ups
- Jumping explosive press up