Chest · TRX
Ring Push-up to Side Plank
How to do the ring push-up to side plank, the muscles it works, and the mistakes to avoid. Pulled straight from the Kovo app's exercise library.
- Equipment
- TRX
- Difficulty
- Advanced
- Logged as
- Reps
- Movement
- HorizontalPush
- Mechanic
- Compound
How to do it
Start in a push-up position with both hands on the TRX handles set just off the floor. Lower your chest between the handles and press back up, then rotate your torso and reach one arm to the sky into a side plank. Return and alternate sides.
- 1Chest and triceps driving the press, then obliques bracing the rotation
- 2Shoulder blades controlling the wobble of the straps
- 3A tight straight body as you open into the side plank
Common mistakes
- Letting your hips sag through the push-up
- Rushing the rotation and losing the straight line
- Flaring your elbows wide as you lower
Muscles worked
The ring push-up to side plank mainly works the mid chest, triceps, lower abs, and obliques, with the upper abs, front delts, forearms, upper chest, lower chest, glutes, and side delts assisting.
- Mid ChestPrimary
- TricepsPrimary
- Lower AbsPrimary
- ObliquesPrimary
- Upper AbsSupport
- Front DeltsSupport
- ForearmsSupport
- Upper ChestSupport
- Lower ChestSupport
- GlutesSupport
- Side DeltsSupport
- Lower BackMinor
- Upper TrapsMinor
- Mid TrapsMinor
- QuadsMinor
- HamstringsMinor
- Hip FlexorsMinor
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Last reviewed June 2026.