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This is not u for debate. People who have trouble with this often go all the way down and lift their hands up before pushing up again. Your chest shouldn't "kiss" the ground, though that's usually acceptable - I guess - if you're doing reps quickly. It should touch the ground, your ribcage should squish the skin.

e; Some of you are such gigantic idiots. This isn't suprising but it is annoying. If you were to be running miles and you ran 4870 feet, could you count that as a lap (rep)? No. You could not. Just like a full rep of a push up is arms completely extended to arms completely flexed. Up with the concentric, down with the eccentric.

This is not u for debate. People who have trouble with this often go all the way down and lift their hands up before pushing up again. Your chest shouldn't "kiss" the ground, though that's usually acceptable - I guess - if you're doing reps quickly. It should touch the ground, your ribcage should squish the skin. e; Some of you are such gigantic idiots. This isn't suprising but it is annoying. If you were to be running miles and you ran 4870 feet, could you count that as a lap (rep)? No. You could not. Just like a full rep of a push up is arms completely extended to arms completely flexed. Up with the concentric, down with the eccentric.

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Standard push-up (to me) means starting from the plank position, lowering my chest until it bumps the floor (without resting on the floor), then raising back to a plank. That's one rep.

So your arms aren't fully extended? You're missing more than half the range of motion. Or do you do planks by fully extending your arms?

(without resting on the floor)

I never once said your chest needed to rest on the floor. Not here, there or anywhere. I said "touch" the ground. I don't get why all this arguing about this fact about a specific exercise. I seriously don't. The list at the end of your reply are modifications on form that are different exercises, work different muscle, similar muscle in different ways, and are very different on structural stresses of the skeletal system. I didn't in OP mention those or any other post or reply.

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You:

I don't get why all this arguing about this fact about a specific exercise. I seriously don't.

Also you:

This is not u for debate.

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Okay? Those statements agree with each other. My post title agrees with those two as well. A specific exercise is only completed with a full range of motion. Period. You're getting some benefit by doing partials, absolutely. But not as much as you could be getting.

I'll rephrase; I don't get why this simple exercise fact is triggering such intense kvetching from users.

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I don't get why this simple exercise fact is triggering such intense kvetching from users.

In my case it's not the exercise itself, but the idea that you have determined yourself to be the arbiter of what constitutes a push-up.