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I disagree, the progress from hero to superhero is much more difficult. I can do many pull ups, I can do archer pull ups. In the gym I was just adding weights e
by shmel 6y ago
I disagree, the progress from hero to superhero is much more difficult. I can do many pull ups, I can do archer pull ups. In the gym I was just adding weights every time I felt it is too easy, 5kg at a time, nice little step up. During the lockdown I thought, okay, I can train for one arm pull up, I add half of my body weight in iron anyway. I still don't know how to do it gradually. I tried resistance bands and various progressions I found on youtube. They all feel like much bigger steps than adding 5kg every time. I ended up pulling my biceps when I moved from one resistance band to another.
Overall, I found it very irritating when people repeatedly told me: "oh, gyms are closed? try pushups at home!" Gym goers are already not "most people".
- dogma1138 6y agoYou know how many variations are there on pull ups? change your grip width and angle, can you do a parallel pull up? regular pulls up are so easy to overload even if you can't do the variations a backpack is all you need. And honestly i want to see a one arm pull up with and a proper one (not when you hanging willy nilly sideways) with 150% body weight that puts you not only well above the average gym but well above the elite athlete territory here is Magnus Midtbø doing one arm pull ups https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7zoN4DvEpKA https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7zoN4DvEpKA and there is no way he can do it with 150% bodyweight, I don't know of a single climber that ever achieved that.
- shmel 6y agoI do normal two arms pull ups with additional weight. If I could do weighted one arm pull up, I wouldn't have a problem to do them without weight at home. I admit I was a big fun of bw workouts for 3-4 years. Until I realized that it is much easier to add another plate than dig youtube for more difficult progressions and suffer. Pretty much the same way I can do a dozen of handstand pushups, but I have no idea how to move to one arm handstand pushup. I am not even sure I saw a video of one on youtube. Moving through advanced progressions of bw exercises is much much more challenging than increasing number of plates on barbell. That was my whole point. I can see why people do it as sport, but it is a handicap for everyone who just wants to lift more.
- dogma1138 6y agoFor one arm standup push-up if you have push-up handles then you use one of them and the other arm on the floor and you alternate this basically puts more of the load on the arm that is on the floor while providing some support. You can also use a palm on the floor and forearm on the floor if you don’t have the handles or just use a book/anything to elevate one arm to reduce its range of motion and to allow you to transfer more and more weight to the other. But for hand stand push-ups you have other ways of progression such as curling your body to reduce the center of mass and to isolate your arms, chest and shoulder more from your back and core. I generally avoid one hand anything because it’s too easy to get injured which is one of the main issues with body weight. Most people won’t be able to lift enough weight to get injured and unless you are doing singles/doubles you are more or less safe. With tings like one armed handstand pushups it’s way too easy to get to a point in your range of motion where you have absolutely no chance of holding that weight in fact it’s rather easy to do it with normal hand standing pushups. There are safer options for shoulder/delts dominated pushups than hand standing ones.
- pmoriarty 6y agoDon't search on youtube. Ask on r/bodyweightfitness https://www.reddit.com/r/bodyweightfitness/ https://www.reddit.com/r/bodyweightfitness/