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I 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 ad

by shmel 6y ago

I 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 ago
For 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 ago
Don't search on youtube. Ask on r/bodyweightfitness https://www.reddit.com/r/bodyweightfitness/ https://www.reddit.com/r/bodyweightfitness/

by shmel 6y ago

dogma1138 6y ago

For 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 ago

Don't search on youtube. Ask on r/bodyweightfitness https://www.reddit.com/r/bodyweightfitness/ https://www.reddit.com/r/bodyweightfitness/