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ORD said:
Hand stand press ups are very difficult if done properly, but I've seen a cross fit video showing how to kip to make them easier. Yep - kipping a movement for which you start with some of your weight on your head. You couldn't make it up!
Here are some HSPUs from my session the other day.https://youtu.be/mAtTavXcGRw
Edited to add: the movement starts with your arms at full extension NOT on your head.
Edited by Jamie VTS on Saturday 25th March 08:55
Jamie VTS said:
Here are some HSPUs from my session the other day.
https://youtu.be/mAtTavXcGRw
Edited to add: the movement starts with your arms at full extension NOT on your head.
Agreed. Attempting that with your arms on your head would end badly.https://youtu.be/mAtTavXcGRw
Edited to add: the movement starts with your arms at full extension NOT on your head.
Jamie VTS said:
Here are some HSPUs from my session the other day.
https://youtu.be/mAtTavXcGRw
Edited to add: the movement starts with your arms at full extension NOT on your head.
If you flip up like a teenage girl, then yes. But if you press up, you'll start from a headstand, unless you have awesome shoulder mobility and technique. https://youtu.be/mAtTavXcGRw
Edited to add: the movement starts with your arms at full extension NOT on your head.
Edited by Jamie VTS on Saturday 25th March 08:55
13m said:
Jamie VTS said:
Here are some HSPUs from my session the other day.
https://youtu.be/mAtTavXcGRw
Edited to add: the movement starts with your arms at full extension NOT on your head.
Agreed. Attempting that with your arms on your head would end badly.https://youtu.be/mAtTavXcGRw
Edited to add: the movement starts with your arms at full extension NOT on your head.
Good stuff Jamie, very hard technique to get right. Hands on housebricks next!
ORD said:
Jamie VTS said:
Here are some HSPUs from my session the other day.
https://youtu.be/mAtTavXcGRw
Edited to add: the movement starts with your arms at full extension NOT on your head.
If you flip up like a teenage girl, then yes. But if you press up, you'll start from a headstand, unless you have awesome shoulder mobility and technique. https://youtu.be/mAtTavXcGRw
Edited to add: the movement starts with your arms at full extension NOT on your head.
Edited by Jamie VTS on Saturday 25th March 08:55
Jamie VTS said:
ORD said:
Jamie VTS said:
Here are some HSPUs from my session the other day.
https://youtu.be/mAtTavXcGRw
Edited to add: the movement starts with your arms at full extension NOT on your head.
If you flip up like a teenage girl, then yes. But if you press up, you'll start from a headstand, unless you have awesome shoulder mobility and technique. https://youtu.be/mAtTavXcGRw
Edited to add: the movement starts with your arms at full extension NOT on your head.
Edited by Jamie VTS on Saturday 25th March 08:55
V8mate said:
Jamie VTS said:
ORD said:
Jamie VTS said:
Here are some HSPUs from my session the other day.
https://youtu.be/mAtTavXcGRw
Edited to add: the movement starts with your arms at full extension NOT on your head.
If you flip up like a teenage girl, then yes. But if you press up, you'll start from a headstand, unless you have awesome shoulder mobility and technique. https://youtu.be/mAtTavXcGRw
Edited to add: the movement starts with your arms at full extension NOT on your head.
Edited by Jamie VTS on Saturday 25th March 08:55
13m said:
Jamie VTS said:
The movement starts from arms fully locked out. Otherwise it would be like starting a press up from chest on the floor. Teenage girl or not I'd enjoy seeing a video of you doing some.
Can I just say I would prefer to see a video of a teenage girl doing some.V8mate said:
Out of interest, can you OHP your own bodyweight?
Mind if I jump in? That type of HSPU is probably equivalent to about 75% bodyweight I reckon. Jaime's version, whilst still hard to do, has shorter ROM, and leaning against the wall helps. Also elbows in further than a strict shoulder press means the technique's different. Similar to a bodyweight shoulder press in difficulty would be unsupported HSPUs on parallettes.Vastly easier than bodyweight OHP. More like 70%. I cannot OHP my bodyweight but have been able to do handstand press ups, starting from a headstand or kicking up, for years. I could do 10 when I wasn't remotely strong overhead. I think it's a tricep dominant movement. I see the press from headstand or from some other position as the purer form.
Not an exercise you see very often, but it's not terribly hard.
Not an exercise you see very often, but it's not terribly hard.
ORD said:
Vastly easier than bodyweight OHP. More like 70%. I cannot OHP my bodyweight but have been able to do handstand press ups, starting from a headstand or kicking up, for years. I could do 10 when I wasn't remotely strong overhead. I think it's a tricep dominant movement. I see the press from headstand or from some other position as the purer form.
Not an exercise you see very often, but it's not terribly hard.
I agree I don't find them particularly hard and wouldn't describe myself as strong overhead (overhead is actually a weakness for me). But I'm also short with little arms which reduces the range of movement (and I'm obviously fairly light). Not an exercise you see very often, but it's not terribly hard.
I did them as part of a session 5 rounds of (5 bw bench press, 5 chest to bar pull ups and 5 HSPUs). Only posted the video as someone mentioned them further up! Happy training all!
There is a fella at our gym who has not been lifting very long it seems. Has a PT. Today's session was benching and he seemed to be able to rep 50kg. However, his PT then loaded 90kg on the bar. Matey couldn't manage a single rep on his own, but managed one forced one. What happened then, though, surprised me. The PT loaded another 20kg on the bar.
Using all his strength, the PT managed to stop the bar pinning his client to the bench and between them they managed to get the bar back to the top of a rep. Cue much whooping and punching the air by the client.
Is this some sort of new style of training that has thus far escaped me, or are both the client and the PT plums of epic proportion?
ORD said:
egor110 said:
To be fair if he's paid for a P.T you kind of expect him to know what he's doing.
You'd be wrong. 
The strength and conditioning knowledge of the typical PT could fit on a single page of Men's Health (which is where it comes from).
If i'm paying somebody i'd want to know what he's qualified in.
As i'm mainly a runner if i asked for a weights routine i;d want to know how exactly it's going to help and why say a 5x5 routine may or may not be better for me than a 3 sets of 15 routine .
Doing squats, bench press then pendlay rows today. suprisingly it wasn't busy going in at 4pm.
As I was doing the pendlays this short chinese girl comes along and asks if she can budge in and use the squat rack, it doesnt bother me so I let her. I see her get her own bar and some 25kg plates so I think 'ok shes serious'. she warms up with the bar in between my sets. I see her put on 15kg plates and start squatting. I was worried with her for a while as I saw her leaning almost 20-30degrees to 1 side, thank god she put clips on otherwise the weight would have definately fallen off.
As I was doing the pendlays this short chinese girl comes along and asks if she can budge in and use the squat rack, it doesnt bother me so I let her. I see her get her own bar and some 25kg plates so I think 'ok shes serious'. she warms up with the bar in between my sets. I see her put on 15kg plates and start squatting. I was worried with her for a while as I saw her leaning almost 20-30degrees to 1 side, thank god she put clips on otherwise the weight would have definately fallen off.
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