Novice Form Checks - H1 PE1 & iM

I posted my F1(7) PE1 form check videos in the F1 forum here. Here's my H1 PE1 & iM.  

 

A question on the Static Seated Shoulder Flexion...How do I know when to move my hands closer? Should I be aiming for the body and arm angles shown in the course video, then once I can do that, move my hands closer?  It looks like the model athlete's arms are close to vertical with a forward body lean. 

 

Here's my video:

 

How much does your bar weigh? You should be using a bar with a weight between 3-5kgs. Also, eventually you want to decrease your hands to shoulder width. Decrease the distance between your hands gradually.

I can certainly relate to the huffing and puffing

Hi Robert,

 

Your form looks good to me when compared to the athlete in the video. The only thing with the SSSF is that the athlete seems to go a bit deeper.

 

> A question on the Static Seated Shoulder Flexion...How do I know when to move my hands closer? 

 

Personally, I used to move my hands closer whenever I felt like I could do it.  But after reading Coach's essay on shoulder dislocates ()%C2'>I changed my method. 

 

Here are the steps that I currently follow to figure out my starting width grip in general:

 

1) Warmup at a very wide grip. About 10 reps of whatever I'm trying to do.

2) Grab the bar at 1.5 shoulder width and slowly do the movement.

3) If I hear any popping or grinding, I immediately stop and add a couple of inches to my grip width.

4) I repeat #3 until there's no more popping or grinding. That's my starting width grip.

5) Every week or two, I try to shorten the width by a couple of inches making sure there's no popping/grinding nor pain.

 

I hope this helps!

 

 

-Nash

Great info, thanks guys.

Although, if popping is an issue, I would fail mastery of "Getting out of Bed" PE1. Everything in my body cracks and pops no matter what I'm doing.

He he.  Same here. But popping from stressing the movement feels different than the normal everyday popping. 

You Should be aiming for a grip as wide as your hands in a freestanding handstand and make sure it's your scapulae/humerus moving not an arch in your thoracic spine. Keep ribs pulled down and tight. There should be no rotation of the shoulder joint in pe1; Pure flexion. Your traps should be screaming