Critique

Here is my tuck planche, elbow lever and bridge. Go ahead and tell me what i need to do to improve.

thanks y'all

On the elbow lever just try and flatten everything out. Looking in front of you helps with this.

Everything else looks good, nice job.

Nice tuck planche and bridge.

I want to practice my tuck planche, but I have pain in my forearm.

I think lifting your eyes a little and keeping your knees a little closer to your chest may help on the tuck planche as well. I envy your bridge, your chest looks really open. I wish mine was like that.

Pretty good for # 1 and 3. Keep on working at it!

thanks y'all. the EL is coming along. thanks for all the tips

Animalhands,

The elbow lever is nice! Ideally it is, as mentioned above, flat, though were you doing mayurasana the preferred state is even bowed upward into slight shalabasana.

It might help to bring knees, ankles, inner edges of the feet together to initiate internal rotation of the thighs --- sorta "zip it up" from navel to toes. This will broaden your glutes, let your sacrum move, and let you lift to bring the legs and chest up to level or past it.

Same issue, incidentally, with bridge --- feet look a little supinated to me, which suggests legs are abducting or pulling open, or outer edges of quads are overpowering inner edges.

So in bridge, try lifting your toes off the floor, then grounding the big toe and the ball of the big toe while leaving the other toes up. Should juice up your inner legs nicely.

If you want to work skills similar to planche while in bridge, you can practice shrugging the shoulders away from your ears, and broadening your shoulder blades --- though can't tell much with regards to this 'cause of the shirt!

We could discuss why these are desirable for bridging if you want to get anatomically and mechanically in depth, but usually trying it works better.

Looking good, can't wait to see additional photos!

regards,

jason