Freestanding HeSPUs carryover to other exercises

[Andreas Bolz]

I started working on freestanding HeSPUs a while ago and can now do 3 reps. It's by far my favorite pushing exercise and as it demands a whole lot of work to get good and stable at I thought about doing them as the only pushing exercise in my program (4-5 times a week). I get that the chest won't get worked that much but as it was always my strong part anyway I figured that wouldn't hurt.

 

My question now is, what will happen when I get back to the gym in a couple of months? Let's say my freestanding HeSPU will have increased from 3 to 20 reps by then. Will my bench-, dips-, press- (off the chest)  numbers have decreased? Stayed the same or even increased as my core, shoulders and triceps should be stronger by then?

 

Thanks in advance.

[Mouclier Victor]

Yes i think, you should not think movements musles by muscles but if it's pushing or pulling motion.

So if you can do HSPUs the you got a stronger pushing strenght than before !

 

remember than bodyweight strenght training carryover to weightlifting but not the reverse.

 

sorry, my English isn't really good.

[Connor Davies]

HeSPU work the chest more than you might think.

If you really accomplish 7 times max reps, I'm pretty sure your bench will have gone up.