Resistance bands for planche training

To those who have seen my previous topics you may know what I'm about to say

I know the majority of you will outline the progressions by coach Sommer to be the best approach for the planche but I like to experiment. I personally find this not so useful but I may be doing it wrong. Who knows, this is why I'm trying new ways and methods of how other people have achieved it.

After having a good planche lean I was told to move onto elevated planche leans. I have a resistance band here where I place it on my pull up bar and then put thw actual band at the end of my feet and mimic the planche position. My theory was as I got stronger I could put the resistance band higher up and around my waist eventually. I tried it around my waist and it's quite hard. At my feet it's not so bad. I was wondering if this would help gain the planche too? I have a friend who told me he found the best method for him was to just practice planche leans and he also incorporated resistance bands into his training and he gained a successful straddle planche. What do you guys think? It seems to be working me but I just don't want to rely on the band that's all. I want to come off stronger.

That's actually really interesting how you said about it makes you lazy. When I did it I filmed myself and I did notice my lean wasn't was great. So I did another one with scapula protraction and depressed and it was harder however my scapula sagged so I don't think I've got the necessary strength.

I saw some guy in some group on Facebook saying that he get straddle planche by training planche with resistance bands, there was also a video of him doing tuck planche before and straddle after. It may work for somebody but in my oppinion it is silly and it is to complicated to progress like that.

For more advanced athletes who have already mastered scapular protraction, depression, PPT and properly strengthened the traps/shoulders/elbows/medial gluten - yes.  

 

For beginners like yourself, absolutely not.  All focused band work will do at this stage of your training is reinforce bad habits.

 

Yours in Fitness,

Coach Sommer

I'll stick to the progressions and be patient. Maybe I've just jumped ahead too quick. But I guess practice makes progress