Planche Lean Form check

Hey guys,

I've been working on the foundation elements for a few months and i thought i was making progress on the Planche only to be told that i had been doing all of the progressions wrong (lack of protraction) which i was not aware was so crucial. I have scaled back my Planche training to the Planche lean. My main focus has been protraction as its my weakness. This is a video of me doing a planche lean on my 5th set of 30s (hold in the video is a little shorter than 30sec because i was not timing it with my phone cause i was filming with it ) My hands are also facing completely forward, and not open to the sides. I was wondering if my form is acceptable to move onto the elevated planche lean, or if i should focus on improving my PL further. 

thanks

Matias

Hi Matias, you need to refine the line, a single diagonal line should be showed from shoulders down to hips down to feet. actually you are piking your hips (and consequently you are loosing posterior pelvic tilt), this is a typical compensation when the lean starts to be out of your possibilities, lean as long as you can hold the correct bodyline.

so in other words by butt is to high?

Yes

Is this form acceptable ?

Your body line is good here. It does look like you could push your chest up more, in other words protract more.

Also, make sure that your feet are together, video can be deceiving, but it looks like they are separated when you step forward. Finally, make sure you use something that allows your feet to slide freely forward, it looks like the surface you are on is 'sticky'. This makes the PLL considerably easier.

10 hours ago, Cole Dano said:

Your body line is good here. It does look like you could push your chest up more, in other words protract more.

Also, make sure that your feet are together, video can be deceiving, but it looks like they are separated when you step forward. Finally, make sure you use something that allows your feet to slide freely forward, it looks like the surface you are on is 'sticky'. This makes the PLL considerably easier.

Interesting, I hadn't read this before for the Planche stuff, but makes sense. Would this apply to the Psuedo pushups as well, or not so much?

No need on the PPPu, there's already enough to worry about there