seiyafan Posted May 3, 2012 Share Posted May 3, 2012 I have been doing this exercise for 4 months now, 2-3 times a week, in the beginning I do 5x5, now I pretty much have no improvement, still at 5x5. Or another way to put it, is I still experience the same amount of load and stress. The exercise is I put my leg on a platform that's three and half feet tall so my legs and my upper body are about 90 degrees, and do HSPU on 8'' tall parallets (I used to scale to verify that the weight I am pushing is roughly 80% BW), I go down until my head touches the floor. If I do a normal handstand, I can't lower my body until my head touches floor then push up again. I can only go half way down, maybe 1/3. Is there anything wrong here?By the way, this is not related to rings at all. I posted it in the wrong sub forum. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
seiyafan Posted May 3, 2012 Author Share Posted May 3, 2012 Because currently in that position I am usually at the end of my strength after the 5th one, a few times I can push to 6 or 7. So I am questioning if increasing intensity will help in this case. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
seiyafan Posted May 3, 2012 Author Share Posted May 3, 2012 Well, I am doing the first variation of HeSPU in the book except my hands are on parallets, so I am actually increasing the ROM. The reason was because I thought this could help me progress to the real HeSPU quicker, but after a couple of months I don't see much progress. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
seiyafan Posted May 3, 2012 Author Share Posted May 3, 2012 I see now. how about without PBs?I just tried it and I did 12 (this is after I just worked out so I guess I can do 15+ when fresh) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
seiyafan Posted May 3, 2012 Author Share Posted May 3, 2012 I just have my fingers pointing forward and go down naturally, I did not pay attention to my elbow. Somehow when I do a handstand against the wall and go down, and my forearms start to go to the side and that's when I start to feel discomfort in my wrist. So to reduce the pain I usually have my hands placed such as fingers are pointing more inward, so the hand can line up more naturally with forearm. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
seiyafan Posted May 3, 2012 Author Share Posted May 3, 2012 Don't have a camera with me now, I guess I will try something else in my next work out day. Thanks! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
seiyafan Posted May 8, 2012 Author Share Posted May 8, 2012 I just tried a handstand against a wall, lowered myself to the floor and as soon as I felt my hair touched the carpet, I pushed myself up. Then I repeated one more time. There's hope after all. Thank for everyone's support! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Joshua Naterman Posted May 8, 2012 Share Posted May 8, 2012 Doing HSPU work on paralletes (assuming they are actually parallel) is way harder because it is nearly impossible to stick your elbows out. Shoulders and upper back have to do a huge amount of the work unless you are arching, so there will be slow progress on that. I can do full ROM on cinder blocks with my fingers maybe 20 degrees turned out, but can't even do 1 HeSPU on paralletes. It is HARD! Don't stop doing the PB work, treat that as your strength and treat the floor stuff as endurance. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
seiyafan Posted May 8, 2012 Author Share Posted May 8, 2012 Agreed, I have been trying out a few different things and I think together they provided different muscle stimulation that contributed to an overall gain. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
seiyafan Posted May 8, 2012 Author Share Posted May 8, 2012 Doing HSPU work on paralletes (assuming they are actually parallel) is way harder because it is nearly impossible to stick your elbows out. That's why I put them more like / \ shape. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rik de Kort Posted May 8, 2012 Share Posted May 8, 2012 Doing HSPU work on paralletes (assuming they are actually parallel) is way harder because it is nearly impossible to stick your elbows out. That's why I put them more like / \ shape. Cheater! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
seiyafan Posted May 8, 2012 Author Share Posted May 8, 2012 In some of the sets I also put them both horizontal like - - , or / \ or | | (wide) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Brian Li Posted May 9, 2012 Share Posted May 9, 2012 Speaking of HSPU variations, have anyone here done narrow grip triceps HSPU before. I never seen or heard of anyone doing these before, but I think they are possible. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rik de Kort Posted May 9, 2012 Share Posted May 9, 2012 Vassily does those: I think Vagabond on these forums is working them as well, but I'm not sure. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Brian Li Posted May 11, 2012 Share Posted May 11, 2012 Yeah, but I mean with full range of motion like from a single bar or paralletes or something instead of headstand ROM. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rik de Kort Posted May 11, 2012 Share Posted May 11, 2012 Your upper body would have to travel forward a lot and as a result you'd get a lot of planching. So I think it'd become like a close-grip bower. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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