Aaron Griffin Posted June 27, 2012 Share Posted June 27, 2012 Whenever I see people do handstand presses with a decent forward lean, the wrist flexibility seems amazing. I have nowhere near that wrist/arm angle.Are planche leans the best way to build up this flexibility, or are there other ways to develop this? Anything you got would be helpful Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Banzas Posted June 27, 2012 Share Posted June 27, 2012 Turn out a little bit your hands, it'll become much easier to lean. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
yuri marmerstein Posted June 27, 2012 Share Posted June 27, 2012 The best thing to do would be to achieve enough active flexibility and technique to not have to lean forward in the press. Otherwise, just gradually stretch the wrists and work on leaning them forward more. Soft tissue work of the forearm will help in this scenario as well Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Aaron Griffin Posted June 27, 2012 Author Share Posted June 27, 2012 The best thing to do would be to achieve enough active flexibility and technique to not have to lean forward in the press. My straddle compression is terrible, so I figured I could meet half way by increasing my lean while improving the straddle.Otherwise, just gradually stretch the wrists and work on leaning them forward more. Soft tissue work of the forearm will help in this scenario as wellDo you have any specific advice? I do some half-assed (kneeling) leans 3-4 nights a week before bed, and have been working some of the stomach-to-wall planche leans you suggested in another thread (which has a forward lean component). I'll look into forearm SMR, I didn't even consider that Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Vagabond Posted June 27, 2012 Share Posted June 27, 2012 I think the best way would be to keep increasing your pike flexibility. You can do like you said, but you definitely need a very good pike flexibility for gymnastics. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mikko Saks Posted June 27, 2012 Share Posted June 27, 2012 My wrist flexibility was very poor before, but when i started doing hs presses on floor, it got better quickly. So i guess your wrists adapt to that sort of stuff and get more flexible. Also what yuri said is very true, overall flexibility helps alot since you dont have to lean forward so much to compensate for the poor flexibility. Of course on pbars/parallettes its not a problem since you dont need that much wrist flexibility on those, and i did most of the training on those when i was training for the press. Plus. you get sort of an embedded work on you swings if you do those negatives on pbars Just swing to HS and slowly lower to L-sit. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Martin de Jesus Ponce Robaldino Posted June 28, 2012 Share Posted June 28, 2012 The best thing to do would be to achieve enough active flexibility and technique to not have to lean forward in the press. Otherwise, just gradually stretch the wrists and work on leaning them forward more. Soft tissue work of the forearm will help in this scenario as wellX2Actually i'm doing a big volume of HS, and my forearms began to feel tigh...SMR for the forearms (wrists flexor and extensor will be the solution)http://www.robertsontrainingsystems.com ... manual.pdfJust go to the Wrists forearms sectionThe whole manual is gold.... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Banzas Posted June 28, 2012 Share Posted June 28, 2012 Sorry for the "meh" answer yesterday, I was in a hurry and that was the first thing that came to my mind.Yuri and the others are competely right about straddle and pike active flexibility and I also heard that good shoulder flexibility would help with this issue.Since my active flexibility is not that good yet I have to turn out my hands a little bit so that I can lean for the press but I must work on it!Good luck! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ian Legrow Posted June 28, 2012 Share Posted June 28, 2012 I have found that doing box presses definitely helped my wrists adjust. Volume was a big help too. Obviously not until you are in a great deal of pain, but the more you do the more your wrists get used to it. Find the happy medium, a few months ago i trained toom hard andn hurt my wrist for a week...and still continued training. It was stupid of me to do, but just find the happy medium between smart and stupid like i was. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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