Warrior'sSuite Posted July 7, 2012 Share Posted July 7, 2012 I abandoned horizontal pushups because i couldnt put any more weight on safely. I always did them declined btw, not with hands and feet on the floor. I was doing them with 20 or 25kg and i could go heavier but it was just dangerous and unstable to put on more weight. I had plates in a flimsy backpack and the whole thing was a hassle putting it on and off.But now i just thought about something: i thought about using any kind of bag (rice bag, coffee, punching etc.) and make it weigh whatever you want, and then use ropes or whatever and hang it from something (parallel bars even, or just from the ceiling). The idea is to get under it and put it on your back and do pushups. This would be the safest thing i think because it is suspended and it cant fall off and you dont even have to take it off or put it on and spend energy doing that. You'll have to hang it so you can go the lowest you can in the pushup with the bag still hanging so the weight is never off of you.This should work right? And i imagine you can use more weight than you ever could with other methods where you have to put it on somehow. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Daniel Burnham Posted July 8, 2012 Share Posted July 8, 2012 Should work but I would worry that it would make you want to arch more to get the weight off of you. Why are you needed so much weight anyway? Why not just use a harder progression and progress towards the planche pushup? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Warrior'sSuite Posted July 8, 2012 Author Share Posted July 8, 2012 Should work but I would worry that it would make you want to arch more to get the weight off of you. Why are you needed so much weight anyway? Why not just use a harder progression and progress towards the planche pushup?I did replace them with PPP, but i just like full ROM pushups a lot. I feel they work my chest more than PPP, well right now anyways. Also with ppp it's easy to do them wrong/make them easy, but not with these.I need more weight because 25kg were already easy.I dont think i would arch, i never try to cheat and i try to always maintain good form.And of course im training for the PL and then PL pushups but right now im only in the frogstand so i cant even do tuck pl pushups. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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