Full Planche On Floor Critique

[Paolo]

I want my planche to look like this:

http://www.lostartofhandbalancing.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/07/Top-Planche-Fingers-Facing-Forward1.bmp

Is there such thing as being too hollow?

I apologize for my feet being cut off, but I can do an "almost respectable" full planche on p-bars for 2-3 seconds.

Thanks!

[Rik de Kort]

Video is private.

[Paolo]

Video is private.

I fixed it

[Yaad Mohammad]

The only problem I see is that you are piked.

[Brian Li]

Pretty good! Your getting close to perfect full lay you just need to get a bit stronger in the shoulders. A cue that sort of helps me hold the planche is by squeezing your arms toward each other while still protracting. Keep up with the great work!

Could you also hold it with fingers pointing back? How did you condition your wrists for fingers forward?

[Paolo]

The only problem I see is that you are piked.

Yeah, I know. That's pretty obvious.

Pretty good! Your getting close to perfect full lay you just need to get a bit stronger in the shoulders. A cue that sort of helps me hold the planche is by squeezing your arms toward each other while still protracting. Keep up with the great work!

Could you also hold it with fingers pointing back? How did you condition your wrists for fingers forward?

My hands aren't completely forward. They are slightly turned to the side. Otherwise the "heels" of my hands would be off the ground like the acrobat in the picture. To be honest, the day I recorded it was the very first time I tried it on floor in months. I strained my wrist from doing straddle planche on floor, so for the past couple of months, I only used p-bars. I stopped practicing hands backward because I also strained my biceps doing that lol. For hands backwards, I can do advanced tucked. My goal is to eventually master the planche in every hand position. There are plenty of wrist pre-hab videos out there on YouTube that can answer your question better than I can.

[Joshua Naterman]

Yeah, I know. That's pretty obvious.

My hands aren't completely forward. They are slightly turned to the side. Otherwise the "heels" of my hands would be off the ground like the acrobat in the picture. To be honest, the day I recorded it was the very first time I tried it on floor in months. I strained my wrist from doing straddle planche on floor, so for the past couple of months, I only used p-bars. I stopped practicing hands backward because I also strained my biceps doing that lol. For hands backwards, I can do advanced tucked. My goal is to eventually master the planche in every hand position. There are plenty of wrist pre-hab videos out there on YouTube that can answer your question better than I can.

Definitely take it easy on the hands back position, it is legitimately harder because you have no cantilever AND it stresses muscles that fingers forward does not work super hard!

My suggestion would be to get in a planche lean with feet supported so that you're parallel with the ground. Just find the hardest position you can hold for at least 5-7 seconds and do so for time. I will suggest building up to where 15 seconds is not a maximal hold before you move forward, and take your time with progression! There won't be much weight on your feet at this point, and this will be an "easy" way to discover exactly where you need work AND a quick way to get into position so that you can learn the final straight body!

Again, take your time with progression! You aren't super far off from a solid floor planche, but it can still be easy to hurt yourself because by using the above suggestion along with whatever else you are doing, you will develop the strength to hold the position before it is safe for you to actually do so on a regular basis.

[Blairbob]

Besides the piked hips, your hips are high. 15 degrees?

Keep up the good work!

[Brian Li]

My hands aren't completely forward. They are slightly turned to the side. Otherwise the "heels" of my hands would be off the ground like the acrobat in the picture. To be honest, the day I recorded it was the very first time I tried it on floor in months. I strained my wrist from doing straddle planche on floor, so for the past couple of months, I only used p-bars. I stopped practicing hands backward because I also strained my biceps doing that lol. For hands backwards, I can do advanced tucked. My goal is to eventually master the planche in every hand position. There are plenty of wrist pre-hab videos out there on YouTube that can answer your question better than I can.

Even PB hurts my wrists, I would have to turn them out if they were paralletes or push-up handles lol. Even a tuck planche with fingers forward hurts my wrists pretty bad. I have always trained planche with the fingers back.