Power Push ups ?Power pull-ups...need a resistance band.
What are you using? Long enough to wrap over the back down to the hands and decent resistance level for Q&D practitioner using a 40kg kettlebell for 1 arm swings and a 32kg for the snatch protocol.
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Power Push ups ?
Roger that. I was thinking the OP might have mistyped. Could not figure out the band around the back and down to the hands on a pull up.Plans for Building Powerful Pushups | StrongFirst
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What you said, and could try a light band with elevated feet. Bands with feet on a Swiss ball require some focus.I'm also assuming you mean power PUSH UPS.
For banded push ups, any regular Jump Stretch style bands work. Most of mine are from Elitefts, but they're a pretty generic item.
For Q&D, I think for most people there's a lot to milk out of power pushups with just bodyweight. Are you keeping your elbows in tight and connected to your lats? Are you freefalling on the negative ("playing chicken with the floor") and really exploding up on the positive? How long does it take you to do a set of 10 with full lockout at the top and just brushing your chest to the floor? If it's more than 9 seconds, you still have some room to work. Are you still as fast at the end of series 5 as you are at the start of series 1? In not, you still have some room to work.
Since speed and explosion are so important for Q&D power pushups, I'd start with very light band tension and progress from there. A mini band at most, and you might even try a micro mini to start. Then a monster mini or a micro and mini together. The light band seems like a lot of resistance for multiple series of power pushups, even for someone extremely strong and would make them a lot more grindy. But who knows -- I'm not anywhere near there and haven't worked with or observed any REALLY strong presser do power pushups to get a clearer idea of the possibilities. Also, if you find that you WANT to choose a slower, grindier form of push ups with more resistance and don't mind trading off speed (which I can see being a reasonable choice to at least explore), then that changes the equation.
Huh, I completely misread OP. I read PUSH up as well.Roger that. I was thinking the OP might have mistyped. Could not figure out the band around the back and down to the hands on a pull up.
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Wait, you take your hands off the mat at the bottom? That doesn't sound right for Q&D power pushups.Hahaha! Sorry everyone! Yes, I meant to write power PUSH ups. Another example of a failure to proof read before posting.
Thank you all for your input.
In answer to Steve's question I basically free fall, stopping just before impact, lie my upper body on the mat , take my hands off the mat and begin rep 2..repeat as necessary. I've not timed it, but it seems pretty quick...and tiring.
She's a high level boxer, knuckle push ups are good for striking. And I believe she had some thumb issues.It should go without saying for anyone who has read the book, but the push ups can be done on fists or palms.
I prefer palms.
You can also keep your hands rooted at the top or allow your hands to "jump" off the floor at the top.
I prefer to stay rooted. I don't chase the jump because I want to focus on full extension and lockout at the top, and I find my tendency is to cut the lockout short if I am consciously trying to jump. I enjoy that moment of planked up tension at the top, even if it is very brief, to contrast with the relaxation and free fall to initiate the drop.
Intense.On a side note, for whatever it's worth...Sonny Puzikas, in his "Forge" workout says to use fists only when doing push ups. That using palms puts undo stress on the wrists and elbows. Of course he advocates 30 minute planks and doing pistols standing on a kettlebell...
Which is the more "difficult" way to get a bell overhead, a snatch or a get up? Which do you use in Q&D?They were definitely not as difficult as taking ones hands off the mat at the bottom of each rep.
They were not nearly as difficult as lowering the body very slowly and then exploding upward each rep.
So...if someone can explain, in layman's terms what the benefits are in doing them as per the video as opposed to the other methods I'd greatly appreciate it.