The One Hand Pushup

[TKD_McGee]

You start off by having your whole body on the floor. Lean on your side with one of your arms across the floor parallel to your left color bone. Then push up with your other hand like a push-up motion while lifting one of your legs over the other. The idea is to get all of your weight on one leg and one arm, then push up with the other arm...

 

Anyways, ive read this in may books.. Is it effective?

 

 

[KickChick]

Highly!

 

That is if you can do it!

 

 

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hey mcgee, the description of the one-handed-press up is quite different to why i thought would have been, but i cant do it, so suggest your description is correct

 

i never knew you had to put on foot over the other

 

i thought in order to perform that press up, you would first be in the normal position, where both hands are on the floor, in parralel with your collar bones and shoulders, and you would but on hand behind your back, focus the hand on the floor, and but it in the center in parralel with your head/chest, for stability, and then push down in a press-up motion, well i am unable to perform this task, but does that sound correct??

 

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[SBN Doug]

We don't do the one handed ones. We mainly do the backs of the hands (in four directions), five fingered, two fingered, and if able one fingered push ups.

[Jiggy9]

Which finger do you do it of KSN Doug?

[SBN Doug]

The one you have to use on the roads the most up here in New England. LOL

 

Just kidding, I do the thumb.

[TKD_McGee]

I actually read the One Arm Push-up technique in a book called Training for Martial Arts. It has the picture of a big sweaty muscle guy on the front. Inside there is a beefed up dude and a hot asian woman showing you how to do everything needed for Martial Arts. I just said Cross your legs because thats how I do it, and it makes it harder to do...

 

Basically just go on your side with one of your arms on the ground and one of your arms on the side like your watching the TV while lying on the floor. Then take your arm that is on the floor and put that elbow down with the arm out away from your body. Lift yourself up on that arm and put one leg on top of the other. Now with the arm that is on the side of your body, place on the floor. Then push up in a 90 degree motion I believe.. The arm that is pushing's shoulder should touch the ground and go back up until your face is facing the TV that you should be looking at.

 

I hope that cleared things up.

 

 

[AnonymousOne]

Try doing one arm push ups that bounces you off the ground and then land again on one hand without falling over.

 

This puts a plyometric element into the movement

 

 

[YODA]

Plyometrics are great!

 

I'm a bit confused with the "Bounce you of the ground" bit. Do you mean you push up explosively so that your hand leaves the ground at extention? (Makes sense) or that you bounce your chest of the floor?

 

 

[AnonymousOne]

Yes you bounce completely off the floor