One arm Push ups...

[Arvid_85]

Just watched Rocky 1 and the rest, and i am impressed with the one arm pushups. I just do with both arms, and i wonder if someone has a tip on how to progress to do one arms, because its hard to "just do it"?... My own speculation is that to do pushups every other day, about five to six times a week, to increase the stamina. But i don´t know if it should all be done in one rep or have about three reps. Then i wonder if bench press is something, but that isn´t good to do to often.
Some comments on this?

[Heavy D]

I'm really not too sure, but I do know that if you do something every other day, you'll have a hard time doing it 5 or 6 times a week. You'd probably wind up doing it 3 or 4 times a week instead.

Otherwise, it'd seem like its just a natural progression from doing your pushups and other tricep/chest exercise. Once your arms are strong enough, doing one armed pushups will essentially double the workload for each individual arm.

[Von Milash]

I hate those 12-day work weeks.

[Scrap]

It will make you punch slower, and shorten your triceps tendons and it dont helpthe vertibrae upper 4 and 5 a great deal.

[Ali_UK]

hey Scrap!

Yea guys Scrap knows what hes talking about.

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[Howlin Mad Missy]

you don't get the strength to do one arm push ups by doing two arm push ups. There is a technique to it and if you do a search through the past threads it should bring it up. You need to approach it like a power lifter, low reps a couple of times a day should do the trick.

But to begin with. Do a 1 arm press up against the wall, take your feet shoulder width apart, your spare arm loosely on your lower back. You need to focus on not dipping the opposite shoulder to arm and your back straight as you lower, when you push up your arm should corkscrew a little. Now I figure for most of you the wall will be easy. So go lower on a window sill, then a table, side of the bath then the floor! whatever is around you.

[MichaelJA]

You can also go from the two arm push-ups to the diamond pushups which target mainly your triceps. It gets you use to the form of your arm going down to the floor and back up as doing one arm pushups do. Only difference is your are using two arms, but you take that one arm away and you will see how diffucult it really is. lol. If you dont know what a diamond pushup is just place your hands together on the floor in front of your face, not out to the side like a bench press pushup. Connect your thumbs and index fingers to where they are touching one another to make a somewhat diamond shape with your hands. Then go down and push your way back up. After you get use to them, try getting the tip of your nose into the middle of the hole/diamond shape you create with your hands.

Just a different technique. Have fun.