So I’ve been trying to incorporate some plyometrics as a means to get faster (and stronger) with some other GPP to just also improve general fitness levels.
Something I’ve noticed is that when I try do plyo push-ups I just can’t do any. I can do like 40 push-ups consecutively and bench 225 for a few reps but when I try do a clapping push-up or even just explosive so my hands leave the floor it just doesn’t happen. When I do try and maybe part of my hand leaves the floor my triceps just feel in a lot of pain (achy feeling).
Now I’ve seen rather out of shape guys be able to do clapping push-ups but they could probably not even do 10+ push-ups so I’m somewhat confused. I know they are different types of strengths but can my explosive strength really be that poor?
Is this a hindrance for lifting and how would I go about improving it or does it not really matter? I just find it rather odd that I lack the explosive power when I’ve seen on TV very out of shape guys be able to do one or two.
If powerlifting is your chosen sport explosiveness alone is not the limiting factor but explosivness will obviously hold you back to some degree more so, if your sport was Oly lifting or Strongman. With that if it is truely that bad for you I would definetly work on it. Trying adding some DE work against bands for your bench and incline press. That should help I would think could be wrong though. But makes since to me and is what I would do.
Do pushups so that you lose contact with the floor, but don’t clap your hands. Do them on a bench for a month or two, 6x3, twice a week. Then try them on the floor again.
[quote]michael_xyz wrote:
So I’ve been trying to incorporate some plyometrics as a means to get faster (and stronger) with some other GPP to just also improve general fitness levels.
Something I’ve noticed is that when I try do plyo push-ups I just can’t do any. I can do like 40 push-ups consecutively and bench 225 for a few reps but when I try do a clapping push-up or even just explosive so my hands leave the floor it just doesn’t happen. When I do try and maybe part of my hand leaves the floor my triceps just feel in a lot of pain (achy feeling).
Now I’ve seen rather out of shape guys be able to do clapping push-ups but they could probably not even do 10+ push-ups so I’m somewhat confused. I know they are different types of strengths but can my explosive strength really be that poor?
Is this a hindrance for lifting and how would I go about improving it or does it not really matter? I just find it rather odd that I lack the explosive power when I’ve seen on TV very out of shape guys be able to do one or two.[/quote]
Hey mate, I find it odd to believe you can do 40 push-ups and bench 200+ without being able to do clapping push-ups. When I used to box we did a lot of explosive workouts, and to me - it sounds more that you lack conditioning not explosiveness.
With conditioning I don’t mean cardio-like conditioning, but your joints/muscles/arms etcetc aren’t used to ‘shock’ caused by landing. Because if I read your post correctly, It’s NOT the exploding upwards that causes problems, but the ‘rebound’, right?
Well to be fair it’s just pushing myself away - the clap isn’t really “necessary”, just easier to talk about clapping push-ups.
My conditioning is not great, no, because I’ve never really done anything like this.
You raise a good point about the shock aspect. As mentioned, I feel a lot of strain in my triceps when I try it. However, I can only really maybe slightly push myself off for 1 rep and then I’m just out. My triceps feel like they’ve gone through 50 reps of tricep extensions and just achy feeling which doesn’t let me do another.
However the main issue is the explosiveness because, regardless, I still can’t properly push myself far away enough.
I’m not bothered by this btw. It’s more that improving this aspect may really benefit my training (or not at all)
I will try doing it on a bench and see how that goes. At a small incline I can do it fairly fine.