Regulation Perfect One Arm Push Up - Take 2

Take 2 of the Regulation Perfect One Arm Push Up (RPOAPU) challenge. Read the description and see the first attempts here - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6be97lMZUPM

After that first video, I was told this skill and challenge needed to be more of a multi-joint movement, instead of the single-joint movements I was doing.

Today, I tried grooving the skill on a bar in a power rack and progressively lowering it.

The first clip shows the bar about an inch off the ground. The second clip, I swung the camera around best I could to show another angle. I also put my feet up on a mat to get it more in line with my hand.

Arms were a bit tired after all the attempts, so that's all for today. Taking a break from this for the next week in prep for a powerlifting contest.

Leave your comments! Thanks!

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• RPOAPU
• push up
• bodyweight
• strength

[YTvoyeur1]

Hey Jim I saw the video of your first attempt, but now it youtube says it has been removed. What happened?

[BeastSkills]

@YTvoyeur1 I took it down. I thought that this showed closer technique to what they wanted.

[YunTraining]

1-arm pushups, snatches in the background. I like this gym!

[BeastSkills]

@YunTraining That would be my buddy and Oly lifting coach, Mike, in the background. Snatches, cleans, squats, and deadlifts pretty much occur throughout the entire day at the gym. I love it.

[manmadeSniper4]

I have been watching a few "one arm pushup" videos and they all have one leg way out wide for balance, which I can do without much of an issue. How much harder is a regulation one arm pushup?. Please bear in mind I`m only 16. Thanks

[326Remitius]

dead kennedys!!

[LCplGoodfellas]

Thank God someone actually knows how to do correct 1 arm pushups, everyone I've seen is like "yeah I can do those no problem!" and end up getting down and twisting their body in some freakish triangle, wobbling up on weak arms to get one sloppy "push up". You're one of the few elite!

[sokseb]

Doing proper one-arm pushups the same way you do proper regular pushups or a proper bench press is really hard, I have not seen anyone do it so far. Even demonstration clips put their arm too far forward and twist the body to recruit the shoulders and triceps more. Glad someone is trying though. (I don't think it's physiologically impossible, you'd just have to be able to bench press around twice your body weight while lowering the weight to under your chest, strict).

[hisnameisfrankie]

Well done. Properly done. Proper one arm pushups are really core exercises. Hey try this: your regular shoulder width pushup, but such that when you are in your regular fingers-pointing-forward position your thumbs are pointing approximately horizontally at your navel rather than at your upper chest. In other words, you're pushing up from the hips. Some people point their palms backward but I don't. Elevate legs and go again. Elevate legs on ball and go again.

[MrMbogza]

how do your elbows not explode from doing this ? lol

[dchen345]

This is crap.

[ConnorRunsFree]

Now that is a REAL one arm pushup.

[ReaLEvZ]

lol how the hguy at the back nearly died lifting up that dumbell LOL

[nunh]

Awesome and incredible!