One Armed push ups

Oooooh, cool question/goal. I've never thought about that before. I know you have to put your feet wide. I think you should work on some diamond pushups (put your hands together to make a diamond). But other than that, I think I would work on a progression similar to what you would do just to work up to real pushups. Start on the wall, then move to a counter/stairs. Try it from your knees and so on. Be sure to work on both arms so you don't end up all wonky.

I'm going to have try this too! Sounds fun!  

I'm going to try them tonight. I leave in 10 minutes to go strength train. I'll see if I can do one...

I think it would be cool to do them. I wonder if that is harder than lifting one foot up and doing them.

Diamond shape...hands together, shoulder are the wide part? then feet together? 

Back in the spring doing my sets of push ups were easy and not hard so I asked my coach for options to make them tougher...elevate your feet on a bench or hold onto an upside down I think it is called bosu thing...wobbly and hard. 

No way can I do one. I couldn't even figure out how to balance my body doing one with my knees down. I can do regular push ups with one foot lifted though.

I need to watch someone do them or see how to do it better..but I think I'd need to be way stronger than I am. 

All I know is that you have to have a really wide stance with your feet. I would try one right now, but my arms are toast after my workout tonight!

BTW: How cool is it that a bunch of girls are sitting around talking about 1-arm pushups!?  

One day when you have some free time go into a book store and sit and read Pavel Tsatsouline's "Naked Warrior." He has an in-depth discussion on doing one-armed push ups. There's definitely a technique to it. I read the book once a while ago. I think one of his tips is to spread your legs far apart to get a triangular base.

Doing lots of regular push ups will certainly help, but the one-armed version is a different animal given the balance issues. Basically, to get better at one-armed push ups, you need to train the movement. You do that by doing easier versions of one-armed push ups. For instance, start by doing one-armed push ups against a wall, then against a bench, then against a lower bench, then finally on the floor.

Very cool, Thanks!! Ever since I saw Jillian do them on the intro to Biggest Loser, I've wanted to be able to do them. They look so bad a--!!

Plus, since I need to strengthen my upper body anyway, I figure it's a good goal.

You want to see something COOL? (speaking of handstands...)

http://www.monkeybargym.com/handstand-stair-walks-2.html

this is cool too for low tech exercises:

http://www.monkeybargym.com/monkey-bar-gymnasium-playground-workout-2.html 

wow...i thought i was good because i can easily do 3 sets of 10 "man" push-ups.

i'll have to try to 1 armed ones...i know i can't, but's it's fun to try. i know my next progression is one legged...you can even do them on the bosu ball, that makes it a bit tougher!

Those are amazing workouts that Monkey Bar guy..wow!

I agree tri year ruining type events...hand stand maybe against the wall I could do..maybe? 

In the magazine Maximum Fitness I saw a workout that had a SPIDERMAN PUSHUP.  This video shows a modified version, but you can imagine the same thing done from the toes.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x044NvSg4Yw&feature=related

Could be something to work for also. 

Perhaps work on doing T-Pushups too:

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I'll up you that: try doing that push up while gripping kettle bells- So your hands have to grip and balance on the KB, and then when you do the rotation, you also have to lift the KB. 

(Not that I can do it, but I know this guy....)