Pushups

[Cort]

Originally Posted by Your_Crazy

Is your arm in the center of your chest or out under your shoulder or backdown by your side when you do the push-ups?

It's under my shoulder where it would be if I were doing a normal push-up. Only major difference is my other arm is behind my back and my legs are farther apart.

Granted I can only hit about 5 like that, not 30+. At the same time I can knock out over 100 with both arms pretty easily.

[mmabjj]

ok- when I do a pushup on one arm, I can bang out 30 to a set. When I do regular pushups, I can bang out 10 to a set. My back is rigid, but since i'm so tall, if I keep my back completely strait when I do a pushup, my legs will usually hit first, and trying to overcompensate by bending my back is probably what is making them that much harder. When I do pushups on one arm, my legs are kinda far apart and my hand is slightly off-center to my chest and my weight is slightly shifted to the side of the hand on the ground. When I started doing them, I used to put my free hand on my back leg, but I found that holding it strait out helped with balance.

[Cort]

Would help if you had a video clip of you doing some regular ones. Try looking up a cheap web host and then posting a small video.

If your lower back is a problem you can help strengthen that by doing deadlifts, stiff-legged deadlifts (or "romanian" deadlifts, which are slightly different.) While 6 feet isn't small it isn't so above average or awkward that you should be having problems.

When doing a push-up with your back straight your legs shouldn't be touching the ground anywhere beyond your feet no matter how tall you are, if they are it is likely that instead of keeping your back straight you are letting it bend too much past the natural arch.