Wrist Push Ups

[David Mitti]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-145yvwqxY0

Been working on these to help with wrist flexibility for hand balancing work.

Anyone else ever use these and if so what do you feel that they did for you??

[Jose Cabrera]

Ive done em one handed, mikes a witness; they didnt do shit for me other than give me a lil more pain tolernce. They are cool lookin though. Pretty cool homage to Jackie Chan but not much else.

[Mike Sharkey]

I love these. Flipper push ups. I can do them with my fingers pointed toward my toes. I find its a good contraspecific for grip work, as it seems to release some tension from closing the hand so much.

Even just holding a plank is good this way.

And yes, Jose can do these one handed.

[MRabich]

I can do about 20 of those on the carpet, moving to hard floor makes them painful and reduces number of reps. I will attempt one arm one.

[lifesnotfair]

Please take my words lightly as I have never done what I am about to say: I clearly remember a very well known gymnastics instructor and author recommending push-ups for wrist strength and flexibility, for both flexors and extensors. For the flexors, you do a regular push-up, but at the top of it you "flex" the wrist, leaving only your fingers making contact with the ground (at the same time making the palm of your hand in-line with your forearm, or close to it). You can see why this makes it flexible.

Now the interesting part: for the extensors he recommended a push-up that starts similar to the video posted by the Original Poster, BUT, at the top of it, you extend your wrists, leaving you in a possition very similar to a "fist push-up",, or very similar to it, with again the palm of your hands in-line with your forearm. I never did this but I could see how it could create quite some strength in the wrist extensors to do it. I hope my description makes any sense.