Planche training and boxing

[Boricua20]

Is planche training beneficial to a boxer in terms of strength? First starting out can it make one slower because they are lifting too much weight which they are struggling to even do one rep even though it is body weight?

[sukhenkoy]

I don't think it is bad; I think it is more beneficial than harmful. That being said, it takes a long time to get at least one planche push-up down, so the amount of time you spend training to get that one planche push-up alone could be put to better use in the boxing gym (via more boxing-oriented exercises that focus on technique).

That being said, if you can do one planche push-up you are pretty damn strong and have quite strong core, so it wouldn't hurt a boxer to have it. Nor do I think it will make you slow because a planche push-up seems pretty explosive in its nature.

I am personally trying to learn how to do handstand pushups, and have been training to do them for about 4 months now. I do it on top of my boxing training simply because its something I want to be able to do.

[fraidycat]

Strength does not make you slow.

[F l i c k e r]

Is planche training beneficial to a boxer in terms of strength? First starting out can it make one slower because they are lifting too much weight which they are struggling to even do one rep even though it is body weight?

That has to be a ***** on the lower back.

[sohel001]

Planche training and boxing

I have this really bad forearm pain which has persisted for a few days. It would be better summed by this

I worked on tuck planche holds last year but gave up as I was getting very bad pains in my left forearm. I've started working on them again recently but the pain still persists.

It only occurs when I train the holds on parallettes. There is no pain while doing the actual hold, but when I release my grip from the parallettes, a very sharp and intense pain shoots up the pinky side of my forearm for a second or two.

I don't get this pain if I do the holds on the floor, and I also don't get it doing any other pressing exercise like weighted ring dips, any pushup variations, handstands or HeSPU.

It started through the push up bars and my trying to hold a tucked planche. It hurt when I released my grip from the push up bars and now it hurts even when I try to do a push up so I think when I get better I have to do two things:

1. Ditch the push up bars for planche training
2. Do wrist, knuckle and fingertip push ups


I not really exactly sure what specific areas that planche works, but once you know those specific areas, I would pull away from the planche, and do supplemental exercises to develop those specific areas. That is how I would approach it. I seen it mentioned by the guy on doing that from time to time when he seems to be stuck on developing a certain skill. I think the last thing I recall was he added weighted dips and a few weeks or months later he pulled off whatever skill he was working on.

That should get you a point of reference on where to start.

[Boricua20]

I appreciate the responses. I have a question regarding the dips. Everytime I attempt to do the dips I feel a sharp pain in the middle of my chest like my ribs are going to poke out my skin. Its weird but I can lean back and the middle of my chest will pop, I think I might have some kind of joint problem. Is that sharp pain when doing dips common or is it just me?