Pseudo Planche Pushups

Start laying down on the ground face down. With your hands slightly turned out and fingertips bent and engaged in order to make these less painful on your wrists, place your hands close to your hips around belly button level. Perform a pushup trying to bring your head up and forward away from your hands. This is much harder than a regular pushup and will hit the shoulders and chest way more than a regular pushup. This will help develop the strength needed to eventually do a Planche, one of the most sought out feats of gymnastics strength.

Trainer Tip: If these are painful on the wrists, try using dumbbells as mini-parallel bars to keep the wrist in a less compromised position. It is ideal to develop strength with both the palms on the ground and using dumbbells or parallel bars.