How To Achieve The Majestic Triple Clap Push Up?

1 clap? Not satisfied yet? 2 claps? Pretty cool man, but you can do even better. 3 CLAPS!? AWESOME! In this article I'm going to show tell you exactly how I went from being able to nothing more crazy than simple Clap Push Ups, to being able to do the Triple Clap Push Up!

Being able to do nothing but Clap Push Ups and also having seen a guy named Jacob (cool guy by the way) do the triple Clap Push Up with ease, I decided to make that exercise my new goal after the summer of 2015. I wanted to learn that exercise, because it looked so damn awesome and to me it looked like it required tremendous strength to do it. And it does require a lot of strength! But not only strength. You see, when you train for an exercise like the Triple Clap Push Up, it requires more than just strength. A Push Up pretty much is the Bench press exercise of Bodyweight training. However, a guy who is able to bench press way more weight than his own body weight doesn't necessarily have the power or more precisely the "explosiveness" to do for example a Triple Clap Push Up. And why is that? That's because that specific guy probably hasn't been training for anything else than a heavy bench press. Unless he focuses on pushing the weight up as fast as he can, he trains nothing but his strength, not explosiveness.

When you train for the Triple Clap Push Up, you need to train explosively. I used to think that if I just kept doing as many push ups each time I trained, one day the Triple Clap Push Up would come to me all by itself. But I was wrong. Man I was so wrong. I started studying and I found out that in order to learn the triple Clap Push Up, you need to work with low, but very powerfull and explosive reps. Back then I had just been doing up to 50, 70 even more than 100 reps of push ups in each set I did, confident that I would soon achieve the Triple Clap Push Up.

To help you avoid the mistake I made and the time I wasted on way too many push ups, I will share my personal "Triple Clap Push Up Tutorial". This is exactly how I achieved it myself.

Triple Clap Push Up Tutorial

So first of all I just really quick want to tell you what a Triple Clap Push Up exactly is.

It is a push up, where you push so hard off the ground that you push your upper body into the air. Then when you are in the air, you clap in front of you, then you quickly clap behind your back and then before your hands meet the ground again, you clap one more time in front of you.

So just to say it in a more simple way: Push your upper body into the air -> 1 Front Clap -> 1 Back Clap -> 1 Front Clap -> your hands land on the ground again.

That's a triple Clap Push Up. I have some videos of myself doing Triple Clap Push Ups on my Instagram, so if you want to see it in reality, go check out my Instagram.

But now for the tutorial for the Triple Clap Push Up!

The Triple Clap Push Up is in my opinion, one of the most easy-to-plan exercises out of all the bodyweight exercises I have learned. I think so, because when I started pursuing the Triple Clap Push Up, I did 7 “steps” as I call them myself. Then after I had achieved the Triple Clap Push Up, I reflected over my journey, where I went from a complete newbie in the world of Explosive Push Ups to a guy who can now do Triple Clap Push Ups wherever and whenever I want to.

Follow these steps and I guarantee that you will learn the Triple Clap Push-Up. Just remember to be patient, persistent, hardworking, disciplined and obsessed! LET’S GO!

1. Learn how to do regular push-ups first. Start slow and practice the movement with perfect and controlled form. Aim to do at least 50 regular, perfect form push ups, before progressing on to number 2.

2. Begin to do your push-ups more explosively. Extract your muscles as fast as you can. (Think of it like this: when you are doing a push up, you push as fast and as hard as you can, trying to make your hands leave the floor for a moment. Your goal is to make your triceps used to being explosive). Be able to do at least 10 perfect form reps, where your hands leave the floor, before progressing on to number 3.

3. Clap Push Up! Try and do a Front Clap Push Up. Be able to do at least 20 perfect form reps, before moving on to number 4.

4. Raised Back Clap Push Up. Try and do Back Clap Push Ups, but on a bench, or something similar. Really just something that is raised from the ground, so that it isn’t as hard to do the Back Clap Push Up. Doing this will give you the feeling of a real/true Back Clap Push Up. In the beginning it can be difficult to move your hands all the way around your back and clap, but keep on trying and eventually you’ll get it! It's also a matter of increasing your mobility and flexibility, since it is an unnatural position for most peoples' arms and hands to move all the way to their back and even make a clap with a sound. Go for 12 perfect form reps, before moving on.

5. Time for a real Back Clap Push Up on the ground! After a while, it will become easy for you, to do raised back clap push ups and that is your signal to move on, to the real Back Clap Push Up on the ground! First you would want to use a lower platform than you have recently been using. Just keep on doing the Back Clap Push Up on a lower and lower platform, until you are doing them on the ground. When you can do 15 perfect form reps of Back Clap Push Ups on the ground, you can move on to number 6.

6. Double Clap Push Ups! Now try and do a front clap and then a back clap, before landing on the ground. Aim to do at least 10 perfect form reps, before moving on to number 7.

7. THE TRIPLE CLAP PUSH-UP!!! You should now be strong enough to be able to do a real triple clap push up! Make sure your feet are well placed and are firmly planted on the ground, so that you don’t slip and faceplant the ground! If you can do the triple clap push up, just keep on practicing it, to increase the amount of reps you can do.

I really hope you achieve this very awesome exercise! And when you do I would like to hear from you and hear how happy it made you! :) Best of luck and wishes!

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