Knuckle pushups?

[Tony104104]

Is there any benefit in doing these, when it comes to martial arts?

 

[digger]

Oh, merciful amnesia! Been a LONG time since I did those....

Yeah, some value; less for the knuckle-toughening, but more to focus on the big knuckles so it becomes second nature to strike with them. Ask any cop, he'll tell you how to find someone who was in a stupid fist fight. "Look for the guy with the busted hand" from punching with the weaker knuckles.

My hands are too valuable to me to go whole-hog on breaking techniques, but a little toughening up of the big knuckles is reasonable.

 

[wtlftr]

I punch a sand bag to help develop my knuckles.

 

[shane73]

Doing push-ups on the knuckles also strengthens the wrists which is a benefit...

 

[Babyfaced Assassin]

Yes there are
they are harder and condition ur wrists and forearms more than normal pushups u also condition ur two big knuckles which should be the two knuckles u strike with when u punch

 

[Tony104104]

Thanks for the responses....How would a beginner go about doing these?Sets?Reps?And how many times a week?

 

[wtlftr]

make a fist, place it perpindicular to the ground and assume a pushup position. Do enough sets to fatigue the muscle first thing in the morning. EOD

 

[KOArtist]

finger pushups are good for strengthening the fist/wrist too

 

[Tom Treutlein]

Don't you mean parallel to the ground?

 

[PoonRaider]

So when you're doing knuckle pushups, do you do them with your fists horizontal in relation to your elbow, or vertical?