Chinese Handstand
The Chinese Handstand is a great handstand drill for working the handstand line, assuring your shoulders are stacked, your scaps are protracted and elevated, and your core is holding your posterior pelvic tilt.
- Type Of Exercise: Skill
- Muscles: Shoulders, Trapezius, Middle Back, Abdominals
- Difficulty: Moderate
- Equipment: Pull-up Bar
Chinese Handstand
![Chinese Handstand 1 Chinese Handstand Beginning](https://www.gymnasticbodies.com//gymfit/wp-content/uploads/2020/08/Chinese-Handstand-1.jpg)
![Chinese Handstand 2 Chinese Handstand End](https://www.gymnasticbodies.com//gymfit/wp-content/uploads/2020/08/Chinese-Handstand-2.jpg)
![Chinese Handstand 3 Chinese Handstand](https://www.gymnasticbodies.com/gymfit/wp-content/uploads/2020/08/Chinese-Handstand.jpg)
- For this handstand variation, use an overhead support that your toes can just barely reach.
- Kick up into a handstand and fully extend through your body: point your toes, straighten your legs, achieve a posterior pelvic tilt (PPT), and open and shrug your shoulders strongly.
- If the overhead support is properly positioned, it should be unreachable without fully lengthening your body.
- Hold this assisted handstand for time.
![Chinese Handstand 4 Forearm Supported Handstand](https://www.gymnasticbodies.com//gymfit/wp-content/uploads/2020/08/HS_PE12_-_3.jpg)
- Exercise: Forearm Supported Handstand
- Type of Exercise: Skill
- Muscles: Shoulders, Trapezius, Middle Back, Abdominals
- Difficulty: Moderate
- Equipment: Other
![Chinese Handstand 5 Forearm Plank Posterior Pelvic Tilt](https://www.gymnasticbodies.com//gymfit/wp-content/uploads/2020/08/HS_SE1_iM_-_1.jpg)
- Exercise: Forearm Plank Posterior Pelvic Tilt
- Type of Exercise: Skill
- Muscles: Abdominals
- Difficulty: Moderate
- Equipment: Body Only