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Handstand Chest Roll

Once you have a solid handstand and handstand push-up, adding movement will intensify the full body awareness and control needed for the hollow back press range of motion. The Handstand Chest Roll is a hollow back press progression that utilizes some momentum to simulate the pressing strength needed through the HBP.

  • Type Of Exercise: Strength
  • Muscles: Shoulders, Chest, Triceps
  • Difficulty: Advanced
  • Equipment: Body Only

Handstand Chest Roll

  1. Begin in a kneeling plank, with your hands handstand width apart.
  2. Quickly bend your elbows and use the momentum to roll your body forward, along the mat.
  3. Maintain a curve in your back during the entire roll.
  4. Once your feet stack overhead, press your body upward to a handstand, essentially performing a momentum-assisted headstand push-up.
  5. As you press up, straighten your body.
  6. Pause in a stable handstand.
  7. Reverse the headstand push-up and chest roll back to the start position.
  8. Repeat for reps.
  • Exercise: Tuck Planche Push-Up
  • Type of Exercise: Strength
  • Muscles: Chest, Triceps, Shoulders
  • Difficulty: Advanced
  • Equipment: Body Only
  • Exercise: Hollow Back Press
  • Type of Exercise: Strength
  • Muscles: Chest, Triceps, Shoulders
  • Difficulty: Advanced
  • Equipment: Body Only