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Parallette Pike Press Handstand

The Parallette Pike Press Handstand takes the press handstand from the floor to a set of parallettes or parallel bars. This gives the athlete some room for their toes to dangle while dropping from the L-sit and transitioning into that abdominal compression upward.

  • Type Of Exercise: Skill
  • Muscles: Shoulders, Trapezius, Middle Back, Abdominals
  • Difficulty: Advanced
  • Equipment: Parallettes

Parallette Pike Press Handstand

  1. Begin in an L-sit on parallettes and press to handstand.
  2. Keep your legs together and do not allow your shoulders to planche forward.
  3. Keep them stacked over your wrists at all times as you press from L-sit, perform a pike press, and achieve a free handstand.
  4. Reverse the press with control back to L-sit and repeat for reps.
  • Exercise: Standing Pike Press Handstand
  • Type of Exercise: Skill
  • Muscles: Shoulders, Trapezius, Middle Back, Abdominals
  • Difficulty: Intermediate
  • Equipment: Body Only