Standing Parallette Pike Press Handstand to L-Sit
The Standing Parallette Pike Press Handstand to L-Sit is a pike press handstand progression that will train the athlete's core compression and shoulder girdle control.
- Type Of Exercise: Skill
- Muscles: Shoulders, Trapezius, Middle Back, Abdominals
- Difficulty: Advanced
- Equipment: Parallettes
Standing Parallette Pike Press Handstand to L-Sit
- Begin standing on the parallettes and begin to press to handstand.
- As soon as your feet lift off the bars, bring them together and perform a pike press.
- Once you are in a stable free handstand, perform a negative pike press all the way to L-sit.
- Pause, lower your legs, and stand up to reset.
- Do not allow your shoulders to planche forward; keep them stacked over your wrists at all times as you press.
- Repeat for reps.
- Exercise: Standing Pike Press Handstand
- Type of Exercise: Skill
- Muscles: Shoulders, Trapezius, Middle Back, Abdominals
- Difficulty: Intermediate
- Equipment: Body Only
- Exercise: Parallette Pike Press Handstand
- Type of Exercise: Skill
- Muscles: Shoulders, Trapezius, Middle Back, Abdominals
- Difficulty: Advanced
- Equipment: Parallettes
