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Standing Pike Press Handstand

The Standing Pike Press Handstand is a press handstand through a piked entry. This skill requires strong core compression, as well as shoulders strong enough to hold to offset weight of the legs.

  • Type Of Exercise: Skill
  • Muscles: Shoulders, Trapezius, Middle Back, Abdominals
  • Difficulty: Intermediate
  • Equipment: Body Only

Standing Pike Press Handstand

  1. From standing, with your feet together, fold forward with straight knees to place your hands flat just in front of your toes.
  2. Strongly shrug your shoulders to your ears, lift up to your tip-toes, and continue to press down until your feet come straight up off the floor.
  3. Keep your upper body stacked (shoulders over your wrists) and uncurl one vertebrae at a time.
  4. As your feet lift higher, pull your hips over your shoulders while maintaining straight knees.
  5. Continue to press your straight legs all the way to a free handstand and briefly hold the position before reversing the pike press back to the floor.
  6. Repeat for reps.
  • Exercise: Standing Straddle Press Handstand
  • Type of Exercise: Skill
  • Muscles: Shoulders, Trapezius, Hips, Abdominals
  • Difficulty: Intermediate
  • Equipment: Body Only or Parallettes