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
- From standing, with your feet together, fold forward with straight knees to place your hands flat just in front of your toes.
- 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.
- Keep your upper body stacked (shoulders over your wrists) and uncurl one vertebrae at a time.
- As your feet lift higher, pull your hips over your shoulders while maintaining straight knees.
- 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.
- Repeat for reps.
- Exercise: Standing Straddle Press Handstand
- Type of Exercise: Skill
- Muscles: Shoulders, Trapezius, Hips, Abdominals
- Difficulty: Intermediate
- Equipment: Body Only or Parallettes
- Exercise: Standing Parallette Pike Press Handstand to L-Sit
- Type of Exercise: Skill
- Muscles: Shoulders, Trapezius, Middle Back, Abdominals
- Difficulty: Advanced
- Equipment: Parallettes
