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Tuck Handstand

The Tuck Handstand is a press handstand progression that strengthens core compression and shoulder stability.

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

Tuck Handstand

  1. From a controlled and properly aligned free handstand, slowly tuck your knees toward your chest until you have a 90-degree bend at your hips.
  2. Keep your feet pulled over your glutes.
  3. Maintain this position and do not allow your back to arch or shoulders to pike; if either occur, you are not elevating and protracting your scapula strongly enough.
  4. Hold for time.
  • Exercise: Handstand Flag
  • Type of Exercise: Skill
  • Muscles: Shoulders, Trapezius, Middle Back, Abdominals
  • Difficulty: Advanced
  • Equipment: Body Only
  • Exercise: Pike Handstand
  • Type of Exercise: Skill
  • Muscles: Shoulders, Trapezius, Middle Back, Abdominals
  • Difficulty: Advanced
  • Equipment: Body Only