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Technique

  1. Place your palms on the ground, at a short distance in front of your feet.
  2. Bend your arms and lean forward to shift your weight towards your hands.
  3. Keep your legs straight and hinge at the hips to lift your legs up while balancing on your hands.
  4. While lifting the legs up, extend your arms and open the shoulders.
  5. Straighten everything into a Handstand position.

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Muscles

Strength

Primary

  • Back
  • Serratus anterior
  • Shoulders
  • Triceps
  • Neck

Secondary

  • Chest
  • Forearms
  • Lower trapezius
  • Serratus anterior
  • Anterior deltoid
  • Middle deltoid
  • Posterior deltoid
  • Triceps brachii (long head)
  • Triceps brachii (medial head)
  • Triceps brachii (lateral head)
  • Upper trapezius
  • Levator scapulae

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Equipment

Ground (hands or body)
Ground (hands or body)
Parallettes
Parallettes

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Appears in

Calisthenics skills
Joint movements
Shoulderflexion upwardflexion backward
Wristflexion
trains stretches

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Regressions

e050

Tripod headstand straight legs lift

Novice
e07r

Pike pushup with legs lift

Intermediate
e07u

Pike bent-arm handstand

Intermediate
e00h

Bent-arm tuck press-to-handstand

Advanced
e04g

90-degree pushup

Herculean
e0ru

Straddle 90-degree pushup

Elite
e0c0

Straight-arm straddle press-to-handstand

Advanced
e00l

Tuck straight-arm press-to-handstand

Advanced
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