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Technique

  1. Start in a Crow pose position.
  2. Lift your hips up, so that your knees come off your arms.
  3. Keep lifting up, extend your legs and extend your arms at the same time.
  4. End up in a Handstand position.
  5. Reverse the motion back to the starting position with control.

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Muscles

Strength

Primary

  • Back
  • Serratus anterior
  • Shoulders
  • Triceps
  • Neck

Secondary

  • Chest
  • Forearms
  • Lower trapezius
  • Serratus anterior
  • Anterior deltoid
  • Middle 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
Elbowextension
Shoulderelevationflexion upward
trains stretches

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Progressions

e04y

Headstand pushup

Advanced
e00h

Bent-arm tuck press-to-handstand

Advanced
e07r

Pike pushup with legs lift

Intermediate
e07q

Pike pushup

Novice
e028

Bent-arm pike press-to-handstand

Advanced
e036

Dive-bomber pushup

Novice
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