Advanced exercise
Pike Press Handstand
Technique
How to perform Pike Press Handstand
- Place your hands shoulder-width apart on the floor with fingers spread and arms locked.
- Lean your shoulders forward over your wrists as you keep your legs straight in a pike position, and hips slightly bent.
- Engage your core and press the floor away, lifting your feet while maintaining the pike and allowing your hips to rise without jumping.
- Straighten your hips as you continue pressing, floating your legs upward until they stack over your shoulders and wrists.
- Exteend tall to achieve a straight handstand, keeping your body tight and shoulders depressed.
- Lower under control or step down after holding for the prescribed time.
Recommended external demonstration
Watch Pike Press Handstand
Programming relevance
Muscles involved
Primary targets: Anterior Deltoid, Medial Deltoid, Tensor Fasciae Latae.
MuscleScoreRole
Calisthenics graph
Progression relationships
These relationships describe graph position, not personal readiness.