Warm Up
Activate Your Press-Up • 15m
This efficient warm up targets your most used areas for your press-up handstands. Hands and wrists, shoulders, core, hips and hamstrings. A little warm up on each area will go a long way in your press-up handstand practice.
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Video 1: Lean & Lift
This video sets the foundation of your press-up. Getting the ability to lean forward and lift your feet is one of the most challenging points of your press up handstand. You’ll start with core stability and shoulder stability work and then work on techniques and drills to find your lift off!
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Video 2: Puppy Press-Up
Many students start off with puppy press because the wide legs and one bent knee make lift off slightly easier. Often students try to hike their knee up in an effort to use the hips to find lift. I’m going to show you how to use your core to find lift off in puppy-press. We’ll start with core wor...
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Video 3: Straddle Press-up
Core work will focus on strengthening the abductors, outer hip muscles in order to straddle press-up.Learn the straddle press-up pattern, how to use props to access lift off, and drills to continue to strengthen you for press-up.
