How To Learn The Handstand Pushup For Beginners

hey guys michael here from calisthenics family, do you want the handstand push-up?

do you want to be able to train with your own body weight?

then this is the perfect video for you to watch, in this video we show 5 different exercises

who have helped us tremendously with handstand push-ups

these are a number of exercises that you have probably never seen on youtube before

so keep watching and especially

enjoy the video

as with any exercise, we must of course start with the basis

and the basis of handstand push-ups are the pike push ups

With this exercise you have to push your head forward and keep your arm in a 90 degree angle at the bottom

try to do about 15 reps of this in total

if this is successful, you can proceed to the next progression

where you put your legs on an elevation this is the elevated pike pushup

you want to try about 10 repetitions

Now you make it a bit more difficult for yourself because you are already putting the weight a little higher

and more towards the handstand pushup

the next exercise is the pushup with the belly against a wall

this exercise is already a lot heavier since you now have legs straight up

just like in the handstand position.

This exercise requires a lot of power from the front of your shoulders

and that is exactly the muscle group you want to trigger for the handstand pushup

the next exercise is an exercise that you have probably not seen before

that is the head-stand pushup and this exercise requires a lot of coordination and balance

what you are going to do, you put your head on an elevation, I use weights.

you try to push up explosively from a stationary position

this way you train the handstand pushup slightly differently

because you now start all the way from the end position

you also try to remove the legs from the wall and push up from there

and just keep the balance and then make the push-up again

now the advanced variant

that is of course the same exercise but without a wall

Of course you should be comfortable with your handstand here,

With this exercise you really work at the handstand pushup. So you do exactly the same.

you put your head on an elevation and try to push up

especially the part downwards requires a lot of strength and coordination in your shoulders

so you train both concentrically and eccentric in this exercise

try to make about 3 to 5 repetitions

and then you can remove a weight

which will make you do an even deeper handstand push-up

making you work more towards the full handstand pushup

the next exercise are negative handstand pushups

you start in a handstand position and you let yourself lower slowly

and you try to stop yourself in a 90 degree angle

we call this also isometric training and is very good to increase the muscle load

and that's exactly what we need with the handstand pushup

since it is often difficult

to make the handstand pushup in that 90 degree angle

if this is successful for 15 seconds you can also try without a wall

where you try to hold at least five seconds

and try to count it for yourself -1, 2, 3, 4, 5

so slowly lower. This was an eccentric movement

and then we arrive at the last exercise. this is really the best exercise that has helped us

to learn the full handstand pushup

Namely the handstand pushup pulses. these are small movements that you make

so that your body can get used to the position in the final exercise

if you can make about five repetitions try to go a bit deeper

until you finally work towards the full handstand pushup

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and I wonder how much handstand push-ups you can against the wall or without the wall

and which variant you think is easier, on the ground or on the parallettes

I personally find the parallettes a lot easier as you see here

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