Building up to Handstand Pushups

Hand stand push ups are one of the greatest exercises for building superb strength with nothing besides your body weight. There are just a few other exercises in this category, such as hanging leg raises, pistols and chinnups. There are some things that these all have in common. Unfortunately , few people can do any if each one of them.

So in this post let’s discuss about the best way to build up to having the ability to do a handstand pushup. The 1st step is regular, typical pushups that everyone should be acquainted with. Just set your hands on the floor shoulder width apart, keep the back tight without sagging or raising the hips. Dip between your arms, keeping the elbows in touching to the sides and then push back up. The pushup makes stronger triceps, shoulders and pecs.

A good start is to be well placed to handle 3 sets of 25 pushups. Next we make them harder.

The way to try this is to raise the feet up on some variety of box or platform. Ensure its stable enough to hold your weight. Nevertheless it can be anything like a bed or couch if you would like. By raising your feet you’ll increase the amount of weight you’ve got to handle in the pushup. The higher you go the tougher it gets. And you can see that eventually you raise your body enough to do a handstand pushup. In this you’re handling 100% of your weight while the standard pushup is only about half.

Go up in height a step at a time. (And yes you can use the steps of a staircase too.) This way you keep it gradual. At every level you can work on the three sets of 25 reps we discussed earlier. After you hit that level of progression you’ll increase the intensity to the next level.

My recommendation is that once you get to the point where you are angled at 45 degrees then you’re probably ready for hand stand pushups.

There are tons of things that go into doing this move correctly. When you kick up against the wall commence with just lowering down in control. This is referred to as a negative. Make sure you adhere to the ‘control ‘ idea or you might end up injuring yourself. If you need someone to help you for assistance when you try it the first time do it.

From the negative after you touch the crown of your head to the floor you may push back up. If you have done enough work in preparing up to this step and building your strength you’ll be able to complete your first handstand pushup.

Todd Ludgren is a writer for Lost Art of Hand Balancing where you can learn all sorts of handstands and acrobatic training. Here is an article with much more on how to do a back flip for even more advanced bodyweight training.