I’m happy to share that I’ve achieved a long-term goal of a freestanding full range handstand pushup. Next step is to clean it up and add reps. How did I get here? First I had a good base in being able to do a freestanding handstand. (I see too many …
Full Range Handstand Pushup Progressions
Small changes in body position can make huge differences in doing handstand pushups. The following tip changes the difficulty by about 20%! That makes a difference of doing it and not doing it for many people, or a good number of reps for others. The idea is that by bending …
Full Range Handstand Pushups with Straight Legs
Most of the handstand pushups at full range I’ve done have involved bent legs. This use to be because of height limitations. Now I have the overhead space needed for this tougher version. And that’s just it. This is a tougher version than the same exercise done with bent legs. …
Hand Position in Handstand Pushups
Your hand position in handstand pushups is not often addressed, even by those that teach the benefits of this exercise. Yet this small piece of positioning makes a BIG impact. In short, by having your hands out a bit wider, it changes the length of the range of motion, thus …
Handstand Pushup Progressions
Handstands are a huge part of my training right now. And in this article I want to share with you some of my most current PR’s as well as give you some ideas on handstand pushup progressions. Let’s start with the videos. Here you have 8 full range handstand pushups …