No other exercise will improve your mobility, strength, balance, and agility like this one. You’ll gain a killer body and unreal athletic performance.

This one groundbreaking exercise is... the MIGHTY press handstand! Not only are press handstands an incredible skill to obtain, they are fun to train every step of the way.

By beginning your journey towards a press handstand, you can start developing insanely strong traps, ripped abs, beastly shoulders, incredible range of motion, and improved posture. The athletic qualities that accompany press handstand proficiency are nothing short of astounding! You’ll also become more agile, coordinated, and balanced in the process.

Now before you jump right into specific press handstand training, let’s take a look at the roadmap that will take you there. It’s one heck of a journey but will result in ridiculous levels of strength throughout your entire body! Let’s get started:

Stack the Odds in Your Favor By Perfecting Your Handstand

A nicely stacked freestanding handstand is your golden ticket to remarkable gymnastics strength of a press handstand. This means that your wrists and shoulders need to become strong, resilient, and mobile. This is exactly why joint health, preparation, and mobility are always emphasized first in GST and Handstand One is no exception.

The initial phase of our Handstand One Course will gently introduce you to being inverted (actual handstands come much later). At the same time, your shoulders and wrists will steadily become more mobile and stronger than you ever imagined! Using these proper progressions, you will be sticking your handstand every time and be well on your way to reaping the benefits of a press handstand!

Press handstand training will completely enhance the way you look and feel! Start now with our Handstand Series. 

Lay Your Foundation For Success

Without your basic core compression and straight arm strength development from Foundations, the road to a press handstand is going to be a difficult one. The organized progressions from Foundation One, will open your shoulders, rewire your hips, and rebuild your core. Those range of motion and strength gains combined with steadily more challenging exercise will prepare your nervous system to handle the complexity of press handstands. Your basic gymnastic strength is essential for crushing your press handstands later into your training!

The GymnasticBodies Curriculum is an integrated system of carefully planned progressions. Coach Christopher Sommer, the mastermind behind the GB system of training, often reminds his students that their physical preparation must be addressed from all angles.

Maximize Your Mobility

Since press handstand exercises like the wide grip stalder press (Above) require a completely balanced body, flexibility and active mobility are going to be your best friend. Active mobility (think weighted) is thoroughly covered in the Foundation Series, but to help speed things along, you’re going to want to be doing some deep stretching as well.

The GB Stretch Series will rapidly accelerate your hip, hamstring, back, and shoulder mobility, getting you to that goal of a press handstand much faster. It’s well worth your time to make stretching a consistent part of your week.

Prepare and Practice!

One of the best parts about the GB Courses is the preparatory strength and mobility components. It simply isn’t safe to jump right into specifically training the advanced skills like press handstands, nor is it productive. This is why Coach Sommer includes a preparatory stage in each course. This means that, regardless of your current abilities, you’re able to immediately begin training the press handstand preparatory elements.

This same structure is the reason why your freestanding handstand training can also begin right away. The preparatory elements are going to set you up for greater success down the line as they will target skill-specific mobility and bring your basic strength up to the gold standard… MASTERY. A strong emphasis on your basics will grant you amazing gymnastic abilities later on. So stick with it!

It might seem overwhelming at first, but rest assured that GB has coordinated all of these press handstand components into one, simple, weekly schedule. Your courses will automatically integrate into your weekly workouts and adapt specifically to your abilities as you go along.

We have the strength training curriculum you need to succeed at perfecting your GymnasticBodies press handstand and attaining ridiculous levels of flawless athleticism!