Eccentric Half Press Handstand to L-Sit
The Eccentric Half Press Handstand to L-Sit is a handstand press drill with a lot of things going on at once. The athlete is working on a smooth transition from the pike press handstand to an L-sit, which requires a great deal of control and strength through the shoulder girdle, core, hip-flexors, and forearms.
- Type Of Exercise: Skill
- Muscles: Shoulders, Trapezius, Middle Back, Abdominals
- Difficulty: Intermediate
- Equipment: Parallettes
Eccentric Half Press Handstand to L-Sit
- Stand on parallettes, fold forward, and grab ahold of them just in front of your feet.
- Strongly shrug your shoulders to your ears, step up to your tiptoes, and continue to press down until your feet lift straight up off of the parallettes.
- Keep your shoulders open and avoid leaning forward to lift up.
- Continue pressing until your hips stack over your shoulders.
- Once your hips are stacked, pause momentarily.
- To end the rep, bring your feet together and lower down to an L-sit.
- Your legs must remain locked and your legs must remain parallel to the floor in the L-sit.
- Hold the L-sit for a moment, reset back to standing, and repeat for reps.
- Move steadily and never allow yourself to planche forward during this exercise.
- Exercise: Press Walk
- Type of Exercise: Strength
- Muscles: Shoulders, Trapezius, Middle Back, Abdominals
- Difficulty: Moderate
- Equipment: Body Only
- Exercise: Eccentric Half Press Handstand to Straddle L
- Type of Exercise: Skill
- Muscles: Shoulders, Trapezius, Hips, Abdominals
- Difficulty: Intermediate
- Equipment: Parallettes
