Free Handstand Single Leg Tuck
The Free Handstand Single Leg Tuck is a complex engagement drill that challenges the strength of your handstand control. While you maintain a solid handstand, keeping shoulders stacked over the palms of your hands, you will engage your transverse abdominis, pulling one knee down to your chest before extending it up again. When you master this, advance to the double leg tuck.
- Type Of Exercise: Skill
- Muscles: Shoulders, Trapezius, Middle Back, Abdominals
- Difficulty: Intermediate
- Equipment: Body Only
Free Handstand Single Leg Tuck
- Begin in a free handstand with proper body alignment.
- Tuck one knee toward your chest until you have a 90-degree hip angle.
- Pause, extend the leg back up, and switch sides.
- Ensure your moving foot remains close to your straight leg and stacked over your glutes as your knee bends and straightens.
- Feel the traps working hard to maintain shoulder flexion.
- Repeat for reps.
- Exercise: Free Handstand Shrug
- Type of Exercise: Skill
- Muscles: Shoulders, Trapezius, Middle Back, Abdominals
- Difficulty: Moderate
- Equipment: Body Only
- Exercise: Long Hollow
- Type of Exercise: Strength
- Muscles: Shoulders, Trapezius, Middle Back, Abdominals
- Difficulty: Moderate
- Equipment: Body Only
