Parallette Pike Press Handstand
The Parallette Pike Press Handstand takes the press handstand from the floor to a set of parallettes or parallel bars. This gives the athlete some room for their toes to dangle while dropping from the L-sit and transitioning into that abdominal compression upward.
- Type Of Exercise: Skill
- Muscles: Shoulders, Trapezius, Middle Back, Abdominals
- Difficulty: Advanced
- Equipment: Parallettes
Parallette Pike Press Handstand
- Begin in an L-sit on parallettes and press to handstand.
- Keep your legs together and do not allow your shoulders to planche forward.
- Keep them stacked over your wrists at all times as you press from L-sit, perform a pike press, and achieve a free handstand.
- Reverse the press with control back to L-sit and repeat for reps.
- Exercise: Standing Pike Press Handstand
- Type of Exercise: Skill
- Muscles: Shoulders, Trapezius, Middle Back, Abdominals
- Difficulty: Intermediate
- Equipment: Body Only
- Exercise: Standing Parallette Pike Press Handstand to L-Sit
- Type of Exercise: Skill
- Muscles: Shoulders, Trapezius, Middle Back, Abdominals
- Difficulty: Advanced
- Equipment: Parallettes
