This month we will focus on the Handstand Push-up. A free-standing handstand push-up is unrivaled for it’s development of core strength, upper body pressing strength, balance, proprioception and it is one of the coolest party tricks around. However, it can take years of practice to develop a free-standing handstand push-up and we want you to be strong now, so we are going to look at a lot of ways that you can start developing handstand push-ups and using them in your workouts.
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Here’s what you could have been doing had you started at the age of 2:
Here are a variety of scaling options:
Here are some great progressions that we will be working on:
I’ll whoop his ass (assuming he’s still 4).