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[Music] push-ups are a strength skill that everyone has on their pocket listed it looks
cool and develops a brute strength in your upper body but it seems impossible how should we go
about this journey and progressing towards the freestanding handstand push-up you definitely have
to stay on the wall for quite a while like way more than you think I used to make mistakes that
when I when I was able to do one or two handstand put freestand enhancement push-ups I'll just do
bunch of sets uh without the wall you might have the same thing you might have felt the same exact
same just want to just do freestanding all day yeah just one fail cry again maybe the next one
you success I was failing because I was failing at the balance you're just not going to say a ton
of handstand push-ups with the wall because it's it's boring it doesn't it doesn't look it doesn't
look cool so but the reality is in practice these teachers coaches the people that you admire doing
these handstand push-ups have probably spent time doing wall handstand push-ups just to
build a surplus of strength I didn't realize that until like much later in my journey but yeah I
used to think all the time oh like my answer is really good like why am I failing should people
use back to wall or chest wall I'll prefer back to wall nowadays because chest wall weighs a lot of
strength of going up and going down but with the back to wall you already have set the hands where
you want to be even if you crash or if you fail at your last rep it's much easier to calm down if
your back's facing the wall versus your chest is facing the wall but I agree Dad I think that the
back to wall used to be demonized because you turn into a banana banana back back to wall handstand
push-up and we just kept going with that as a calisthenics Community because that's what someone
said then we just kept repaying that over time you can easily modify your Technique to make it strict
so by having a single leg bounce against the wall it fixes your pelvis into posterior pelvic
tilt you'll keep your ribs down and you actually won't arch your back and you can make it really
demanding on the anterior adults without any compromise so it's a great General Mouse builder
for the PEX stealths triceps which are heavily involved in Hazard push-ups yeah so only thing
you could watch for when you're doing the back to wall is that don't get your torso to be vertical
on the way down but if you're trying to build a freestanding hands and push-ups make sure your
body is in an angle so you're not trying to get into a headstand but you your your forehead has
to be down and then your body has to be in a little bit of angle an easy way to take care
of your Technique with back to wool handstand push-ups go a distance from the wall that allows
you to lean forward and get your head between your hands in a tripod shape so the head is slightly
in front and what helps with doing this is to also accommodate the hand width so if you go super wide
with the hands you can just flare your elbows and go straight up and down which there's some
limitation with that with carry over to the actual handstand push-up can be debated that's a bit more
dangerous on the shoulder joints so put simply back to all hairstamp push-up go shoulder width or
slightly wider it allows you to tuck your elbows in more of the scapular plane and you'll end up
as a result leaning forward and doing the back to wall hairstyle push-up as you should don't just
do the strength part but make sure to practice the balance part as well I haven't touched the
freestanding handstand push-up in some time and it really highlighted how there's the component
of skill that needs to be built in again I can do a handstand I've got enough strength to do
handstand push-ups but combine the two makes your body freak out if you haven't been accustomed to
it it was funny Dan goes to me hey can we just do some parallel handstand push-ups and I was
a little bit hesitant to do that because I hadn't practiced that in a while I'd spent more time on
the floor than I did with parallettes and we can really see in the Reps that we're doing myself in
particular a little bit more shaky the body's not as comfortable with that strength balance
in in that so strength is specific you need to build up to that but you also have to have
the components before you immerse yourself in the difficult weights have become a lot more popular
for getting stronger for handstand push-ups why is this the case adding I like having calisthenics
is my main workout and then add dumbbell work as accessory the biggest reason why I'm using weights
is to make each of my arm independent so that I can work on each of the stabilizer without
leaning to one side one or my stronger side if I were to do like a standing dumbbell press I'm also
utilizing my core my entire body to press up so I need to figure out some kind of way to isolate my
shoulders and the easiest way is to just lean on the bench making sure your back's nice and
flat and then do a press to imitate the hands and push-ups using whites as a supplement for symmetry
side to side also working on the stabilizers which don't get targeted as specifically with
handstand push-ups and then using weights as a secondary exercise to feed into the main
goal being hairstyle push-up enjoy the journey Legends and I'll see you next Fitness faq's video