So this is for those of you who hand balance and are looking into it. Pike walks are challenging to get right, core intensive, and they help out with flexibility if you're having trouble with that for your hand balance variations requiring hip mobility and upper body flexibility in certain such as I do. It's excellent and helps a lot, and I've found it induces progression quite well into many other exercises.
Regardless the picture of the pike stall, I do not require you to hold that position. But! You will be going into it for a short lived amount of time. Performing this properly isn't difficult, just hard to keep going.
So the pike walk is easy to explain. I made it up myself, I'm not quite sure if other people use it, but it helps. So you lean to one side, and put your hand on the ground. Only one, lift your hips up, and move your feet forward.
Once your feet come forward, they must come onto the ground, once they touch the ground, you lift you hand and put it out again and lift your feet and move them once again. For results, repeat the process about ten times on each side for every set. Enjoy!
-The Fitness Cookie
