This is something I failed to touch up on early into things, it's an excellent base exercise that prepares you things like planches and such because it gives you strength and balance which are both necessary means in the feats of strength I talk to you about in this blog.
Handstand:
It's considerably a somewhat difficult move to master, the handstand push up that is. You have to go from handstand push ups with bent hanging legs and more of an arch in your back so your body will spring with the movement, to handstand push ups with just hanging legs, to handstand push ups with straddled legs, all the way to full form handstand push ups. It's about a four to six month journey for the stronger of you. So we shall begin.
So first, master your handstand. Get a good grip of the ground, hold it well. Get to about thirty seconds. Next, do not have a terrible handstand where you can't stop moving or your elbows bend inwards! You will not, I repeat myself, will not! Be able to do handstand push ups with bad form.
Another thing is, learn the tuck planche. Learn the freaking tuck planche, so many people ask why they can't do handstand push ups, so I ask them to do a tuck planche and they fall over. That's the main problem here, is lack in deltoid strength, something not many people have is the stability for such a movement. Tuck planches shouldn't be that hard either if you're training for handstand push ups and such, because that's where you actually start with the handstand push up.
A handstand press up out of the tuck planche prior to handstand push ups is a necessity for handstand push ups because it's not the full motion, but it strengthens you properly, makes everything steadier, and you have the core control.
How you do this, is you start out in a tuck planche and lean forward on your hands until your legs are facing upwards and you push your feet out and up until you are in a full handstand as well as you push straight up with your elbows.
Another thing is, I advise handstand push ups training without the wall because that doesn't teach your body anything other than getting strong because you don't have to counter balance your weight. Sorry, but I'm knocking hard on a lot of these terrible techniques people use to learn solely because they don't progress anywhere nearly as fast as they could if they followed the proper way of doing things which will get you a handstand push up in just a few months compared to a year, year and a half, maybe two. I progressed past all of my friends who were good at handstands the day I started training these the right way.
So next once you get your press out of the tuck planche, you can go from kicking into a handstand and doing handstand push ups. First, go into a handstand, and slowly but surely go downwards until you're on the floor. Practice this a number of times until you get comfortable with it.
After you figure out your handstand drop down and the press out, the upwards part of the handstand push up shouldn't be hard. Mainly because of the press from the tuck planche. So, go into a handstand, and go downwards, once your elbows bend right up to your limit of strength handling, just push up as hard as possible with your deltoids and your triceps.
Tips:
It's also good to learn handstand push ups in the beginning with a somewhat wide handstand stance, not to the point to where you're using your deltoids and your biceps only to hold you up, but about a shoulder widths and a half, at least. Once you get that down, and you're holding handstands in that position decently, well, have fun and keep practicing.
Good Luck!
-The Fitness Cookie
