Best Exercise To Build A Press To Handstand!

Don't get me wrong, the press is a complex movement but strength makes everything simpler! Check the desciption for links to more useful resources to develop your press :)

Thank you so much, Tom. You were both an inspiration and of great assistance for years for me now. This is a great one, as expected! ❤

Love this drill I'm going to try that for sure! But your dog is so cute and why i subbed 😅

An important question: is is possible to do the facing the wall press to handstand without a dog? Cause the best I can do is a cat...

never used the wall to learn this myself. for me i learnt it similer to this method but without the wall.. first getting good and lowering down to the ground. (which you show iwth the wall) then when i got good at that i would try to lower a little bit from handstand folding from the hip and try to fold back up to handstand. and everytime trying to go a bit lower but being able to press back up to hadnstand and eventulally i could just do it. few extra things you dont seem to point out is the stretch of your hands and pushing into the floor and gripping with your fingers this to me is very important because it grounds yourself. the other thing is elevating the shoulders so your are pushing up.

Tom,
Your this clip really helped me to escalate my level of handstand.
Cheers warrior

Thanks for the Drill! I've been building my handstand for over five years now and I have just begun to get hang time. I'm going to find a wall where i can get this full range of movement and let my addiction kick in 🙃

This may well be the missing link in my progression, I was always unconvinced by the back to wall version because it won't help to transition to free hand stand. Thanks for it. Now I just need to find large enough wall space to do the straddle on!

The reason you move further away from the wall is to compensate for a lack of mobility in the legs

Loved this video!! Thanks for sharing.. and then the cute dog <3

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What is your puppy 🐶 name? ❤️

The dogs 🥹

Okay what's the dogs name?

After watching your vedio I improve alot🎉🎉🎉👍🙏🙏🙏

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This exercise does not build strength in the triceps, which is needed to press the body up into a handstand.

Most people say that flexibility is the only factor, but im really flexible and cant do it. This video helped!

I’m just so scared of falling backwards

Totally awesome video!! That sweet dog....❤

The dog gets it

amazing tutorial!

Hey Tom, what headset microphone are you using ? 😊

Love your dog Tom! What breed is it?

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Thanks!

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Hi Tom,
been following your videos for quite a while and I have to say, once again, I love them! Your editing has been getting better and better and your content has always been very informative to me as opposed to some YT videos that just aim to gather views without actual content.

I do have a question in regards to working towards HSPU/Press to HS: My freestanding HS is 20s at best, wall-assisted approximately 80s all-time best. Been practicing for about 1.5 years now while still focusing on mastering the basics (Push Ups, Dips, Rows, Pull/Chin Ups). If you had to choose, would you start to work towards HSPUs ( -> incorporating Pike PUs) or would you incorporate drills that work towards Press first? I aim to achieve both at some point, but I am struggling on deciding where to start first. Working on both at the same time will likely be too much for me to handle.

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Your good form Thomas.

Awesome. Excellent channel. Brilliant content.

I’d like to like it more. 👍🏻👍🏻👍🏻👍🏻

Long back when I saw your hipflexor compression video with only two attempts I got the press to handstand.

You are my favourite when it comes to flexibility training

If I could hit that like button twice I would! Amazing video!!!!

Hi Tom, my name is Alex. I'm from Adelaide Australia. I'm 56 years old and I've been doing your cycling stretching workout the past year three times a week, cause I do weight training and cycling six, seven days a week, having issues with my whole body aching. And this has helped me 100%. And I want to say a big thank you. 👍

Could you make video on the following topics?

How long should one hold a stretch for flexibility? Like is there any benefit of going to 60 seconds. (Kinda like a parallel for effective rep ranges in lifting).

How many times should you hold it? So if it's a total of 4 holds for 30 seconds, that's full 2 mins in the position. (Kinda like sets for lifting)

How often should you practice a given stretch routine (frequency)? Like if I want to learn the split, do I have to split daily, or can I do it twice a week and have maintenance sessions between to maintain the adaptations.

How many skill do you recommend someone learn concurrently? Specifically positions that may not necessarily help each other. Like I can imagine learning the pancake and middle split concurrently helping each other, but what about the pike and middle split?

How intense should a split be? Should it be just uncomfortable or maybe a little painful? (I kinda see this as a parallel of intensity for weight training).

How long to rest between splits?

Lastly, exercise selection for stretching. How do you go about picking the right stretches for a certain position?

Flexible isn’t the issue for me is the strength part me I tried this strength exercise for the first time I really had to push from my shoulders I felt the load on my shoulders this exercise is no joke no more back to wall for the handstand press it’s belly to wall from here out 👍 video

Lovely video Tom. Thank you. Can I please ask what mic you are using. The sound is wonderful. Love the channel

i like the part where there are 2 toms :) i want to see them fight

To understand the strength required to press to handstand or Planche.

Could you perform a test.?

Laying down on the floor in front of a cable machine with your feet facing the machine and a straight bar connected at or slightly above feet level.

How much weight are you able to lift with straight arms to a 90 degree angle 📐

Or doing the same with a barbell in each hand.

Also what is your body weight and height for reference?

The gym you are using looks pretty nice, where is it located?

I've seen super ini mini tiny little girls with no discernable muscle mass who could do a press to handstand, but they could not do a pull up. It's just hard to believe that they would have incredible pushing strength... But boy they were flexible!

This is exactly the sort of clear and simple instructions I keep coming back to this channel for. The app has been an absolute gem too. Thanks mate ! Hot off the press....coming soon !

Been watching this man for a while now, first found him by looking up reviews on "body by rings". @Tom you've come a long way buddy! This was well shot and very informative - while I've progressed in strength over the years, you've moved far along with balance and hand work. That's my next goal 💪🏽 keep it up brotha.

Puppy in videos equal best videos! Great info. Thanks.

The puppy at the end makes the whole video. Very cute.