Pike Press Handstand

1. Your hands should be flat on the floor in front of you with your fingers spread out. Compress your pike as deep as you can to stack your hips on top of your shoulders as much as you can. Lean forwards over your hands and as your shoulders tilt forward, transfer your weight from your lower body to your hands. 2. Use your stomach muscles to pull your legs off the ground, while you are leaning your shoulders over and past your hands. All of your weight should be on your arms as your core muscles lift your legs. 3. Slowly raise your legs up until they are straight over your shoulders in a handstand. As your legs rise, your shoulders will move to straight over your hands. 4. Once your legs are straight over your head you will be in a handstand. To hold this with control you need to make sure your legs and shoulders are stacked over your hands so that you form a straight-body position. From the handstand position you can reverse these steps to lower yourself back to the floor.