Name: Playbook - Pierre Dalati - Level 2
Uploaded: 2023-02-23T03:33:39.696Z
Duration: 40 min
Description: Level 2

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Beginner/Intermediate exercises that will increase your shoulder strength and imitate a handstand

Focus: imitates the use of your fingertips when you’re in a handstand

- Start with your feet on an elevated surface and your back at 90 degrees
- Extend your arms and keep your core engaged
- Lean forward and then shift your weight onto your fingertips to come back to the starting position

Elevated pike hold

Focus: strengthening the shoulders and imitating the pressing movement in a handstand￼￼

- Start in pike position 
- Raise your hips as much as you can keeping your legs extended
- Lower your head towards the ground 
- Press yourself back up to the starting position

Pike push up

Focus: improve balance and shoulder strength 

- Start in a exacted pike position
- Take one hand off the floor and touch the opposite shoulder 
- Repeating on the opposite side

Shoulder taps

Focus: strengthen the shoulder and increase mobility

- Place your back against the wall (make sure your heels, butt, lower back and upper back are touching the wall at all times) 
- Raise the dumbbells (forward)￼ over your head
- Do a shoulder press and then bring the dumbbells back down to the starting position

Front Raise to Shoulder Press (On Wall)

Focus: imitating the handstand pressing movement & increasing shoulder strength 

- Place your back against the wall (same way as the last exercise) 
- Hold the dumbbells over your head and bring them down until your arms are at a 90° angle
- Press the dumbbells back up

Level 2

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