What muscles do handstand pushups work?

[mongerman]

As per title =)

[FrankyB]

Your shoulders mostly, also your tris.

[nutsy54]

^^^ What he said.

It's not a "pushup" at all - it's a military/shoulder press, you're just upside down using bodyweight.

[rockhuddy]

well it is a "pushup" in that you're pushing yourself up, just vertically. Anyway, yes, delts and tris, but abs do more stabilizing work than you'd imagine.

[MattyG]

Lats too probably

[Postman Pat]

Works pretty much your entire upper body imo.

[AnaerobicAndrew]

Lats too probably

eh...how? wrong direction.

[DiamondDelts]

These are by FAR the best shoulder exercise I have ever done. It is just too bad adding weight is damn near impossible with this exercise. I always prefer body moving through space exercises to their freeweight counterparts.

[MattyG]

eh...how? wrong direction.

Lats are stabilizers in any upper body pressing movement

[niceasey]

I love these, especially when you use some of those honadle thingies that increase the ROM.

[mike_d]

dont forget core strength/abdominals

[lionheart21]

I'll probably try these in my shoulder workout on Monday.

[DiamondDelts]

I love these, especially when you use some of those honadle thingies that increase the ROM.

Yeah I always use pushup bars when I do them.

[lionheart21]

Thanks for the advice.

[mick123]

what do you do so to protect from broken neck?

[mike_d]

what do you do so to protect from broken neck?

not fall on your head

[HoosierBoy]

eh...how? wrong direction.

Lats are worked on the negative.

[RichyF84]

anterior delts?

[Postman Pat]

Lats are worked on the negative.

Yup lats are very important for stabilisation during overhead pressing. The handstand push up is the poor mans answer to the military press And to up the intensity what i do is i have a backpack full of sand which i use to add extra weight, the backpack has one of those belts which strap around the waist, this stops the bag from sliding off during the exercise.

[otis691]

we do these A LOT in gymnastics... we have a little mini set of parallel bars that are like a foot high, and we just have a someone hold our legs so we can keep good form..they dont help at all...in fact..if you get really good at these, you can have the other person give a little pressure, so its harder

[failuretogain]

we do these A LOT in gymnastics... we have a little mini set of parallel bars that are like a foot high, and we just have a someone hold our legs so we can keep good form..they dont help at all...in fact..if you get really good at these, you can have the other person give a little pressure, so its harder

your nuts. I wish i could get more reps on these. one of my main goals

[Sounds Good]

Yup lats are very important for stabilisation during overhead pressing. The handstand push up is the poor mans answer to the military press And to up the intensity what i do is i have a backpack full of sand which i use to add extra weight, the backpack has one of those belts which strap around the waist, this stops the bag from sliding off during the exercise.

Would imagine balance would be thrown off

[Jetigen]

I prefer jackknife pushups on a Swiss ball to handstand push-ups. I feel like I can concentrate on my shoulders more this way. It's hard to keep balance too.

Jackknife push-ups' demonstration starts at 9:35 min.

[Kcabo]

IMO, this exercise is for jabronis.

[sonofZyzz1]

even just hand balancing can yield very good mass gains
http://aestheticalpha.com/handstand-for-beginners/

[Skullz83]

I do these and use the wall to help maintain balance < Does wonders on my rounded shoulders I'm trying to fix.

[Beast6mode]

Delts, traps, lats, triceps (somewhat)

At 52 I can pound out 25 in my first set. When I was 30, I could do 72 of these in 3 sets. It takes a different kind of strength to do these.