How to do a Handstand Push Up(HSPU) to increase your strength and improve your performance in CrossFit WODs.

Set up for a Handstand Push Up(HSPU)

• Hands outside the shoulders and feet against the wall
• Invert with the heels against a wall, arms locked out, body straight and rigid

Points of Performance for a Handstand Push Up(HSPU)

• Descend down to the ground breaking at the elbows and touch the head forward of the hands creating a triangle
• Keep the legs and body rigid maintaining the integrity out the belly
• Extend the arms pressing back up the a full lockout with the arms overhead

Tips and Tricks

• Engage your core to keep your belly and butt tight
• Place your hands a little away from the wall, this will allow you to kick up and into the wall
• Point your thumbs towards the wall
• Keep your elbows close and pointing slightly backward
• Try not to overextend at the top too much