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Straddle Press Handstand Progressions -

The Straddle Press Handstand involves so much strength, flexibility, and control in many areas everyone’s starting point will be different. Think of this list as exercises that will help you with the Straddle Planche instead of a list of difficulty level because everyone will have a different baseline. -

1. Straight Leg Frogger
2. L-Sit
3. High Frogger slow lower
4. Straddle Sit
5. Straddle Press shoulders against wall
6. Elevated Straight Leg Frogger slow Lower
7. High Frogger to Handstand to Straddle Negative
8. Partial Rep
9. Straddle Press Handstand -

Tips:
1. Spend time building flexibility in the wrists, hamstrings, shoulders, upper back, adductors.
2. Build strength in the shoulders, wrists, core muscles, hip flexors, quads.
3. Work the handstand. Build the control to hold a handstand for a longer period of time.
4. Work on protracting the shoulders and shrugging your shoulders to your ears to engage more shoulder, traps, and abs.
5. A forward lean will help when you’re first starting out. The Straddle Press HS is meant to be done without a forward lean but working on both variations will help you further progress your skills to more advanced moves. A forward lean will help with Planche and no lean will help with Stalder.

Stalder Press 5Ps Session -

The Stalder Press is basically two moves. The Straddle sit and the Straddle Press Handstand. It involves so much strength and flexibility in the wrists, shoulders, hips, hip flexors, hamstrings, and adductors. Basically my nemesis. -

Prep: Dynamic warm up followed by some joint prep. The important part here was to loosen up hips and prepare my shoulders, wrists, and abs to bear weight. -

Practice: Stalder Press Handstand -

Play: Improvising movement that requires mobility for the Stalder Press. -

Push: Using movements that will challenge my end range of motion to improve my Stalder Press. -

Ponder: The most important of the 5Ps today. When it comes to movements that require a good amount of hip or overhead flexibility, I have to be extremely mindful the entire time. I think to myself, “ok lock your knees this time, point your toes, keep your arms straighter”. It’s a lot to think about before, during, and after the session. Lots of improvement to go but I feel good 😊