// 15 Min MOBILITY ROUTINE FOR THE PRESS TO HANDSTAND // Follow Along
In today's workout, we’ll be improving our flexibility and mobility for a press to handstand. The handstand press requires a lot of strength, flexibility, and balance. Today we’ll focus on the mobility of our shoulders and hips and the active and passive flexibility of our hamstrings.
The workout consists of 7 different exercises, each will be repeated twice. The timer is set to 40s of work and 20s of rest and at the end, we have a 1-min pancake hold for a bit of endurance.
In exercises like the horse stance, hamstring stretch, and pancake compression, where we’ll be working on our shoulder mobility as well, it’s important to open the shoulders as much as you can without arching the lower back and really think of keeping the pelvis tucked. I would prefer to see a tucked pelvis with less open shoulders, than the other way around. In handstand drills, it's really essential to work on your overhead shoulder mobility with a tucked pelvis, as this will help you progress faster and better in your handstand practice.
Keep in mind, that a press to handstand is a hard skill to master and requires a lot of practice and patience to achieve, so take it slow and focus on good posture.
For a full body press conditioning, check out our 15-min Conditioning for the Press Handstand workout:
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