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Want to handstand but don’t know where to start?

Struggling with getting off the wall?

The Push program has you covered with it’s step-by-step programming to achieve your first handstand. It’s a comprehensive, entry-level course with everything you need to build the strength, flexibility, coordination, and confidence to kick-up to a straight, freestanding handstand.

With a multitude of training templates, we’ll get you balancing whether you’re strong but stiff, flexible but unstable, or an absolute beginner.
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Does it take you 3, 5, 10 kick-ups to get into a handstand?

Want to enter your handstand with control, every time?

Kick-Up is is designed specifically to help you catch your balance consistently when kicking up into a handstand. It breaks the motion down into component parts where you’ll build strength and coordination.  Then you’ll recombine them with newfound control into a perfect kick-up.

Master your kick-up to get much more out of your handstand training by avoiding fatigue from ‘false-starts’ and instead devote energy to longer handstand holds.
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Safely learning handstands should be easier.

That’s why we created the Low Balance, where you learn moves safe enough for a beginner and build on them through progressive programming.

Follow an accessible pathway into the world of handbalancing with the crow, crane, crocodile, side crocodile and headstand – developing strength along with the understanding of balance and inversion that carries over to handstands.
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Chasing longer handstands?

Need better balance and endurance to learn more handstand skills?

The Hold program is designed to build up your straight handstand hold to the coveted 60 second handstand.

In it we focus on the strength and endurance specific to the straight handstand while simultaneously introducing a variety of rebalancing strategies that keep you on your hands for longer. Doing so builds up your work capacity, body awareness and your save options.
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Have a good handstand and wonder what’s next?

Want to start building the foundations for the press?

Have ambitions to incorporate handstands into performances?

Keep Pushing brings you beyond beginner handbalancing with new entries, leg shapes, and sequences.

Evolve your straight two-arm handstand into the tuck, straddle and pike handstands while building endurance and aesthetic transitions.
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Have you trained strength and flexibility but still struggle to press to handstand?

You’re not alone! The press is one of the most elusive handbalancing movements.

The Handstand Factory Press program covers what matters and what does not for this misunderstood skill. In it you’ll gain the specific strength, relevant flexibility, and coordination to lean onto your hands and articulate your spine upwards into a perfect press.

And once you master the standing straddle press, this program takes you further into advanced variations like the pike and Stalder presses.
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Bored with the handstand grind?

Interested in apparatus training but don’t know where to start?

Add variety and challenge to your training with Expand!

In this program you’ll learn handstand walking, blocks and canes training, and head movements while inverted.

It will also lay the foundation to pursue advanced handbalancing like the one-arm or for performing.  The Expand program is easily trained alongside our other programs, and doing so will fast-track your progress through improving the breadth of your skills and creativity.
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Want to arch into the hollowback handstand?

Starting down the path to contortion handstands?

Bend teaches the Mexican Handstand, also known as the hollowback handstand, and its variations. This program covers how to develop the strength and flexibility in your backbend and then teach your body to access it while handbalancing to accomplish this challenging but rewarding skill.
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Learn to handstand the AMERICAN WAY!

Discover the classic handstand shape favored by historic handbalancers such as the great Paulinetti, bent in the back as much as possible! Here, no line is curved enough and the arch of the back is celebrated in all of its glory.
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Want boulder shoulders while further improving your balance?

Interested in taking your handbalancing into the world of calisthenics?

Or want to get your CrossFit handstand push-up off the wall?

The HSPU program is designed to teach you the full range, freestanding handstand push-up. It covers two major achievements; the first being the freestanding handstand push up on the floor, and the second the full range of motion HSPU.
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Seeking the one-arm handstand?

The Push Harder program provides an efficient and elegant structure to unlocking the straddle one-arm handstand in a way that develops towards even higher level skills such as one-arm shapes and Figas.

In it you will gain a technical understanding of the mechanics of the straddle one-arm handstand and improve your side split. And at this level of handbalancing, we give you the tools to program your own training and build an independent, individual handbalancing practice.
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You’ve got a one-arm handstand, now what?

The One-Arm Shapes program provides a guide to evolving your straddle one-arm handstand into a variety of classic shapes including: the diamond, half straddle, legs together, one leg bent, tuck and twisting one-arm handstands.

Dive deep into advanced handbalancing with our exposition on technique and training methodology in this online program.
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