Exercise library / Shoulders
Handstand push-ups
Shoulders · Bodyweight
Sets, reps and RIR
Sets3 to 5
Reps6 to 15
RIR1 to 2
Load is fixed, so progress by adding reps first, then by slowing the lowering phase, then by adding weight.
RIR means reps in reserve: how many you could still have done when you racked it. RIR 2 is two short of failure.
Muscles worked
Primary: Front delts.
Secondary: Triceps, Side delts, Abs.
What it is called elsewhere
- Norsk Håndstående armhevinger
- Svenska Handstående armhävningar
- Dansk Håndstående armstrækninger
- Deutsch Handstand Liegestütze
- Español Flexiones en pino
- Italiano Piegamenti in verticale
- Português Flexão em parada de mão
- Русский Отжимания в стойке на руках
- Français Pompes en équilibre
Related shoulders exercises
- Overhead press (barbell)
- Seated overhead press (barbell)
- Push press
- Upright row (barbell)
- Landmine shoulder press
- Overhead press (dumbbells)
athlate logs this exercise, keeps the numbers, and tells you what you lifted last time.