Handstand push-ups

Sets, reps and RIR

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

• Norwegian Håndstående armhevinger
• Swedish Handstående armhävningar
• Danish Håndstående armstrækninger
• German Handstand Liegestütze
• Spanish Flexiones en pino
• Italian Piegamenti in verticale
• Portuguese Flexão em parada de mão
• Russian Отжимания в стойке на руках
• French 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.