Handstand push ups rule. Period.
Broad shoulders help that v-cut appearance, and if your shoulders are weak chances are your upper body is weak.
The handstand push up increases your level of balance and total body control. Due to being upside down, it also helps circulation as well. When you're forced to balance upside down not only do you have to balance and overhead press your whole body weight (which most people can't do on an overhead press), but you also have CONSTANT tension on your deltoids. There is NO rest for the muscle in between reps.
When overhead pressing a straight bar you're forced to press in an unnatural range of motion, which is no bueno for the rotator cuff muscles of the shoulder joint and eventually leads to injury. Handstand pushups however force you to work in a natural range of motion!
Handstand pushups hit EVERY head of the shoulder muscle, anterior, lateral, and posterior, as well as being a killer exercise for the abs, triceps, traps, and back.
Work at em enough and maybe one day you'll end up jacked like you're in cirque de soleil, or maybe even master the ultimate feat of upper body strength, the one handed handstand push up, like this fellow below:
Anyway, for a how to, check out my how to do handstand push ups vid on Youtube! Link is below!
The guy on the last picture's name is Bert Assirati. He was a very strong heavyweight wrestler. He could hold the one arm handstand, but he couldn't do one arm handstand push-ups.
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