Strength · Vertical press · Bodyweight
Handstand Push-ups
Handstand Push-ups is a strength exercise with your bodyweight that mainly works the front delts, with help from the triceps, side delts and upper back.
In Sets Ahead
Sets Ahead starts you on 3 sets of 5–8 reps with 3:00 rest. When every set reaches 8 reps, add 2.5 kg, or 5 lb if you train in pounds of extra weight, or keep adding reps.
Muscles worked
Mainly
- Front delts
Also
- Triceps
- Side delts
- Upper back
Joints it loads
- Shoulder a lot
- Wrist some
With an injury here, the app warns you before this exercise.
Log it in Sets Ahead
Sets Ahead works out your next set of handstand push-ups, and every other lift, from your own numbers.
Test it before releaseSimilar exercises
The same movement, done another way: what the app suggests when you swap.