Arc - Press To Handstand

NEXT 12 WEEK COACHING GROUP
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STARTS Monday JANUARY 9th 2023


who is this coaching group for?

Arc - Press to Handstand is a coaching programme designed for Athletes who are looking to be coached on the development of each of the unique components of the Press to Handstand, and progressively piece together the full skill.

This programme ideally begins after the 6 week Handstand Intensive, OR
if you can already balance a Handstand for longer than 5 seconds.


Why you are currently stuck with this skill:

There's 3 main reasons why people struggle to make progress towards the Press.

1 - Too much experimenting.

Lots of athletes get caught up with too many hours "experimenting" with all the fancy drills they've seen on social media.

"Maybe this one will make it click"

While this can be fun in the short term, in the long term, you're not being consistent with the developing the progression lines that actually matter.


2 - Understanding the whole picture.

Often times, athletes get overly caught up with one particular component of the skill, for example, Hip flexibility.

They overly fixate on Hip Flexibility, and either knowingly, or unknowingly, they leave the other components completely under developed.

It never matters how strong you are with one component, you need ALL components firing and working together.

You can only do this if you understand the whole picture.


3 - Correct tension cues.

Even if we assume an athlete is progressing the right exercises in an order that makes sense, we still have the issue of co-ordinating the proper tension cues.

Without this, mistakes can go on and on and on for months, even years without being addressed.

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Getting started:

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Training for the Press comes down to isolating these components:

• Active Shoulder + Hip Flexibility
• Shoulder Strength (Planche)
• Upper, Middle and Lower Trapezius Strength
  
  These elements are trained simultaneously through
  
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If one of these is not in place, you will find it hard, or impossible to co-ordinate specific skill progressions.


On this programme you will:

• Progressively strengthen each component of the Press to Handstand.
• Receive twice weekly coaching recordings on the progression structure.
• Have access to specific assessments that will help you address your unique weaknesses in strength + flexibility.
• Perform muscular symmetry exercises to avoid overuse injuries from Press training.