Stalder Press
Description
The stalder press is an advanced gymnastics skill where you press from a seated straddle position (legs wide, hips between your hands) up to a handstand without jumping. It demands extreme hamstring flexibility, hip compression strength, and overhead pressing power. It is a staple skill in artistic gymnastics.
Equipment Required
Stalder Press Instructions
- Start seated on the floor in a wide straddle with hands on the floor between your legs.
- Lean forward onto your hands, shifting your weight onto your palms.
- Using hip flexor and shoulder strength, lift your hips up while keeping your legs in a straddle.
- Continue pressing upward, stacking your hips over your shoulders.
- As your hips rise above your hands, begin closing your legs together overhead.
- Press all the way up to a full handstand.
- This requires elite flexibility, compression, and pressing strength.
- Train with parallettes for extra clearance and handstand press progressions.
Stalder Press Form & Visual
Stalder Press Benefits
- Builds elite pressing and compression strength
- Demands extreme hamstring flexibility
- Foundational gymnastics skill
- Develops body control and balance
- Impressive calisthenics achievement
- No equipment needed (parallettes help)
Stalder Press Muscles Worked
- Anterior deltoid
- Triceps brachii
- Hip flexors (extreme compression)
- Core (heavy)
- Serratus anterior
- Adductors (straddle hold)
- Hamstrings (extreme flexibility)
Stalder Press Variations & Alternatives
- Pike Press to Handstand (legs together)
- Straddle Press to Handstand
- Handstand Push-Up
- Wall Handstand Press
- L-Sit to Handstand Press
