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A pike push-up involves lowering your head from a downward dog position until it touches the ground, then pressing back up to the start position.
It is a great exercise to put more emphasis on the shoulders and start building the strength required for a handstand push-up.
The first progression after full push-ups towards the handstand push-up, is the decline push-up. By elevating your feet, more weight will go through the upper body, which will condition your body ready for the next progression.
The first progression after full push-ups towards the one arm push-up is the close hand push-up. By moving your hands closer together, it puts more emphasis on your triceps, which will need to grow stronger in order to perform a one arm push-up.
Before beginning these progressions towards your first pull-up, I advise that you work through the beginners calisthenics tutorial in particular the inverted rows will help you make good progress with the pull-up
After reading the tutorials from this introduction to calisthenics, if you only add this exercise to your workouts, then it will have been worth your time. [embedyt] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P8nZVHxpAh0&width=450&height=253&rel=0[/embedyt] Paul Wade
In the incline push-ups and inverted rows tutorials of this series, I listed the rectus abdominis as a stablising muscle. This is because your abdominal muscles are made for stabilising the spine and