Pike your hips high and press through your shoulders and triceps.
Don't flare your elbows wide, keep them stacked over your hands to protect your shoulders.
With hips piked high and your torso near vertical, lowering the crown of your head to the floor turns a push-up into something much closer to an overhead press. The triceps drive the elbows straight through the press-out, while the chest and shoulders share the load of controlling that stacked, inverted position. It is the classic bridge between floor push-ups and handstand work, building pressing strength with nothing but bodyweight.
Essentially yes, done from a deep downward dog shape. The higher your hips and the more vertical your torso, the more it behaves like an overhead press and the harder your arms and shoulders have to work.
Lower until the crown of your head hovers just above it or lightly touches. Slamming down or stopping halfway both cheat the rep, so control the descent through the full range you can manage.
Raise your feet on a bench to stack more bodyweight over your hands, or slow the lowering phase right down. Both push you closer to handstand push-up territory while keeping the movement strict.
