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Handstand guide for Complete Beginners - 3 steps
Anyone can learn to handstand! Learning a handstand from scratch and becoming comfortable upside down by conditioning your fear of falling from a handstand; building up to the required strength; and developing awareness of your body in terms of your spine, your pelvis, your legs, and your overall stability - these are the foundational building blocks to getting started on your handstand.
One Arm Handstand - Position/Form Guidelines to Make Your Life Easier
After reading this piece you should have a clearer perspective on your approach to the One arm handstand (OAHS), as well as some practical tips you can apply to your OAHS training which will make it more effective and efficient. I’ll cover my recommended form cues regarding shoulder positioning, hip positioning, and more, as well as certain things I think you should steer clear of when approaching the One arm handstand.
Hip and Spine Positioning for a Straight Handstand - Handstand form 102
In this final piece to the handstand puzzle, we will go over how to achieve the correct hip and spine positioning to get your handstand form to perfection. The reason I’ve put hip and spine positioning together is because you can’t really work on one while ignoring the other, especially when upside-down in a handstand. Once you've got this and the previously-covered form cues down, you are ready to put together a perfect handstand.
How to Handstand Kick Up
In this tutorial I will simplify the handstand kick up, the must-know handstand entry for all movers. In other words, I want you to think about as few steps as possible when entering the kick-up, and still perform it as effectively as possible. We will cover the steps for entering the kick up, form cues to keep in mind, and drills for training your kick up.
How to Press Handstand - are you making these mistakes?
How to press handstand? This tutorial for the Press to Handstand attacks the move from three angles: strength, mobility, and balance/technique. In this article I will let you in on the best exercises, progressions and drills to build strength for the Press to Handstand, stretches and exercises to acquire the needed mobility, and techniques to help you learn the press to handstand.
10 Things to avoid doing when learning handstand
if you’ve come here to learn how to do a handstand, then you’re in the right place. In this article I will highlight 10 common mistakes I see people making while learning to handstand, and how to overcome them. Learning to handstand is a crucial part of your calisthenics journey, and it is a great way to build bodyweight strength. Here are 10 things to avoid in mastering one!
4 kinds of Calisthenics Equipment for handstands - Do You Really Need It?
In this introduction to calisthenics equipment for handstanding, I will go over 4 pieces of handstand equipment that I use and recommend. These are: the handstand board, parallettes, and handstand blocks and handstand canes. I’ll go over their different uses, the advantages of using each, and why I recommend you do consider getting yourself some handstand equipment.