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What is a Handstand?
The name of skill already explains what is: it’s when you stand on your hands.
The skill has been around for quite some time. In the past, not a lot of people can do a handstand, but now, a lot has progressed in the skill.
You treat the handstand as an exercise that can help you improve your fitness while making you look like a badass at the same time.
For this article, we’ll be focusing on how to do a straight handstand. It’s the most basic type of handstand and will help you progress faster to other types of handstand once you’ve learned and mastered it.
When we were just babies, after learning how to crawl, our moms and dads were dying to see us stand on our feet on our own for the first time. As adults we’re trying to stand on our hands, but why?
Table of Contents:
1. Handstand benefits – your secret to strong shoulders, insane core & healthy spine🏆
Before we jump into the never ending benefits of being able to perform a handstand, let’s talk about what is involved in performing this skill.
2. 👉How to perform a perfect handstand
There’s a lot of types of handstand, but we’ll focus on the basic straight handstand. It’s the foundation that will allow you to learn other progressions faster.
3. 🤸♀️Handstand progression training – From zero to upside down step by step. The most effective handstand progression
There’s a lot of types of handstand, but we’ll focus on the basic straight handstand. It’s the foundation that will allow you to learn other progressions faster.
4. 📌How to improve your handstand – Pros share the best tips on how to improve your handstand
Avoid the mistakes and focus on perfecting your form.
5. 🔑How to finally hold that handstand – most effective handstand balance drills
Upon conquering your fears on tilting, the next biggest challenge is holding your balance. There are a number of drills you can do in order to finally master balance.
6. ☑️How to create the most effective handstand workout for your level
No matter what is your level, you can actually train them daily since a high level of strength isn’t necessary for handstands.
7. Handstand Canes, Parallettes or Blocks? – 🔎how to choose handstand equipment
Different equipment used for handstands are to assist you improve your handstand and give variation to your learning process.
8. ⚙️Troubleshooting your Handstand
All you need to know to get unstucked – how to analyse your handstand correctly.
9. What’s next?
❤️ 12 types of handstand you should try
Once you’ve mastered your freestanding handstand, it unlocks so many doors for more difficult and fun variations.
10. Take a Handstand Challenge! 💪💪💪
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