When you want to do a handstand, be certain to focus on your form.
The very first thing you want to do to prepare for all the stuff we are talking about here is wrist preparation.
To do this, put your hands on the floor shoulder width apart and rock your body backwards and forwards. Hold the forward position for a few seconds before moving on the back.
Next, turn your fingers back and do the same thing, but hold the back position instead of the forward position.
And ultimately turn the wrists over and lay the back of your hands on the floor. This might be uncomfortable, but if it is too uncomfortable for you, just simply move your hands closer to your knees.
Next work on the Hollow Body Hold to help you prepare to achieve the handstand.
Lie of the floor. Move your chin to your chest, and keep your shoulders down. Bring your legs off of the ground to hold a 90 degree angle with the rest of your body and also keep your knees at 90 degrees.
Then straighten your legs and slowly lower them back down, and extend your arms.
Start handstands with the Wall In position.
Start doing handstands against a wall with your belly facing in toward the wall. If you have difficulty with this, it is maybe a sign that you need to work at improving your shoulders.
Walk your feet up the wall. Then lock your arms and hold the position. Bend your ankles so your toes flatten out against the wall. When you're feeling confident, move your feet away from the wall and balance. Try to keep the hollow body hold here.
To get out of this position, bring your feet back to the wall and then walk them down again.
Then progress to the Wall Out position.
With your head facing toward the wall, kick up in the handstand position. Straighten your body and perform the Hollow Body Hold. Practice pulling your feet from the wall without falling down.
If you're ready to attain this, you are most likely prepared to move on to the free standing handstand.
Before you do this though, practice the L-Stand position to open your shoulders.
Back as if you were doing the Wall In position, walk up the wall and bring your legs to 90 degrees with the wall and your body. Push down and away from the floor.
You ought to be ready for the free standing handstand at this point and there should not be much effort concerned in achieving it, if you have spent a bit of time to master the previous positions.
If you're doing a free standing handstand, and you feel as though you are going to fall, turn your body out as if you were doing a cartwheel to safely come down.
If you're a newbie and you need to build up to doing these exercises. Start with the Hollow Body Hold, then progress to Wall In, then Wall Out, then the L-Stand, and then the freestanding handstand.
To start with do one position for 5-10 seconds and do 6 sets. When you are able to do this, then add 5 seconds... And at last work up to one minute. When you can do this for one minute, move to the next challenging position. Ultimately you can work your way up to the freestanding handstand.
How It's Possible to Get Started With Handstands
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