Get Ready for Handstands: Positional Core Strength

These drills will not only build strength, but help build body awareness of a proper handstand position.

Written by Justin Lind Last updated on Nov 22, 2021

This is the fourth part of a comprehensive handstand video series that will bring you toward a strong and stable free-standing handstand.

While this video will bring benefit to your training regardless of your current fitness or goals, it is intended as part of the larger series. I encourage you to check out all of the preceding parts:

Building the Handstand Position and Strength

This week’s video begins the second prong of a three-facet approach to building a strong and stable handstand. The first three parts focused on developing the requisite mobility of the wrist, shoulders, and thoracic spine. Now begins the work to build a strong and proper handstand alignment.

This video not only offers core strengthening exercises that directly contribute to handstands, but includes drills to learn and groove in awareness of proper handstand position.

About Justin Lind

Justin Lind has been an athlete and student his whole life. While hobbies and sports have come and gone, one thing has remained: a commitment to constant improvement of movement quality. Besides an obsession for health and athletics, Justin remains the consummate student and teacher.

Justin has a passion for learning how to glean the most valuable information from many different communities and philosophies. A former mechanical engineer turned coach and writer; he applies his analytical and structural ways of thinking to the world of health, fitness, and athletics.

While training heavily as a competitive Olympic lifter and CrossFit regionals athlete, Justin suffered a back injury that completely shifted his fitness and movement paradigm. He committed to understanding the flip side of intense training: recovery, mobility, and self-care. Justin soon left engineering to focus on creating empowered athletes who are highly in-tune with their bodies.

In addition to a B.S. in mechanical engineering from California Polytechnic State University at San Luis Obispo, Justin holds certifications in CrossFit Level 1, RKC Level II, and USA Gymnastics.

Justin is currently travelingthe U.S. full-time. He offers remote coaching and workshops for both kettlebells and gymnastics skills at CoachJustinLind.com.

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