Get Ready for Handstands: Intro to Inversion

These drills will help you hone and reinforce a strong and stable handstand position.

Written by Justin Lind Last updated on Nov 22, 2021

This is the sixth part of a comprehensive video series designed to bring you toward a strong and stable free-standing handstand. While this video (see below) will benefit your training regardless of your current fitness or goals, it is intended as part of a larger series.

Check out all the other videos in this series for the complete picture:

This is the sixth part of a comprehensive video series designed to bring you toward a strong and stable free-standing handstand. While this video (see below) will benefit your training regardless of your current fitness or goals, it is intended as part of a larger series.

Check out all the other videos in this series for the complete picture:

Introduction to Inversion

We have spent the first five weeks developing the mobility and awareness for a proper handstand while using drills to strengthen and stabilize the position. This video will take you upside down. We begin with progressions for building comfort being inverted for the first time, and build with drills that reinforce the position.

Whether you are just beginning your handstand journey or have been working toward it for some time, this week will help you hone your position while growing more accustomed to being upside down.

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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