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Get Ready for Handstands: Strength and Stability

These drills and exercises add a stability challenge to the handstand position making you more equipped to balance freestanding.

Justin Lind

Written by Justin Lind Last updated on September 12, 2017

This is part 5 of a comprehensive handstand video series to 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 larger handstand series. I encourage you to check out all of the preceding parts:

This is part 5 of a comprehensive handstand video series to 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 larger handstand series. I encourage you to check out all of the preceding parts:

  • Get Ready for Handstands: Wrist Prep
  • Get Ready for Handstands: Shoulder Prep
  • Get Ready for Handstands: Thoracic Mobility
  • Get Ready for Handstands: Positional Core Strength
  • Get Ready for Handstands: Intro to Inversion
  • Get Ready for Handstands: Hand Position and Balance
  • Get Ready for Handstands: Find Freestanding Balance
  • Get Ready for Handstands: The Kick Up

Strengthening and Stabilizing the Position

In this video, we will focus on the final vital pieces to balance in a handstand. We have already opened up and strengthened the position. These drills and exercises add a stability challenge to the handstand position making you more equipped to balance freestanding. We will also further strengthen our overhead shoulder position and practice the type of engagement that reinforces a proper handstand.

Add all of these to your handstand regimen and stay tuned next week when we begin to turn upside down!

Justin Lind

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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