Handstand Training: 9-Min Handstand Program Part 2

If you have any hesitation because of fear then you have to drill walking on your hands and cartwheeling out sideways. And until you're comfortable with that, drill that so that you can work the handstand drills without any fear. So this is for sure a perfect drill if you did your 200 reps of the video number one. Just go up and down, it's a great strength and a little bit of cardio too because your pulls goes up to 70-80% just from 6, 8, 10 reps.

And of course do equally on both sides. If you master this and you feel like things are going well then you can turn the other way and start kicking up to the wall. But this is usually where I face palm and just lose all hope in humanity because when you try to kick up to the wall it usually looks like this. Okay, people collapse, they fall on their necks and they forget everything they learned when they try to kick up.

So I want you to go back to the standing split and not bending the knees so much and trying to rock not your feet to the wall but you rock your hips and your ass over your shoulders. Look at the difference. Now I'm trying to kick up my feet to the wall. So I'm focusing on my feet and I'm trying to place them in the wall.

Now I'm trying to rock my ass over my shoulders. Control. Alright, my heel is touching the wall but I'm not here. Alright, big difference.

So if you try, get so close to the wall that your head can touch the wall. But not so close that you're leaning your shoulder blades in towards the wall. So your head should be able to touch the wall but only just barely. So your head should be able to touch the wall and from there standing split.

And don't try to get up all the way to the wall on the first try because that's when you lose the technique and you start rabbit jumping. So just a few jumps. You can switch legs every time or every second time. And before you know it, your chest will be through your arms and your hips will be over your shoulders.

But make sure you don't look towards the wall because when you crank your neck forward, when you arch your neck, you're going to arch your spine. And you're going to be in the famous banana rabbit. So you rabbit jump and you have a banana back and it's more of a crappy scorpion pose instead of a handstand. So your gaze should be either on your fingertips or if you have really stiff shoulders and tight lats, you should try to get your head through like this.

So instead of being here, you try to go through. So you jump up and you try to drop your head and look backwards. And now the wall is there, so you're never going to fall over. As long as you keep your top leg straight and move your head out, you're in a really healthy shoulder stretching, chest lengthening, opening position.

OK, one tip for those of you. I know you guys have good arm drags and you're strong and tight in the shoulders. And it's for some of you, it's really hard to get any higher than here. But there is a strategy for you.

Two things you can do to do a handstand, even though you're super stiff. And if you can manage to get into this pose, this is for sure one of the best ways to stretch your shoulders. OK, those two things are I assume that you bend your elbows. So the first thing is to straighten your elbows.

But the two things you can do is to keep the hands not shoulder width, but slightly wider. OK, so move your hands slightly, separate your arms to if you try to hold your hands like this and go arms overhead, you can feel that there is compression and your shoulders are restricting you. But if you go really wide, it's easy to lift your arms overhead. OK, so the wider you go, the higher your arms can reach and the more straight of a line you can have.

Of course, if you have super wide arms, it's going to be harder to. So just separating your hands slightly is the first tip. The second tip is to turn the fingers a bit outwards. It makes it easier to straighten the elbows.

OK, because if your handstand with bent elbows, it's not really handstand. You're already doing handstand push ups with bent elbows. So the start is to have straight elbows. OK, let's try that hands a bit wider.

Separate your fingers with control, jump up and get your shoulders, get your chest through your shoulders and relax your neck. OK, your first goal is to stay here for three seconds, then five and then ten. OK, so one leg down, one leg up. And don't forget the engagement of the legs.

Spread your toes, stretch your knees and breathe. So now you have several strategies. You have exit strategies, you have inflexibility strategies, and you have a way to drill with your butt facing the wall and your head facing the wall. And you have a strategy for being tight and strong and straight and work in the middle of the floor.

So this is a great foundation for handstands. And you probably have to work the first video again to remember all the details with the hips and the core. And you will probably have to rewatch this video when you have trained a few hundred of these. So do a hundred kick ups on each leg and a hundred reps on each side.

So one hundred of these, one hundred on the other leg, one hundred kick ups and one hundred kick ups. So four hundred reps minimum. That's the start before you move on to the next video. Good luck guys.