I have to confess, I did this a few weeks ago but wasn’t strong enough to complete the handstand sessions. Now, after starting at day 8 and worked up to sometimes repeating days now find this workout much easier. Even after doing the shoulder mobility session before hand.
I'm go glad I came across your video. From a very long time i wanted to do hand stand but I didn't research a lot about it and randomly started doing it, flopping on and off and never saw results so I just left it. But after your videos I did actually see results and I was so happy. So thanks alottt for this!
Today got better little bit than yesterday in the kick Up my right leg flexibility is good but left leg flexibility is bad, but session was awesome. Got better than yesterday. That was a progress.
Hiya, I would recommend the prepare for handstands course a direct follow up to this one and as you found this one not too challenging I think Prepare for handstands will be just the right level: vimeo.com/ondemand/prepareforhandstands
Hey Natalie, thank you so much for pitting up this series, it really motivates and I do progress. Nevertheless, when it comes to the lift on the elevation with one leg in the air it is my legs that give in. Do you have a tip for that?
Try to lift the leg, that goes up less high and really focus on keeping the standing leg straight. As soon as a little bend creeps in, the bigger bends come along fast :)
Hi Natalie - this was really fun! I noticed that my upper body alignment is not stable when i'm trying to jump - my shoulder would tilt forward when im jumping. Any exercise that I can do to help? Thank you so much!
Really focus on pushing into the ground, pushing the shoulders up to your ears and rounding the back. That's the way forward. I would also recommend doing push ups.
Hi Natalie loving your classes ...I have a doubt when I am pushing against the wall my lower back is touching the wall well before my legs. Is that ok ? Or anything wrong with my technique?
I think that means that you should lift your leg higher up and round your back less. You should also be looking at the floor in between your hands, that will ensure that you are not rounding your back too much!
Is it worth practising kicking up with both legs? Cause its not like kicking up with one leg only will lead to muscular imbalances especially if you're squatting for legs lol. (I mean that a little kick up won't cause any extra muscle growth or anything), so is it ok to only kick up on your preferred side?
Hi Jake, I personally use the same leg all the time. Some of my students find it helpful to try both legs in terms of processing the movement pattern. Depending on what type of practice you are coming from keeping the body balanced may be more or less important to you. As this goes out to many different people, I try to cover a variety of approaches. For sure, trying to balance out movements is very important for injury prevention in the long run. I do pay a lot of attention to balancing out when I do my more difficult moves. In one arm handstands I always practice both arms equally, even though my left will always be a bit weaker. So, you get to decide what matters most to you :)
Ugh this is the first time I felt I couldn't do an exercise properly. The one against the wall with your feet on a stool. I can't seem to get my hips aligned with my shoulder and hands. is it flexibility? Or should I try to kick more up and lean a bit against the wall or? When you said to lift one leg up I also couldnt do it high at all and it started to bend.
Hello, if you are very close to the wall with your hands you can slightly lean against the wall with your upper back. Try to experiment a bit with the distance of the stool and the height of it too. Everyone has different levels of mobility and it sounds to me like you have not found the best angle. This is a tricky one because we are stacking the hips properly above the shoulders for the first time. Are you rounding your back enough? If you keep it straight it will be hard.
@@NatalieReckert Thank you so much for your detailed response Natalie! I just have a quick last question. Would it be the same exercise if I put my feet on the wall like a few episodes back? Because when I do it that way I have no trouble stacking my hips above my shoulders and hands. I could even try to straighten the legs so to be in a pike position I guess it's called? And from there maybe lift one leg? Or is that more advanced? Maybe Im just afraid of falling over when Im on a stool and am too afraid to push the last bit to get my hips aligned. I will try to experiment. Im so happy that I managed the next day with the leg hitting the wall though! Such a good feeling!
@@DK42115 Hello Ana, using a stool is an intermediary step to getting into a handstand on the wall. The difference to having the legs on the wall (which is indeed a more advanced position) is that you have your back against the wall when using a stool, so it tries to mentally prepare you to take the position you need for first kicking up onto the wall. If you manage to hit the wall with the top leg in the kick up, then I think the stool position is not essential. Just leave it out. It should help you, it should not be an obstacle. Just bear in mind that these videos go out to a lot of people but not all exercises suit everyone. Just leave the stool thing out and continuo with the rest or replace it with a legs on wall exercise.
YOOOOOOOW..... been following all the videos from day 1 till now, and wow! Accidentally I can have a moment of handstand this episode. Thanks! Want to ask why my back is somehow not straight? It's curve when I try to do the handstand?
It is because you need to round your upper back more. Also keep pulling the stomach in towards the spine. What we have not covered in this course yet is the hollow body position that helps you to keep your back straight and the ribs flat. That would come next in the handstand training.
Ech it is really challanging. I go back and forth with the lessons, and I did take like a week off these exercises. I think I will be repeating this one a lot. It is difficult to do proper jumps and I can not keep my legs straight when I have to lift one leg up from elevation. But I am not giving up.
Please try again, I hope you succeeded in the meantime. You can practice to keep the legs straight by just lifting the back leg up and down and focusing on keeping the knee straight. Then make sure you keep the upper back rounding and do a big JUMP, bend the knee more and push off with your toes. Here is for reference: ua-cam.com/video/wgcR-6xJvAw/v-deo.html
Sigh. I think I'm going to have to double back further. The handstands-with-elevation are just not lining up properly, which, now I check, might have something to do with my handstands on the wall not lining up properly. I've had my hands further out away from the wall, which means I'm not getting my hips stacked over my shoulders, which means grrrr. I'll loop back to the beginning of week 3 and MIRROR CHECK every time.
Hi Rose, congratulations for your dedication! Do mirror check and also try to film yourself, it helps immensely. Try to round your back as much as possible and put as much energy as you can into your jump! Hope you succeed!
It can sometimes be super useful to take a rest day more or even two days off and then come back to the same class. The body needs time to build strength and muscle memory. Trust your body, you are much stronger than you think your are :)
Hi Parag, If these exercises don't work yet, please go back to the previous videos and work on the easier exercises before trying this one again. If you have pain, then take a break or don't do the exercise.
@@paragshah1450 If you feel pain, you should stop doing the exercises. It sounds like you either need to jump a lot more or work on your flexibility. Don't force anything if you feel pain.
Hello, You are right, it takes a long time to learn a freestanding handstand. Here in this 30 day journey we are just trying to learn how to kick up against the wall and stay there for a couple of seconds. Which is achievable in 30 days I think. A freestanding handstand takes more like 3 months, I have made this Vimeo course here for everyone who wants to work a bit harder and know more about handbalancing: vimeo.com/ondemand/handbalancing
I have to confess, I did this a few weeks ago but wasn’t strong enough to complete the handstand sessions. Now, after starting at day 8 and worked up to sometimes repeating days now find this workout much easier. Even after doing the shoulder mobility session before hand.
I feel wondeful:):):) Thank you so, so much !!!!
This warmth between the palm feels great 🤗🤗
I like that one too :)
I'm go glad I came across your video. From a very long time i wanted to do hand stand but I didn't research a lot about it and randomly started doing it, flopping on and off and never saw results so I just left it. But after your videos I did actually see results and I was so happy. So thanks alottt for this!
Thank you and thank you for sharing your experience, keep up the good work and trust your strength! Best wishes
Hello Natalie from Japan. It's getting difficult😅,but it's fun 💖 I will keep challenging🔥
Yay, keep up the good work. The 24th day is the big one :) Waving to you from London.
Thank you for Day 23. It's fun and challenging!
Yay! Great to see you here!
So glad to see this popped up when I was just about to finish practice of Day 22, I am excited for the new challenge later today!
Wonderful!
Today got better little bit than yesterday in the kick Up my right leg flexibility is good but left leg flexibility is bad, but session was awesome. Got better than yesterday. That was a progress.
Natalie, thank you again for one more lesson. Which videos of yours shall I continue with after this week?
Hiya, I would recommend the prepare for handstands course a direct follow up to this one and as you found this one not too challenging I think Prepare for handstands will be just the right level: vimeo.com/ondemand/prepareforhandstands
Hey Natalie, thank you so much for pitting up this series, it really motivates and I do progress. Nevertheless, when it comes to the lift on the elevation with one leg in the air it is my legs that give in. Do you have a tip for that?
Try to lift the leg, that goes up less high and really focus on keeping the standing leg straight. As soon as a little bend creeps in, the bigger bends come along fast :)
Hi Natalie - this was really fun! I noticed that my upper body alignment is not stable when i'm trying to jump - my shoulder would tilt forward when im jumping. Any exercise that I can do to help? Thank you so much!
Really focus on pushing into the ground, pushing the shoulders up to your ears and rounding the back. That's the way forward. I would also recommend doing push ups.
Day 23 ✅ Gonna spend some extra time after working on hamstring and hip stretches.
Hi Natalie loving your classes ...I have a doubt when I am pushing against the wall my lower back is touching the wall well before my legs. Is that ok ? Or anything wrong with my technique?
I think that means that you should lift your leg higher up and round your back less. You should also be looking at the floor in between your hands, that will ensure that you are not rounding your back too much!
Is it worth practising kicking up with both legs? Cause its not like kicking up with one leg only will lead to muscular imbalances especially if you're squatting for legs lol.
(I mean that a little kick up won't cause any extra muscle growth or anything), so is it ok to only kick up on your preferred side?
Hi Jake,
I personally use the same leg all the time.
Some of my students find it helpful to try both legs in terms of processing the movement pattern.
Depending on what type of practice you are coming from keeping the body balanced may be more or less important to you. As this goes out to many different people, I try to cover a variety of approaches.
For sure, trying to balance out movements is very important for injury prevention in the long run.
I do pay a lot of attention to balancing out when I do my more difficult moves.
In one arm handstands I always practice both arms equally, even though my left will always be a bit weaker.
So, you get to decide what matters most to you :)
Ugh this is the first time I felt I couldn't do an exercise properly. The one against the wall with your feet on a stool. I can't seem to get my hips aligned with my shoulder and hands. is it flexibility? Or should I try to kick more up and lean a bit against the wall or? When you said to lift one leg up I also couldnt do it high at all and it started to bend.
Hello, if you are very close to the wall with your hands you can slightly lean against the wall with your upper back. Try to experiment a bit with the distance of the stool and the height of it too. Everyone has different levels of mobility and it sounds to me like you have not found the best angle.
This is a tricky one because we are stacking the hips properly above the shoulders for the first time.
Are you rounding your back enough? If you keep it straight it will be hard.
@@NatalieReckert Thank you so much for your detailed response Natalie! I just have a quick last question. Would it be the same exercise if I put my feet on the wall like a few episodes back? Because when I do it that way I have no trouble stacking my hips above my shoulders and hands. I could even try to straighten the legs so to be in a pike position I guess it's called? And from there maybe lift one leg? Or is that more advanced? Maybe Im just afraid of falling over when Im on a stool and am too afraid to push the last bit to get my hips aligned. I will try to experiment. Im so happy that I managed the next day with the leg hitting the wall though! Such a good feeling!
@@DK42115 Hello Ana, using a stool is an intermediary step to getting into a handstand on the wall. The difference to having the legs on the wall (which is indeed a more advanced position) is that you have your back against the wall when using a stool, so it tries to mentally prepare you to take the position you need for first kicking up onto the wall. If you manage to hit the wall with the top leg in the kick up, then I think the stool position is not essential. Just leave it out. It should help you, it should not be an obstacle. Just bear in mind that these videos go out to a lot of people but not all exercises suit everyone.
Just leave the stool thing out and continuo with the rest or replace it with a legs on wall exercise.
Day 23 👍🏻 Need to stretch my hip flexors.
YOOOOOOOW..... been following all the videos from day 1 till now, and wow! Accidentally I can have a moment of handstand this episode. Thanks!
Want to ask why my back is somehow not straight? It's curve when I try to do the handstand?
It is because you need to round your upper back more. Also keep pulling the stomach in towards the spine. What we have not covered in this course yet is the hollow body position that helps you to keep your back straight and the ribs flat. That would come next in the handstand training.
Thank you 🙃
Day-23 ✅. But I don't have a stool, chairs are slipping on the floor. What can I do?
How about a couch or a box?
Ech it is really challanging. I go back and forth with the lessons, and I did take like a week off these exercises. I think I will be repeating this one a lot. It is difficult to do proper jumps and I can not keep my legs straight when I have to lift one leg up from elevation. But I am not giving up.
Please try again, I hope you succeeded in the meantime. You can practice to keep the legs straight by just lifting the back leg up and down and focusing on keeping the knee straight. Then make sure you keep the upper back rounding and do a big JUMP, bend the knee more and push off with your toes. Here is for reference: ua-cam.com/video/wgcR-6xJvAw/v-deo.html
I couldn't lift one leg up high..
Can you give me any suggestions teacher..
Have replied to your other question :)
Thank you🥰🥰
I am on the way... :)....:)
Yay! That's really great! Persistence and patience :)
Sigh. I think I'm going to have to double back further. The handstands-with-elevation are just not lining up properly, which, now I check, might have something to do with my handstands on the wall not lining up properly. I've had my hands further out away from the wall, which means I'm not getting my hips stacked over my shoulders, which means grrrr.
I'll loop back to the beginning of week 3 and MIRROR CHECK every time.
Hi Rose, congratulations for your dedication! Do mirror check and also try to film yourself, it helps immensely. Try to round your back as much as possible and put as much energy as you can into your jump! Hope you succeed!
Say 23: Still challenging to put feet flat on the wall and hips over shoulders. Lot's of wobbly arms and sinking in the belly.
It can sometimes be super useful to take a rest day more or even two days off and then come back to the same class. The body needs time to build strength and muscle memory. Trust your body, you are much stronger than you think your are :)
Mam no leg is touching wall and i try to force it than it starts pain thiey muscle
Hi Parag, If these exercises don't work yet, please go back to the previous videos and work on the easier exercises before trying this one again.
If you have pain, then take a break or don't do the exercise.
@@NatalieReckert it pain only when i take leg up
@@paragshah1450 If you feel pain, you should stop doing the exercises. It sounds like you either need to jump a lot more or work on your flexibility.
Don't force anything if you feel pain.
Is it really possible to learn handstand in 30 days ?
Hello,
You are right, it takes a long time to learn a freestanding handstand.
Here in this 30 day journey we are just trying to learn how to kick up against the wall and stay there for a couple of seconds. Which is achievable in 30 days I think.
A freestanding handstand takes more like 3 months, I have made this Vimeo course here for everyone who wants to work a bit harder and know more about handbalancing:
vimeo.com/ondemand/handbalancing
@@NatalieReckertOk... thanks for the info.. :)