My newest article on Breaking Muscle will help you work your way up to a handstand against the wall. How to Work Up to a Handstand Against the Wall Doing a handstand against the wall is not a difficult move to do. It doesn’t require much strength, as when you …
How to hold a handstand for a long time?
How to hold a handstand for a long time? As you can see in the video above, I didn’t really hold it for a long time, but what exactly is considered a long time? For someone who is just starting out, 10 seconds is awesome whereas for others it might …
How to do a Headstand for Beginners
A headstand is an intense display of upper body strength. To attempt it without proper preparation could lead to severe personal injury or permanent damage to your body. It is also probably not best for you to jump into something like the headstand without having any idea of what you’re …
How to do a Headstand Yoga
Sirsasana is another name for the Yoga Headstand, which is a challenging posture within the inversion category. Other inversions include postures such as the handstand, the forearm balance and the shoulder stand. There’s a wide array of benefits to be had from learning how to do a headstand in yoga, …
Is A Handstand Easier Than A Headstand?
Are you asking is a handstand easier than a headstand? The short answer is NO! (Although there are some exceptions.) Let me explain why. The handstand has a smaller base of support, i.e. your two hands, rather then the two hands and your head that are commonly used in the …
Head Balancing
I still kick myself to this day. Back when I first purchased my original copy of The True Art and Science of Hand Balancing by Paulinetti and Jones they had another course on head balancing. At the time I was only interested in doing handstands so I only got the …
Benefits of Inversions
This past weekend at a longevity conference I learn one more benefit of inversions. Did you know that every species on this earth suffers from osteoarthritis? That is except for two, bats and sloths. What makes these two immune to this disease? They spend so much time hanging upside down! …
Handstand Muscles
Today’s post will answer another question from the many I regularly receive. “Hey I am Stefan I am now starting out with doing the handstand, but my question is what muscles are involved in doing the handstand and what exercises can I do to improve it?” Let’s start with the …
Walking on Hands
Here is a great question on the value of walking on hands versus standing on them. “Hey Logan I just now started to do the frogstand and I can do it for a long time. I’ve been learning the handstand and couldn’t find my balance and I can walk all …
More Handstand Q&A
Gonna dip into the mailbag today and answer a couple questions. —— I had a question that relate to both my bridging, and hand balancing. When I do either, the blood rushes to my head very soon, not letting me hold either very long. Is this normal? Will it go …
Straightening Handstand, Wrist Strength & More
Diving into a few questions and comments today. “In the hand stand, and especially in the bridge, the main persisting difficulty is an inherent wrist weakness. In fact I observe steady improvement in back and shoulder flexibility, but the wrist is always setting me back!” Joseph I know your pain …
Yoga Arm Balances
Yesterday morning, I decided to do something a little different from my normal morning routine, which involves spending some time upside down. I had come across this yoga video of some fairly advanced stuff including a few yoga arm balances. So I popped it in the player and did my …
Handstand Pushups and Handstand Hand Positions
Got two more handstand questions I’ll dig into today. I have to admit the quality of the questions has stepped up recently at least for the most part. Submit yours at https://www.lostartofhandbalancing.com.Here we go. The first one is from Ari. “OK, Logan, I can balance on my hands, and I …
Increase your Hand Balancing Abilities
Got a question from Patrick. “I am a beginner at hand balancing. How can I find exercises and stretching drills thats will increase my abilities” C’mon people. This is a call to all who submit questions. Be more specific. I can provide better answer when I know what you want. …
Frog Stand
The frog stand makes it easier to learn the handstand by training your hand balancing skills in an easier manner. They call it hand balancing for a reason after all. The frogstand lowers your center of gravity and makes this learning the skills of manipulating your balance with your hands …
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