Stand On Your Hand

It's really hard beat the handstand training. I have been practicing for 3 month to get the perfect handstand posture. The difficulty for handstand is your hand need to have enough energy to carry your whole body just like your leg but this is upside down. There are many type of handstand and each of them has their own benefits. I have read an article before that say handstand is good for health. Have you ever wonder why it is good for health since handstand is upside down and our blood will rush to our brain, and it is still good for health? Here are the 5 reason why handstand is good for health.

 

1. Your balancing will better than others















If you have try handstand, you definitely know that you need a staring arm to carry yourself and also need to have a good balancing skills. One of the handstand called FREESTANDING require you to have full control over your muscle and make small adjustment to avoid falling down.

 Handstand also helps you to build various muscle groups that help you to keep balance in physical demanding situation. Doing handstands against the wall help you to increase the balancing of the body as no other exercise could. This helps you to more tune in with your body movement.
 

2. Circulation, bone and breathing
 

Handstand could be a very dangerous exercise since all your weight is on both hand but did you know handstand could straighten your back bone if you do it in the right way? It could make you less proves to osteoporosis. Handstand helps you to have a healthy spine in your back, shoulder, arm and wrists since you use your hand to carry your body.

The turning upside down of your body helps you to increase the blood circulation to your upper body. At the same time, it stretches your diaphragm and relieves the pressure on your feet and leg. It also can increase blood flow to your lungs.

3.Your upper body is stronger than you know

To have a strong upper body, you need to have time to practice. You need massive amount of energy on your arm, upper back strength and shoulder. For beginner, you might feel that your hand will shake after few second of holding the handstand. However, once you did it frequently, your hand will not shake anymore.

Start building a handstand against a wall. Do it 5-15 seconds at first. Then, try to hold it longer for the next time like 1-2 min maximum for beginner. You can feel your upper body strength better and better per day if you did it often. Believe me!

4. They could boost your mood

Handstand not only makes you become stronger and improve your balancing. However, it could make you feel happier because the blood flow to your brain and has a calming and an energizing effect. It's really help when you're stressed out.

Scientific says that handstand can reduce the producing of cortisol, stress hormone which can only distress you in short-term. It also helps to relieve minor depression and anxiety.

5. They could helps to build core strength

I guess this is everyone's most love which is helps to build core strength. You do not need to spend hours of doing others exercise to build an abs. You just need to standing by your hand to build an abs. It is more fun? Staying upside down force you to stabilize your muscle and it constantly working on your abs without you realizing it.

Another muscle works together in the same time too. As lower back, hamstrings, flexors, oblique and inner thigh muscles. Training handstands everyday helps you to have a super strong core.

 

Remember, doing handstand could have some benefit for you, but if you do not know the step of doing a proper handstand. Beware! Ask someone help you when you really want to do it. If you already know how to do a proper handstand, challenge yourself for doing another pose or pattern of handstand as the picture shown above. On my next post, I'll be talking about how to do a proper handstand. Stay tune!