Press to Handstand Weight Distribution
Posted: 20 Jul 2021, 10:22
I've bought the newly released press to handstand follow along course and I am now in week 3. First of all - as with all your programs - I like it a lot.
There's one thing that seems like an mistery to me though: while my pancake stretch on the floor is not too bad, my active straddle flexibility is kind of limited. I can actively straddle the legs at maybe around 120 degrees. This means that when I enter the straddle handstand and then lower the legs by rotating the hips, I get a lot of my weight distributed on the belly side of my body (versus if I had a complete 180 degree straddle the weight would of course remain vertically stacked). The result is that I start to fall out of balance towards belly side even after a slight rotation of the hips. Now I know people are doing pike presses as well, so generally it should not be that much of a hindrance. But to me it seems like a big obstacle that I don't know how to overcome.
My question: Could you please explain how to tackle that weight distribution? I think this has not been really adressed in the course up until week 3 (unless I have missed it).
Thank you very much!
There's one thing that seems like an mistery to me though: while my pancake stretch on the floor is not too bad, my active straddle flexibility is kind of limited. I can actively straddle the legs at maybe around 120 degrees. This means that when I enter the straddle handstand and then lower the legs by rotating the hips, I get a lot of my weight distributed on the belly side of my body (versus if I had a complete 180 degree straddle the weight would of course remain vertically stacked). The result is that I start to fall out of balance towards belly side even after a slight rotation of the hips. Now I know people are doing pike presses as well, so generally it should not be that much of a hindrance. But to me it seems like a big obstacle that I don't know how to overcome.
My question: Could you please explain how to tackle that weight distribution? I think this has not been really adressed in the course up until week 3 (unless I have missed it).
Thank you very much!