Pole handstand prep 7

1. Start kneeling on a box or bench behind the pole. Place your outside hand on the floor and take your grip on the pole. Keeping that active push through the bottom shoulder, come onto your tip toes and walk your feet forward as far as you can, bringing your weight into your hands and thinking about pushing the chest and head through your arms.
2. Maintain that active push and shrug position through the bottom arm and think about engaging to point your elbow towards your feet. With your feet together, see if you can lift both feet off the bench, even if it’s just a tiny float for a second – that’s perfect.
3. We’re going to work towards eventually lifting up into the handstand position from here.
4. Don’t worry if this isn’t happening at first. It takes time to build awareness and engagement through this movement – stay patient, stick with the progression you feel comfortable in and when your body is ready, it will happen.
5. Once you can do this from the bench, your goal is to try to gradually lower the height of your feet every week or two – you can do this by placing your feet on different height blocks that are lower than your bench – large crashmats work well as well as yoga blocks when you need something closer to the floor!