Posterior Banded Handstand Circle
If your handstand line isn't straight due to closed shoulders, adding light load against your upper traps, as seen in Posterior Banded Handstand Circles, will help strengthen that line. Open shoulders are necessary for balance.
- Type Of Exercise: Mobility
- Muscles: Shoulders, Trapezius
- Difficulty: Moderate
- Equipment: Resistance Band
Posterior Banded Handstand Circle
- Begin standing facing a fixed resistance band set to approximately shoulder height.
- Grab both handles and step away to create tension in each handle.
- Raise your arms overhead and achieve proper body alignment.
- You must have a neutral chin, sternum in, ribs down, flat back, and a protracted and elevated scapula.
- Make full round circles with your hands that go forward and behind your head.
- Repeat for reps in both directions before ending each set.
- Exercise: Elevated Supinated Wrist Flexor Stretch
- Type of Exercise: Mobility
- Muscles: Forearms
- Difficulty: Intermediate
- Equipment: Panel Mats
- Exercise: Anterior Banded Handstand Circle
- Type of Exercise: Mobility
- Muscles: Shoulders, Trapezius
- Difficulty: Moderate
- Equipment: Resistance Band
