Tripod
The Tripod is the first step toward a headstand. Once you build this stable base, you can extend your legs upward to work on your core line.
- Type Of Exercise: Skill
- Muscles: Shoulders, Triceps
- Difficulty: Beginner
- Equipment: Body Only
Tripod
- To set up, kneel on the floor (sitting on your heels) and place your hands flat just in front your knees.
- Lean forward and place the crown of your head about a foot in front of your hands, so that your elbows form a 90-degree angle.
- Now place one knee at a time onto the back of your arms.
- Find your balance in the tripod and hold still for time.
- Exercise: Forearm Stand
- Type of Exercise: Skill
- Muscles: Shoulders, Abdominals
- Difficulty: Beginner
- Equipment: Body Only
- Exercise: Prone Weighted Flexion
- Type of Exercise: Strength
- Muscles: Trapezius, Shoulders
- Difficulty: Moderate
- Equipment: Barbell, Weighted Dowel
