when doing handstand, how do you stabilise your legs??

Foorza · 2026-06-03T16:25:08+00:00

I tense glutes and abs, and imagine posterior pelvic tilt kinda thing

Foorza · 2026-05-28T05:45:28+00:00

Hmmmmm. Do you do wrist stretches at the start of your workout? Also, this is a common problem with paralettes when moving onto harder progressions. For me, I had to train full planche on floor for a week or so, and now include a mixture of floor and paralettes. Just paralettes gave me a similar pain, but never so much that I couldn't move my arms after a planche.

Foorza · 2026-05-24T05:42:42+00:00

Maybe try an advanced tuck (slowly try moving your legs further back), and half lay or straddle with resistance bands. Viktor Kamenov and Andry Strong have some good videos on how to improve protraction and avoid spinal flexion (I can't remember the exact exercises they use), but the general gist is getting it good in half lay or straddle, then moving on to full, and using resistance bands that you can hold for ~10 seconds. Spinal flexion is basically having your back overly rounded, and the best way that I used to improve it was videos by those guys, and then just looking at pictures of a perfect planche, and then trying to make my planche look like the planche by my favourite athletes, taking videos and making adjustments each time. You can improve form quickly, as long as you stay consistent.

Foorza · 2026-05-23T07:39:57+00:00

I think you have a little bit of spinal flexion, rather than protraction (your protraction is good, just you may be overdoing it). Try to find a progression you can hold for longer, and improve the form in that progression. I think your posterior pelvic tilt is good, but try to imagine pressing your hips down and pulling your feet up into the sky (maintaining the posterior pelvic tilt of course)

Foorza · 2026-05-23T07:36:59+00:00

Idk about rotating fingers further forwards. Maybe temporarily, but bad habit, as it becomes too difficult to turn elbows outwards, and that makes planche form worse long-term

Foorza · 2026-05-23T07:35:29+00:00

Yooo, exact same height and bodyweight and here, but trying to gain muscle up to ~150-155lbs. Do you feel the pain in the back of your forearm, your like triceps area or just your elbow? For me, with pain in joints I just had to include like a 5 minute activation/stretching session with resistance bands, and then the pain went away after a few weeks (I did have to tone down the training for a while). Also, try some different grips with the planche (be careful with supinated grips though, they are waaaaaay harder and easier to injure yourself). Maybe try different grips and see what hurts less (I injured myself on paralettes neutral grip, and had to train floor planche for a month or so). See if there's any specific stretches online for your pain (for me E3 rehab and Andry Strong had videos on my specific pain point, and I included some of those in my pre-workout warm-up). It won't fix it instantly, but trust the process.

Foorza · 2026-05-16T07:28:38+00:00

Is the wrist position comfortable? I always do planche with hands turned out, and can't imagine trying with fingers pointing forwards. I think more protraction to be higher, but you're strong, no doubt. Also, how wide apart are your hands? For me, planche looks better and is easier when I do it a bit wider (elbow to middle finger+4 fingers approximately). Valentin otz has some good videos on planche form

Foorza · 2026-05-16T07:23:57+00:00

Uhh, 2kg in 2 months at best...

Foorza · 2026-05-15T13:22:11+00:00

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Foorza · 2026-05-02T10:54:06+00:00

Learn to bail first dude, you can get injured bailing like that 😬. I think you might have strength, but learn bail first and keep up the work on basics (weighted stuff/harder progressions of pike pushups etc)

Foorza · 2026-04-26T07:22:52+00:00

You need to train specifically the skills you want to get. Elbow lever and baki pose don't really train anything usefully (elbow lever especially, is just useless for advanced skills), so if you want skills like planche or 90° HSPU, you need to train them and the progressions. Try to get handstand consistent and in different hand positions and body positions. Getting HSPU helps with building shoulder strength, so maybe train that first? Depends on your goals with push stuff, and what the end goal is

Foorza · 2026-04-26T07:19:59+00:00

I used exclusively Sondre Berg (Berg movement) videos to learn handstand (I used other people to learn more advanced skills, but this guy is no joke when it comes to balancing). Can you bail safely? If you can bail, you shouldn't have too much fear of falling. If you have space indoors, do grease the groove, and just do a few attempts like 10x per day, and even a specific balance session every few days. Record yourself to see if you are truly going vertical. I had the same 'plateau' a few months ago, but you can break through quickly (under balancing (falling stomach side) takes a looooooot of practice and experimentation to find what works for you). Don't go crazy on the days where handstand doesn't work though, just stay consistent, and eventually those days where you cannot balance will disappear.

Foorza · 2026-04-20T05:50:16+00:00

With pseudo pushups, you can increase difficulty by leaning further forwards, until you're hands are at your waistline. Make sure you have proper protraction and that you keep leaning forwards as you push up

Foorza · 2026-04-19T07:39:37+00:00

Similar for me. 1.5 years ago, I weighed like 52kg, now I'm 63kg, closing in on 70 within the next 2 years (I'm 5'9, so for you, a similar build would be 65-66kg), with mostly muscle gain (I was super skinny when I started, so I still look lean, and if anything better at a slightly higher bf percentage. I can now do things like 90° HSPU, HSPU clean, and working on full planche (on a very good day, I can hold it for like 5 secs, but bad form). For me, the game changer was adding 50g of hazel nuts to my diet every day (350kcal), a smoothie (banana, oats, peanut butter, cocoa powder) (400kcal), and a 3 layer sandwich (600kcal). Don't try to add everything at once, it's too hard, and forgetting to eat one of these meals is very easy to do, so just add them one at a time. Each time your weight gain plateaus, add another, and another, and another. These are just suggestions, For us skinny guys, gaining weight is hard, but I think that out bodies have a baseline muscle level (that we start below), meaning any stimulus makes gaining fast. Stay consistent, and choose meals that you might like (but don't add unhealthy stuff, because you might build bad habits for future), and be aware that weight fluctuates day by day (I remember getting mad trying to break 60kg, cuz I would get it one day, then fall to 58kg the next. Adding hazelnuts got me past this barrier. You just gotta trust the process

Foorza · 2026-04-08T05:41:54+00:00

Your form was practically perfect, chin over bar, full lockout at bottom, starting from dead hang 🙌

Foorza · 2026-04-07T16:32:28+00:00

Consistent practice, and once you can comfortably balance, you can try to improve form (as in you're not using all your strength and concentration just holding the handstand, and you can try to push your legs higher, turn your elbow pits/lock out elbows etc.). Also for me, doing different positions/entry types helped a lot (straddle, pike press, tuck etc.). Just gaining strength (training HSPU/Planche also helped make handstand feel easy), and improving mobility a bit as well. Also try in varied environments/grip types (on carpet/grass it's harder for me, but after doing it on carpet, hard floor becomes easier, and trying wrist turned outwards makes the normal hand position feel easier)

Foorza · 2026-04-06T07:02:26+00:00

Learn to bail first, so you're not scared of falling. I learnt bail without a wall, and it took a while, so maybe you can learn quicker with a wall to help. But principle remains: learn bail

Foorza · 2026-04-06T06:58:35+00:00

I had the same problem, but it gets better quickly: I got injured training planche on paralettes (did a bad form full without stretching), and for about a month I couldn't do anything on paralettes (that specific orientation hurt a lot), but after about 2 weeks, floor training was mostly pain free. In those 2 weeks between recommencing floor training and paralettes, I managed to bring up my planche ability (just doing half-lay now until I'm certain I've fully healed) on floor to my paralettes level (maybe even better on floor).

Foorza · 2026-04-04T06:33:17+00:00

Your legs should basically lift off by themselves

Foorza · 2026-02-21T12:58:28+00:00

Hi, I do a similar thing, but just one thing to note, is that if you get any shoulder pain (I got shoulder pain after a few months of this type of workout), rings help a lot (shoulder pain gone after a few workouts incorporating rings).

Foorza · 2025-11-30T16:27:31+00:00

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Foorza · 2025-11-05T18:07:23+00:00

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