Hello there!
This week I want to talk a little bit about some great exercises to help increase overhead stability. If you are someone who practices handstands, do you ever feel instability or shakiness in your shoulders? If you’re not someone who practices handstands, does the thought of doing one make you nervous just imagining how weak your shoulders would be to hold you upright?
Overhead instability is common. Most of us don’t do handstands regularly or have to hold ourselves upside down. Many of us don’t have to spend long amounts of time holding something above our head outside of purposeful weight lifting. So it makes sense that most people don’t possess a whole lot of strength and stability in these positions. But it doesn’t mean we shouldn’t address it! Instability anywhere can lead to instability everywhere. The whole body is connected and we should prioritize an overall balanced body.
So…..
Grab a band and work on some of these rotator cuff specific exercises I like to use to help you strengthen those tiny muscles needed to stabilize the shoulder so you can stack or align yourself in your handstand and not dump into your elbows and wrists. To all my bendy people, this stuff is important because you want strong stable joints so you can safely increase range of motion for all things contortion.