The Savvy Shoulder Stretch | Flexibility | How To Handstand

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In this video, we share our Savvy Shoulder Stretch that will help you increase your overhead range by targeting areas that commonly limit overhead mobility. Excellent overhead mobility will help you achieve perfect alignment in your handstand, which makes it easier to balance and less tiring, so you can hold it for longer.

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Lacking range in overhead flexion or not being able to open your shoulders fully, due to a lack of flexibility, is hands down the single most limiting factor in trying to learn handstands. It's also the most common problem. Until you are able to fully open your shoulders in your handstand, you will not be able to achieve The Golden Line. What? Also, without that Golden Line, your handstand will take more strength to hold and balancing your handstand will be more difficult. We're going to show you how to do our Savvy Shoulder Stretch alone, but it's also great to do with a partner.

Find a bar or a surface that's around waist height. Place your hands on the surface, shoulder-width apart and walk your feet backwards, bending at the waist. You want your hips to be on top of your ankles and your feet to be hip-width apart. Relax into this position, opening your shoulders as far as comfortable without arching your back too much. Stay in this comfortable position for around 30 seconds. Then engage your pecs and your shoulder muscles trying to push the surface into the floor as much as you can. You also want to draw your ribs in and engage your stomach muscles. Stay like this for 10 seconds and then repeat three more times, so four times in total.

Don't arch your back too much, sticking your bum out. Also, if you're not feeling a stretch in your shoulders but you are feeling a stretch in your hamstrings, you can always bend your legs slightly, increasing the stretch in your shoulders.

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