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Handstand Challenge Week 5: Core Strength: Hollow Body Holds

At the beginning of April, we started a brand new 6-Week Handstand Challenge.

During the few weeks, we’re going to be working on different exercises you can do to help you build up to doing a freestanding handstand. Don’t be too intimidated—it doesn’t matter if you’ve been practicing handstands for a while now or you’ve never even tried to do one, this handstand challenge is for you.

During Week 1, we focused on building strength and endurance with wall handstands. Week 2 was all about protecting our wrists and avoiding injuries. During Week 3 we focused on our shoulder and hip positioning with pike rolls. During Week 4 we started working on our balance with handstand wall splits.

We’re about to start Week 5, but if you’re new to this challenge, no worries, you can still jump right in! To get the most out of this handstand challenge, make sure to join our private Facebook group where you can share your experience and get in touch with fellow members of the 12 Minute Athlete Community.

For Week 5 of the challenge, we’re going to be working on building up our core strength for a more efficient handstand.

So far in this challenge we’ve talked a bit about avoiding “banana back handstands” when you’re practicing your handstands, but this week we’re going to dive in to how—and why—you should avoid them.

Handstand Challenge Week 4: Balance Practice: Handstand Wall Splits

At the beginning of April, we started a brand new 6-Week Handstand Challenge.

We’re about to start Week 4, but if you’re new to this challenge, no worries, you can still jump right in! To get the most out of this handstand challenge, make sure to join our private Facebook group where you can share your experience and get in touch with fellow members of the 12 Minute Athlete Community.

For Week 4 of the challenge, we’re going to be working on our balance.

There’s no question that for most people, the hardest part about learning to do a handstand is understanding how to balance.

Handstand Challenge Week 3: Shoulder & Hip Positioning: Pike Rolls

At the beginning of April, we started a brand new 6-Week Handstand Challenge.

During the next month, we’re going to be working on different exercises you can do to help you build up to doing a freestanding handstand. Don’t be too intimidated—it doesn’t matter if you’ve been practicing handstands for a while now or you’ve never even tried to do one, this handstand challenge is for you.

During Week 1, we focused on building strength and endurance with wall handstands. Week 2 was all about protecting our wrists and avoiding injuries.

We’re about to start Week 3, but if you’re new to this challenge, no worries, you can still jump right in! To get the most out of this handstand challenge, make sure to join our private Facebook group where you can share your experience and get in touch with fellow members of the 12 Minute Athlete Community.

For Week 3 of the challenge, we’ll be working on our shoulder and hip positioning in a handstand.

One of the hardest parts of learning to do a freestanding handstand is understanding where exactly your hips and shoulders should be.

While we’re pretty good at understanding where our hips need to be when standing to avoid falling over, this is much more difficult to do when upside down, and for good reason—we spend a lot more time on our feet than we do on our hands.

When you’re in a handstand, your hips should be directly over your shoulders. And while this may sound simple enough, until you develop the body awareness it takes to remain in a good line upside down, it can be extremely frustrating.

Here’s an exercise that can help you to start developing that body awareness you’ll later need for freestanding handstands:

Handstand Challenge Week 2: Wrist Health

At the beginning of April, we started a brand new 6-Week Handstand Challenge.

During the next five weeks, we’re going to be working on different exercises you can do to help you build up to doing a freestanding handstand. Don’t be too intimidated—it doesn’t matter if you’ve been practicing handstands for a while now or you’ve never even tried to do one, this handstand challenge is for you.

Last week, we focused on building strength and endurance with wall handstands.

We’re about to start Week 2, but if you’re new to this challenge, no worries, you can still jump right in! To get the most out of this handstand challenge, make sure to join our private Facebook group where you can share your experience and get in touch with fellow members of the 12 Minute Athlete Community.

For Week 2 of the challenge, our focus will be working on our wrist health.

Handstand Challenge Week 1: Wall Handstands

Today is the official start of our brand new 6-week challenge and I couldn’t be more excited to be focusing on handstands.

During the next month and a half, we’re going to be working on different exercises you can do to help you build up to doing a freestanding handstand. Don’t be too intimidated—it doesn’t matter if you’ve been practicing handstands for a while now or you’ve never even tried to do one, this 6-Week Handstand Challenge is for you.

For the Week One of the challenge, our focus will be working on our wall handstands.

Even if you can hold a freestanding handstand relatively well, I’d still recommend working on your wall handstands to help build endurance and perfect your handstand positioning. Just try and hold them even longer to make them more challenging 🙂

Here’s everything you need to know to get started with week one of the Handstand Challenge:

The 12 Minute Athlete 6-Week Handstand Challenge

Get ready you guys—because we have a new 6-week challenge coming your way.

You’ve probably noticed by now that I do handstands pretty often and many 12 Minute Athlete HIIT workouts on the website and app include handstands and handstand variations as well. If until now you’ve been skipping those workouts, it’s time to get to working on your handstands.

Fuel Your Body Nutrition Challenge Week 6: Celebrate With Dessert

At the beginning of February, we started a brand new 6-week Fuel Your Body Nutrition Challenge.

If you missed it, you can read about it here. We’re about to start Week 5, but if you’re new to this challenge, no worries! Jump in next week when we are rewarding ourselves with dessert (this is where the 80/20 rule comes in!).

To get the most out of this nutrition challenge, make sure to join our private Facebook group where you can share your experience and get in touch with fellow members of the 12 Minute Athlete Community.

Being a part of the community will not only help you to stay accountable with your own goals, but also see how others are doing, find support, share your successes and struggles, and of course, get some great, new meal ideas.

Every week during this challenge, we are focusing on one thing that helps us to improve our diet and keeps us on a healthy eating track. The focus of the Week 1 was to eat a protein-packed breakfast. On Week 2, we talked about the importance of healthy snacks. Week 3 was all about veggies, the nutritional powerhouse, and Week 4 we focused on having a nutritious post workout meal. After meal prepping in Week 5, we are ready to start off the last week of the Nutrition Challenge. Are you ready?

In Week 6 of the Fuel Your Body Nutrition Challenge we’ll celebrate the last five successful weeks with healthy desserts!

Fuel Your Body Nutrition Challenge Week 5: Meal Prep

At the beginning of February, we started a brand new 6-week Fuel Your Body Nutrition Challenge.

If you missed it, you can read about it here. We are about to start Week 5, but if you’re new to this challenge, no worries! Jump in next week when we are preparing our meals for the busy week ahead.

Week 5 of the Fuel Your Body Nutrition Challenge is all about meal prepping. Here’s why you should take time every weekend (or whatever day fits best in your schedule) to prepare foods for the week ahead:

Fuel Your Body Nutrition Challenge Week 4: Post-Workout Meal

At the beginning of February, we started a brand new 6-week Fuel Your Body Nutrition Challenge.

If you missed it, you can read about it here. And even if you didn’t participate in the first few weeks of the challenge, don’t worry—it’s not too late to jump into week 4, where we’ll be focusing on post workout meals.

Week 4 of the Fuel Your Body Nutrition Challenge is all about post-workout meals. Here’s why post-workout meals are so important, and what you should be eating after a tough workout:

Fuel Your Body Nutrition Challenge Week 3: Eat Your Veggies

The third week of the 6-week Fuel Your Body Nutrition Challenge is here! If you missed the last two challenges, you can read about them here and here. And if you haven’t started yet, don’t worry—you’re not too late. Join us for the upcoming week where our focus will be to eat more veggies.

To get the most out of this nutrition challenge, join our private Facebook group where you can share your experience and get in touch with fellow members of the 12 Minute Athlete Community.

Being a part of the community will not only help you to stay accountable with your own goals, but also see how others are doing, find support, share your successes and struggles and of course, get some great, brand new meal ideas.

Every week, we focus on one thing that helps us to improve our diet and keeps us on the healthy eating track. The focus of the Week 1 was to eat a protein-packed breakfast. Week 2 focused on making smart choices in snacking.

This upcoming Monday, we kick off weekly Challenge #3: Eat Your Veggies. Next week, our goal is to eat a minimum of 1-2 handfuls of veggies in at least two meals.