@actionjacquelyn on Hand Placement 👐 ・・・ LAST DAY of the #getupsidedown Challnege!!! I’ve enjoyed connecting with each one of you through these last 7 days. I love the progress I’m seeing and all the hard work. You guys are incredible!! I’ll be announcing the winners this Friday at 7am PST, live on Instagram. One lucky winner will win a pair of @aloyoga Leggings, and one will win a protein supplement bundle from @vivolife (Use my code ACTION10 to save 💰). I’ll be closing the challenge on Friday as well, so if you’re curious to check it out sign up before it’s closed! (Link in bio 👉🏽 @actionjacquelyn) ________________________ Today’s post reminds me of Thing from the Addams Family! Haha 😆 But today I’m showing you how to use your hands in handstands, or any hand balance. 🙌🏽 Your hands are not fixed/stiff when you’re in handstand, instead they are constantly calibrating with the rest of your body, so if you saw a video of my hands in handstand you would notice the back and forth movement of my hands balancing the pose. It’s just like when you’re balancing on one foot, and your toes and ankles are constantly wiggling around to find balance - same thing here with the hands. The difference between balancing on hands is that you have to press into your knuckles in order to use the muscles in your hands. If you leave your hands lifted off, like in the wrong picture, then you don’t give your hands the opportunity to work or help your balance, and instead all the weight is poured into the wrists - and that hurts! 😖 Instead, press into the first finger and thumb knuckles so much that you’re able to fire up the forearms and take the weight out of the wrists, and into the hands. 👐🏽 Your forearms should be on fire 🔥 Tag a friend who you think might find this helpful!! #takeaction #getstretchy __________________ Photo by @krisziskin #yoga #yogatutorial
