Hi! I am Dina Prioste, and welcome to Get Exercised. Today we are going to do an awesome upper body strengthener called an L Shaped Handstand. This exercise is still very challenging for me even with my massive, massive guns. So grab your mat and let's go to a wall.
Not only is L Shape Handstand a strength builder but it's also quite a shoulder opener as well. It could be difficult if your shoulders are tight. So we are going to first practice with some downward facing dog. Come into a long plank pose. So long plank pose; hands are on to the shoulders, lift your hips up to come back into downward dog, feet a little wider than hip width. And just work on getting your back nice and long here and feel that opening right behind the shoulder blades. If your back is really rounded out, if you are new to yoga we can keep a deep bend in the knee and really just focus on making a link in your back. If your shoulder seem tight, I encourage you to keep practicing downward dog, it takes a long time to get those stubborn shoulders to open up.
Now to prepare for L Shaped Handstand you need to sit away from the wall with the feet just flat up against the wall because you're going to measure the distance of your leg away from the wall.
From here take your hands right by your butt, mark that spot there, you can keep one hand there and just flip over into a table top, your hands are along the same plain and a little shoulder. From here lift your hips up and come into a short downward dog with your heels just up against the wall.
Now this is the fun part. You are going to take one foot to the wall, and then the other foot to the wall, to come into your L shape. Really engage your core straight, press down with your hand and look at the wall, and breathe. Okay, I need a break.
If your shoulders feel really tight at first, you are going to want to walk your hands further away from the wall. You can do that at first, you can also walk your feet a little higher in your L, but I really encourage you as you start to open up; just try taking the hands up to the spot, it's supposed to be going to where you measure the length and just work on coming into this true L. Guns, massive guns.
Next week make sure you are warmed up already before I show you an exercise that's the love child of Warrior II and Gate Pose. You didn't know they made it but they did and it's a booty kicking side stretch.
Thanks for watching, I am Dina Prioste and you have just been exercised.
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