I learned handstand for the first time at age 60! We are never too old. I can still only kick up against a wall, but I can stay up for nearly a minute now and my confidence is growing. Soon I will be able to start trying in the middle of the room. I will get there.

My sister once sent me a vid of her doing a Handstand pushup (only 1 but still) the most impressive thing I ever seen. Thats a long long term goal.

Handstands is one of my goals for the year, thank you so much for this video!!

If you are afraid of falling and need to work on balance, you can do handstands in the water! I do this in pools or at the beach or the lake, and you can progress by trying it in more shallow spots. I think around hip height is a good place to start! (it's also easier on the wrists, as you don't have to carry your whole bodyweight)

When I was a kid I could do handstands and walk on my hands but it’s been a long time since then and I’d like to be able to do it again! I’ve been working on my handstands for a couple weeks now and this video couldn’t have come at a better time!

Truth be told I've been trying to do a handstand for the past 1.5 months and failing miserably. Your timing couldn't have been more impeccable ❤️

I’ve been working on handstands for months, so excited for this video, the handstands at the beginning are wonderful.

This was so so useful, Lucy! I really appreciate that you listened to your viewers and made videos like this that are so beneficial and encouraging. I hope you know that you inspire me daily xx

Handstands are a major goal of mine. I’m a cheerleader, and I can do cartwheels and almost roundoffs, but I want to be able to do more. And handstands are essential. So thank you for making this video!

Hi Lucy, I just discovered your channel and I can really identify myself with you. I was a rather unsportive child/teenager and started exercising with 17/18 years. Since then I've been mostly self-taught and sports have become a major part of my life, with acrobatics and bouldering as my favourite hobbies. I also mainly do body weight training. It's very inspiring to see someone like you become so successful on your personal journey. It is easy to see your passion and you seem authentic, which is not often the case in the fitness/nutrition world on social media platforms. Also your tips and explanations are very helpful, thank you! I'm currently training to balance my handstand for up to ten seconds. Oh my gosh and super impressive how you demonstrated the anterior pelvic tilt!!

such a well put together video, beautiful shots of your handstands and such great nuggets of info!

I've been WAITING for this!! Thank you Lucy for being such an inspiration ❤️

5:20 The exercises start here

Few days ago I went through the experience of my first falling after a handstand and I must say it is such a relieving experience. I can relate to the last words you've said about dealing with fear of falling by preparing the body in order to feel safety. This is what I've been doing so far. But it was such a great experience of falling and enjoying that fall and then laughing at it. I tried to bring awareness to the body, literally think only about the body (sort of a body scan) and set an intention to what is going to happen (prepare mentally to the fall). Well first it was a cartwheel (also first time ) and then handstands and rolls etc. Thank you for sharing!)

I just did my very first handstand today right after watching your video! What an inspiration you are! I've been meaning to try handstands but I'm always scared of falling. After watching this video and attempting 3x against the wall, I was able to hold my handstand without the wall for a bit on my 3rd attempt! I'll upload the 3 videos and tag you! Thank you so much!

thank you so much for this video, Lucy! I'm just embarking on my handstand journey, and your insights, tips & demonstrations are super-encouraging. it might take a while, but I know it will be worth it! xo

I love this Lucy, I just started my calisthenics beginner training this week and I tried out practicing doing handstands So awesome Thank you for this video

I love this so much. Totally going to nail this over the next year! Thanks for the inspiration, girl!

This is exactly what I needed!!!! I'm sooo excited to watch this!!😁😊💛 thank youuuuuuu😁😁😁💖💖

Thank you. Most useful video on handstand for beginners I’ve seen and I’ve seen a lot. 💖

I’ve been doing push ups every day for over a year now, but only recently have I come across callisthenics. I’ve started doing different variations of push ups and I’m gonna start going to a local callisthenics gym next to my house. I’m really motivated to increase my strength and learn new skills and videos like this help a lot. Thank you

had been learning the handstands for a long time then stopped, gonna start over and implements your tips Lucy

SO happy I found your channel, thanks for the great content!

Thank you for your video. I'm so happy I discovered your channel. I was really struggling with finding good videos about handstands and I found yours to be helpful.

I absolutely loved this video! Thanks for sharing this, I am hopeful I will learn this skill that I have been wanting to for the longest time...

Great video! I love watching your handstand practice Lucy! You're so good! Inspired me to do some practice this evening. Thanks for the tips! 😊

This was beautiful. Thank you so much. I am going to follow some of your advices.

Fantastic progression !!! I really loved how you shared your journey to handstanding and more, full of kindness and good vibes, thank you so much, it helps a lot. Wish you the best for the next

One of the best video I have seen so far for beginners to learn a handstand.

You're literally saying everything i do, thank you for this video, I'm still at the wall stands level but after watching this I'll progess a little faster, thank you very much😊

You just crossed my mind today and I thought I need to go back to the video you posted about learning a handstand, I really want to learn it. And voilà - here is a new one!! :-) Thank you so much for this informative and beautifully filmed video, especially the last part with facing the wall and learning how to get comfortable in it (it still freaks me out). Love from Switzerland

Great watching this, Lucy. Inspiring stuff and you are very friendly and natural on camera. Bex x

Thanks for this, Lucy! You inspired and fired me up to get my handstand on!

Hi Lucy I personally love your handstand journey and you've inspired me to start my handstand journey

Really good tutorial! And your pep talk is really motivational!

You gave me inspiration💖, i'll try this first thing in the morning. Thank you!

Wow! I'm thrilled! If I manage to do it, i'll consider myself a happy woman.

Ohh so excited to start this - thank you

DAY 1 : just discovered your channel, one of my year’s resolutions is to succeed at doing a handstand :) I’ll keep you guys updated on my progress to see if it works

I was just searching how to do this yesterday lol perfect timing!

Just did my handstand work today so this was helpful 🤗 thank you!

I like your ideas how to overcome fear a lot! Thanks for sharing!

Wow! Thank you for this video. Very motivating!

I've got to say: you have probably one of the best postures when handstanding I've seen on youtube. Many of the people who do calisthenics videos have a terrible shoulder position, where you can see that they have the strength, but not enough flexibility.

I love your enthusiasm and optimism 🔥

Finnaly a good tutorial! Thank you!

Subscribed!😊 Into learning this!!😍

Thank you!!! Good advice that hands are feet, it’s logical, but visualizing it really helped!

Excellent video, I'll try it

74 years old and thinking about doing a hand stand, but first to build back up my strength and loos 20 lb. of belly. Was in pretty good shape till I hit 70 and went down hill fast. Thanks for the video will work on building my wrists back up one thing I found that worked good was doing knuckle push ups, using just your one knuckle, did start out with two but went to one and found wrists got much stronger quicker using just one knuckle on each hand.

Thanks for the video ☺️ Especially the "getting out of a handstand" part was really helpful! I saw you get out of a handstand like that in an insta story and had since been wondering how to do it ☺️

Wow your story is inspiring! You did it ALL on your own strength, even losing that much weight is impressive! Don’t know why this came on my feed but just here to say i am proud of you❣️ 43 and not a fully able body so don’t know if i can pull this off lol. When i was young i did those things and was a dancer, we called it the candle:) but now 😅. I am always trying to gain weight (far and muscles), Crohn’s and a lot of surgeries makes holding on to food and processing/absorbing it the right way very difficult. Working out regulary is chellanging as well so i do what i can. Body pump at home, ballet exercises, dance workouts, resistance bands etc. Better something then nothing! And walking my high energy Staffie dog:)

Wow! You are really good at explaining every detail and movement. Thank you for this great video! 🙌

Thank you for all the advice provided! I have just started to take my handstands in the middle of the room and your movie helped me to take the fear of falling out of the question.😜 So, thank you!😘

You are so inspirational. I have around 2 stone to loose. Seeing you and where you started to where you are now is amazing to see and motivates me so much! I look forward to binges your videos ❤

Thanks for your valuable video, it is really helpful 🙌

I was in the same situation with you like I lost 15 kg and then get some back on, lose some, gain some,...etc. But I realized that just being on a diet and jumping in the house just thinking like losing some calories is not gonna be permanent in my life, and I sicked of this loop. So, started a search for making workouts as a hobby for me. Since I was a former gymnast when I was a kid, I thought that handstands, splits, yoga, a little bit of pilates would be so much fun and helpful for my future, happiness, and for my body. When I found your videos I thought that "I found a soul who had a similar story to mine, who worked for herself, found happiness, and was able to share it with others." and I really appreciate you for that. I hope I can achieve that too. Thank you for this video. 😊

Thanks for sharing. Subscribed

Thank you I love the fact that u say it's hard and not easy Bc I was so discouraged last year when I saw ppl doing it so easily but I couldn't even stay upside down I've started my journey from today TG I came across you now I'm gonna practice bring upside down first and also use the point toes, pelvic tilt and strong core and glutes tip u gave

I just recently found your channel and you’ve reignited old dreams and goals to get into calisthenics! Is it helpful to get positioning of the lower body in a head stand while working on improving shoulder strength before I can get into a hand stand, or do you suggest just going for it slowly straight into the hand loading?

13:26 Yes, I always hang a while from the pull up bar beforehand to draw blood into forearms and wrists, discomfort is much reduced.

Just the vid I was looking for I do callisthenics and I needed to learn to hand stand 😊

Thanks a lot for sharing your experience :)

So motivating that by self-learning we can reach the level of fitness like yours! 💪 And just enjoying the process

You’ve inspired me honestly

girl, this video is amazing. auto-subscribe ur channel! thank u so much.

5:22 - The instructions start :)

Yay! 😁 A handstand video!

practice makes progress

i wanna learn how to do a handstand, so lad i found our video lucy

Great video!! Thank you for this video!! You explain so well. This is the best video I have found for a handstand. This is my goal for 2024. I can’t do the last exercise, I still can’t walk my hands😢

Very cool! Thanks 👍

Thank you so much!

Thank u it was helpful❤

Good job for the weight loss. Truly not easy and it needs courage and perseverance. I loss 70lbs in 6 months so I know what you went through. To lose weight that much I had to run 5-7km + climbing stairs (1020 feet stairs "koko crater") every day during that 6 months. And eating better of course.

Thank you for this! It’s been a lockdown goal but been a bit discouraged - this and pull ups seem so out of reach! How do you count your handstand training in terms of general fitness training? I know there’s the doing it for the love of it but I need some kinda goal/structure/to know what I’ve done & what I need to rest the next day - eg is 15 mins of solid handstand training like an upper body workout session for the day?

Could you teach more about shoulder mobility? And my problema with handstands is that I can't get to it when I kick off the ground. Is it fear of falling? I can be in a handstand position when I walk into it on the wall and I can headstand :/

THANK you!!!!!!

Did competitive cheer around 8 years ago and learned how to do handstands, I’ve still got that skill but never all that time learned how to stay still and not walk around to rebalance myself. Hopefully I’ll get to a point where I’m not doing a waltz while handstanding lol

Loved this video! My goal is to learn how to handstand this year! 🙌🏻

Nice tips

I would love to learn how to do a handstand 👍

Ohh myyy goshhh i just did a handstand for 6 seconds thank youuuuu

#LUCY LISMORE FOREVER ❤

Nice Video 👍

I live with many health issues; Fibromyalgia and Bone condition’s being my worst painful condition’s. Even lifting just 2lb weight put’s my wrist’s into severe pain. “I once was a Powerlifter,” until I fell under disabilities that course many back, shoulder and neck issues.

Did you ever experience severe headaches? I've been practising handstands for a while, and thought my brain was getting used to the pressure. But 1 month ago after doing 3-4 times 20 sec against the wall handstands, I got such severe headaches the 2 days after. I've stopped my practice since then... :(

I tried this and i hurted my pinky, eye and foot. But its still amazing how im in one piece😂😂😂im still going to try and do a handstand after i made my back flexible and get my split😊

On my first try I did my handstand and I held it for ten seconds😫😫Thank you for this

Someone who talk about the fear of falling, which it's my fear. How long did it take you to do a full headstand and how much did you practice in a week (or day)?

Nice

I'll do handstand too for gymnastics

I love your accent

Good luck👍

i usedto do circus and we had to do wall handstand pushups, i fell and haven't done handstands since. but imma try to do them again

She's beautifil 🥺

Hi Lucy, My ultimate aim is to do a handstand but I thought it might be easier to start off learning a forearm stand first. I’ve been able to hold my legs in the air for about a minute and sometimes I can kick up my legs without touching the wall in front but when I do in the middle of the room, I’ll roll over too much and fall in a heap. Would there be less chance of falling over in a handstand compared to a forearm stand?

Very nicely explained. Probably one of the best around. I used to be stuck on wall handstands because I was afraid of kicking up in midair but looks like it's a lot safer and easier than it seems. Thanks a lot for the video!

I attempted a handstand in the backyard. Last time I did a handstand was over 30y ago & nearly 30kg lighter. Nearly gave myself a hernia. Could definitely feel a pulling in ab muscles from the force of trying to get upside down. Never has anything like that in younger lighter days when did handstands all the time

Just some flashbacks from biochem, what is that molecule on your necklace ? It looks like a Dopa derivative but i cant figure out which one, the common ones, dopamine, noradrenaline and adrenaline dont quite match up, it looks like Adrenaline, but a methyl instead of the hydroxy function and another methyl on the N, unless they werent consistent in which bonds meant what ???