Tripod

The Tripod is the first step toward a headstand. Once you build this stable base, you can extend your legs upward to work on your core line.

• Type Of Exercise: Skill
• Muscles: Shoulders, Triceps
• Difficulty: Beginner
• Equipment: Body Only

Tripod

1. To set up, kneel on the floor (sitting on your heels) and place your hands flat just in front your knees.
2. Lean forward and place the crown of your head about a foot in front of your hands, so that your elbows form a 90-degree angle.
3. Now place one knee at a time onto the back of your arms.
4. Find your balance in the tripod and hold still for time.

• Exercise: Forearm Stand
• Type of Exercise: Skill
• Muscles: Shoulders, Abdominals
• Difficulty: Beginner
• Equipment: Body Only

• Exercise: Prone Weighted Flexion
• Type of Exercise: Strength
• Muscles: Trapezius, Shoulders
• Difficulty: Moderate
• Equipment: Barbell, Weighted Dowel