Name: Playbook - Taylor Mei - W2/D1
Uploaded: 2024-04-01T13:08:26.750Z
Duration: 45 min
Description: W2/D1

Christine

Hssan Moaminah

Really starting to feel the skills developing although I have 0 body awareness so I can tell it’s going to take some time 😂

Chelsey

Have a guide on what muscles to focus on and if I should be pushing threw my shoulders/focusing on pelvic tuck / etc would help! 🙏🏼 But DEFF a great workout and strengthening workout!💪🏼

Sheri

Hope

Had fun doing the circuits! Headstands are hard 🥲 they hurt my head, but other than that a challenging yet fun workout!

Sophia

Excellent foundation skills & strengthening. Great stuff. Love a little more detail explanation of positioning as most I'd never tried before. Loved it tho. Feel strong 💪

Adele

Brooke

Daniah Syed

Hard but good! 👌🏻😁 built my own home equipment haha 
My wrists are just not too happy but I am confident it will get better

Tessy

I really enjoyed it! Could use more points of performance for each move so I know what to look out for. But I really liked the variety of movements.

Carl

Good stuff. Need more cues and explanations in the exercises

Aaron

It was more challenging than I was expecting, but I’m grateful for the push. I know now what I need to stretch more, my wrists haha! Thanks for the workout/ drills!

Andrea

Katia

I found one legged pike handstand hard with step. I could do it better on wall and higher up. Couldn't straighten my body with block

Jason

The donkey kick is so hard for me. One year training is still not able to bring my hips over my shoulders 😭 is there any particular tips or it’s just practice practice practice ? Thanks guys 🙏🏻

Sarah

Box one legged hand stand I found hard to straighten out. Wrist a little sore at end but otherwise everything was good

Angela

This is my 3rd week trying this workout and I can feel the control and improvement in these exercises already. These exercises also highlight the need to work on mobility for best performance. I have been doing week 1 & 2 day 1 for past three weeks in order to build more strength and readiness for the following days in this program.

Gabrielle

I did not finish this one. I wish there was better instructions on different poses so to make sure we're not going to hurt our wrists and back.  I have wrist pain and not knowing how to properly do these moves make me feel unsure and discouraged to continue.
You are so wonderful and I'd love to train with you although the app overall is missing cohesion and instructions. The fact that we have to stop in between each set to close the tab and open the next set  cause interruption in the flow plus there's no voice instructions so we have to fully stop to read what to do while there are missing details.
In the section or providing notes also there's no scroll down so if I type more that two sentence I cannot see the text I'm typing nor I can bring the bracket down to where my note ends. 

I believe these are mostly the app problems and the way things are put together and I understand improving the app is not easy to do but I really hope to see some improvements at some point. 
I'm on trial month and unfortunately I don't think I'll continue since the app is not really user friendly although I deeply wished I could train with you in a better circumstances.

Thank you for all the inspirations so far.

Best.

Indigo

With the box ils complicated to do rest the leg in the air. Do you have Any advice to success this exercise please ?

Alexandra Gatto

I rated three stars because I chose to stop because of wrist pain. Somewhat too intense for beginners in handstansa

Louise Buijs

Third time doing this routine and I got better, now forward to week three 😁

Claudia Cabrera

Stephanie

So much fun and also so tired but I really feel the workout 😮‍💨

Tatiana

I actually had a difficult time with the headstands 🥺 I’ll have to start practicing those. Great workout!! 💕

Aylin

Carla

Pavallam

Alley

Noemie

Margo

Enjoyed that one! Feel like I'm really conditioning my shoulders (which are pretty weak!)

Anonymous

Loved the donkey kicks at the end! Made me feel really strong and getting some hang time 🤩

Marie

Aliyah

Annie

Aaron-Micheal

Great workout. Shoulders on fire! Second time I’ve done it and see already improvement!

Tori

This was great. Done twice now. I’m struggling with the pike press though, I’m
Not very flexible in my claves, hamstrings and ankles so can barely touch my toes on a good day. Even in the straddle I can’t seem to lift my hips and heels up. Is there any tip or alternative? Thanks!

Used the W1/D2 as a warm up! I love how W1/D3 really focuses the upper body holding part of the handstand! Really feel the balance shifting from palm to fingers and vice-versa

Jasmine MM 🐻

Second time this week and it was just as good as last time!😁

Holly

Would love a little more detail on each exercise I.e gaze forward, or at wall etc. I’m new to this so I like all the direction I can get!

Megan Bates

Stacey

That’s was challenging. I had really hard time trying to stay parallel. And keeping my leg strength.

Latasha

Did this after the day two week one single leg program and help my legs can’t push one more donkey kick! 
This is perfect though this program and Taylor are both awesome! 🤩

Anagha

Slowly getting the hang of handstand away from the wall. 🙂🙃

Janelle

Circuit 1:  
- Rockets 3 x 10-12  
- Box tuck-stand 3 x 2 (10 second hold each side)  
- Headstand (wall assisted if needed) 3 x 2 (10 second hold each)  

Circuit 2:  
- Tuck handstand weight shift 3 x 8-10  
- Box assisted single leg tuck handstand 3 x 2 (10 second hold each side)  
- Leaning tuck planche 3 x 5  

Circuit 3:  
- Towel finger curls 3 x 10  
- Press rocks 3 x 5 (straddle or pike)  
- Donkey kicks 3 x 8-10

-Start in a push-up position 
-Bend at the knees and waist bringing your butt to your heals 
-Move back to the starting position

Rockets

Box assisted tuck handstand

Headstand hold

Circuit 1

-Get into a wall assisted tuck position hand stand 
-Press your feet against the wall shifting the weight on your shoulders

Wall assisted tuck handstand weight shift (HS)

Box assisted single leg tuck handstand

Leaning tuck planche

Circuit 2

Towel finger curls

Press rocks (straddle or pike)

-Stand on your hands and feet with bent legs 
-Press up with your legs quickly so that your legs come off the ground and you are in a partial handstand 
-Land safely

Donkey Kicks

Circuit 3

W2/D1

Note clearly the stuff we need during training

Justine

melanie

Pilar

W1/D1

Been trying before to do a handstand… excited to try your version ✌🏼💪🏼

Vicky

Do I have to sign up for this challenge today if I already use the app?

Aiste

W1/D1 Introduction to the Challenge

I’ve been wanting to learn how to do a handstand for ages. So excited to be committing to this challenge for the next weeks!

Mina

Javier Castillo

W1/D1 Top 3 Challenge Tips

I didn't know about the important of stretching small steps make great achievements

Aleksandra

Felt good to stretch the wrists so thoroughly

W1/D2

Amazing! Feeling sooooo good after that session

W2/D2

Wall planks were definitely a shoulder burner!!! 😪 🔥 and when I was doing the kick ups my body naturally wanted to hold the handstand 😆 🧘🏼‍♀️

Great engagement 👍🏽. My head is extremely sensitive to the floor when doing headstands so I implemented a headstand stool so my shoulders can support me instead of my skull and it was good! I also seen some slight progress in my handstand control so definitely looking forward to continuing. Thank you!

W3/D1

Man, I know this  will pay off in the end.

Chris

Great strength, skill & endurance building foundations for handstands. Feeling stronger every time I do one of your workouts 👍💪👏

Arsha

W3/D2

Great workout. I am losing the fear of being upside down and of aborting a handstand whn losing balance.

However,  there could be a few more details in the descriptions. Sometimes I don't know for how long to hold and what it actually meant by a "repetition".

I also need to work a little more on my flexibility but was able to do all the exercises if not as well executed. Not sure why at 55 I decided to learn how to handstand but it compliments my ashtanga yoga really well. 

I have definitely built more strength

Kirsten

With the box assisted tuck handstand, I couldn’t get my bent leg in the same angle as yours I think because of my mobility between the split of my legs. When I tried to match your bent leg’s angle, my straight leg would come in as opposed to being fully straight upwards. Not sure how to work on that?

It was helpful to constantly be practicing different handstand positions and drills. I also quickly noticed I need to still build my wrist resiliency. Thank you for the helpful drills. :)

W2/D1

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