There'll be many moments like this over the Open.
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Are YOU ready??
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Photo Credit: Angela Clancy

 WoD: "Holding Up Your End Of The Bargain"

Complete 3 Rounds For Time

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3 Minutes of Handstand Hold in as few sets as possible (AFSAP).

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After each round, perform 5 burpees for each handstand set — e.g., if the handstand hold takes 4 sets, complete 20 burpees before starting the next round.

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• Handstands of all kinds offer us some valuable assets that help make up your well rounded level of fitness. Yet some may be intimidated by being asked to go upside-down as it is may be something we fear, or at the base level, something we just aren't that proficient at (its a well known fact that the things we don't like doing are the things we are not good at). These are the very reasons why we SHOULD do it more often.
• Being upside down exposes us to, what is for many, a brand new world. Psychologically, physically, and physiologically, inversion is otherworldly. We spend roughly two thirds of our life upright and one third in repose. When upside down most of us lose our breath, orientation, and composure.
• Inversion is a great way to develop proprioception & awareness. It develops the shoulders very nicely as we have to brace hard and stay active through the shoulder girdle.
• Our midline too gets a cracking dose from having to stabilise us to keep us in shape. All of this only aided our other fitness endeavours water that be a handstand push up, a heavier split jerk or the ability to pick up your kids/grandkids and put them on your shoulders. Never underestimate the value of a seemingly innocuous 'play move'.
• Hold the standards. Form is priority as always.
• Scale as needed.
• Stay Humble. Work Hard. Be Happy.

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