My Handstand Journey

Growing up I didn’t take care of my body or health at all. I was overweight, lazy was picked last in team sports at school. In my late teenage years I discovered strength training, dieting and running. It was a wild ride with a lot of ups and downs when it came to my weight and my motivation. When I trained strength, I focused on aesthetics. I mostly focused on an end goal. Being able to get that sixpack for a foto and not caring how unhealthy physically or mentally getting it would be. It definitely was not sustainable and I knew I needed to change my relationship with food, training and health.

Then I discovered handstands.

It started with seeing a fotos of a handbalancer on one arm, and his training on YouTube. It looked so incredible! I started out playing with kicking and falling, climbing up the wall and making all kings of mistakes. I didn’t have a found in dance or gymnastics to help me. I started out stiff, weak, and with almost no flexibility, but I loved the mixture of simplicity and complexity in the training. After some (not so successful) attempts at teaching myself, I sought mentorship from Mikael Kristiansen. It wasn’t until I had my own coach that my hand-balancing really took off. It shaved years off my learning curve. I have been coached myself for 3-4 years. I know how much impact the right program, feedback and mentorship have during this epic journey of joy and frustration. I work as a coach because I get joy from seeing others enjoying what I am passionate about and have spent many years figuring out.