How to do a Handstand Push Up (Video!)

Weight lifting can be intimidating. While pretty much everyone can do a bicep curl or squat, things start to get tetchy when you depart from the standard five safe exercises - especially if you are doing something with a high potential for embarrassment. Fortunately, those are my very favorite moves to try. It's a win-win all around: onlookers get some good entertainment and I get to try something new.

This is the first video, courtesy of The Great Fitness Experiment Gym Buddies, in a series of Fitness Moves You Think You Can't Do (But You Really Can!). (My next tutorial will be on how to write really long awkward titles with random capitalization. I'm a pro.)

On the agenda today: Handstand Push Ups!


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Note: The Gym Buddies would like me to tell you that they do not normally tuck their shirts into their pants a la Steve Urkel. I gave them zero warning we were doing this and they were great sports about it!

Do any of you love handstands like I do? Any newbies willing to try it out? What's your favorite weird-o fitness move? Also, what do you think of me adding the occasional video post like this one? Should I keep the videos or stick to text only?

PS> Thanks to FitJerk for convincing me to do a video post (not that it took a lot of convincing...)