You “can” achieve much more with the same effort and the right tools.
Handstand Quest is an app that lets you use your voice to track your handstands to make sure you are practicing regularly and see how you are improving over time.
IS THIS FOR YOU?
Whoever you are, if you’re interested in the art of movement, handstands will be there on your list of great things to achieve. You want to do it so you can improve, evolve, and conquer yourself!
Beyond the sense of achievement, handstands have direct short term benefits on the body and the mind:
- Improve Metabolism
- Boost your mood
- Perfect your core and balance
- Strengthen your bones and muscles
Also, if you do any on the following sports, handstands are very important when you want to practice at a more advanced level:
- Calisthenics
- Yoga
- Gymnastics
- Climbing
- Breakdance
- Acrobatics
- Crossfit
- Capoeira
- Bodyweight fitness
- Pole dancing
- Parkour
- Olympic diving
- Cheerleading
- Martial arts
- Skateboarding
WHAT IS YOUR GOAL?
Depending on the current level, the general theme amongst people for handstand’s goal is to hold it in proper form from 10 seconds to 5 minutes. Identify a realistic goal and set it in the app to track your progress over time towards your goal.
SET A DAILY GOAL
Great, so you have a handstand hold goal, but how are you going to achieve it? You will need to have a plan and execute it. Regardless of what the plan is, you will need to practice consistently to achieve your goal.
The app can be really handy in helping you stay motivated to achieve your daily goal of practice. In addition to guiding you towards completing your daily minutes, the app shows you how you are doing day over day, a month from now, you have clarity on why you did not (or did) make progress. It will also remind you, at your preferred time of the day, that it’s time to practice your handstands, even for just 5 minutes, even if simply meditating about handstands.
TRACK AND MEASURE
How do you know you are improving if you cannot track and measure your progress? How were you doing last month compared to this month?
Thankfully, the app makes it very easy to track your handstand, using your voice. Not only will it help you with tracking your handstands, but also many other exercises that help you strengthen and build progression towards a better handstand.
FREE-STYLE IT OR FOLLOW A STRUCTURED PROGRAM
The app offers pre-built workouts and programs to help you learn and progress gradually towards your handstand goal.
You could also create your own custom workouts or practice one exercise at a time, in prilepin mode.
RECORD, SHARE AND STAY MOTIVATED
Get your friends to hold you accountable. It’s a great way to get feedback on your development and that nudge when you need it. One way the app can help you here is via the share feature and ability to record videos per exercise with timer overlay.
APPLE HEALTH & SIRI INTEGRATION
You can launch the app and automatically turn on voice commands by saying: "Hey Siri, lets handstand!"
If you give permission, your handstand workouts will now show in Apple Health app, for each exercise interval, total workout time and total workout calories.
CONCLUSION
We hope the app will have a real measurable impact on improving your handstands. This app has been built based on feedback from the ground up, so if you have anything to share with us, please use the "Give Feedback" menu in the app. We will take your opinion very seriously.
TERMS OF USE
https://www.handstandquest.com/terms