I've never been able to maintain balance of a handstand as a kid, I haven't actively played sports since middle school, and I haven't done any amount of meaningful exercise in over 3 years now. Yet, I feel very confident I could do a handstand within 30 days of practice.

So was I :-)

If you're talking about a freestanding handstand, held for 15-20 seconds, then I would bet a beer that your confidence is misplaced. It's surprisingly hard, it requires a lot more strength than you'd think and the balance take a lot to learn.

You don't have to take it from me, you can take it from Jeff Bezos's friend's handstand coach: https://www.inc.com/tommy-mello/in-a-recent-shareholder-lett...

This is my guess.

If writing an article that says 0-30 then you have to assume worse that that - someone who has never run a mile.

Is there really anything fitness wise that a person who literally has never run a mile can do in 30 days?

You might as well criticize this by saying that an 80 yo couldn't do this in in 30 days.

depending on what you are doing now, you could also focus on continuous breathing so that you don’t hold your breath, which can be a normal reaction to doing something with power, but limits endurance

Mixing interval training and steady state cardio works wonders

I'm also uncertain how 50kg is the weight of a normal person. If I get below 75kg I'm around 5% body fat, and I'm barely above the US male average height. Getting to 50kg would mean losing a substantial amount of muscle mass, I literally have never had enough fat and so little muscle (even when I was obese) to be able to healthily cut down to that weight. And, again, I'm only about 1cm over the US average.

In this paragraph you seem to be interpreting "A normal person at 50kg" from the parent comment to mean "the average person, who weighs 50kg", when what they are saying is "a 50kg person who is neither too fit not too out of shape". A slim (but not extremely thin) 5'4" (1.62m) woman weighs around that much.

Please be careful.

It can be done.

Kids also learn physical moves much faster. I only know a couple of adults that have learned how to handstand as adults and even then, they were already fit or had good strength to weight ratios. Still took a long time to get a good looking hold.

I’ve seen kids just pick it up and start walking and hopping with control in weeks.

I can still do a handstand, with difficulty, but I can do it. To be fair, it was always with difficulty, it takes a few tries.

I was 14/15 when I could do it.

> Still took a long time to get a good looking hold.

You need to get it right for 1 second to call it a handstand IMO

I don’t know your background, but this reads like the mentality that gives a lot of “bro” workout communities a reputation for being irresponsible and injury prone.

Call it a handstand when you can do a handstand, and work your way up to it humbly. Your joints will thank you.

I don't think many people would call that a handstand. Or at least, if you do then the definition is so wide as to be useless. There's no balance at all involved for 1 sec, just luck.

Just kick up with the right amount of force and you’ll float for a few seconds. That can be achieved with luck.

It’s ok to not be good at everything.

It also depends what "form" you're going for, as capoeristas sometimes have a different method than yogis. Some want you to learn only by shooting your legs straight up, some are fine with rolling into it, some start with a wall, some start from a shoulder stand. I personally prefer the "flail my legs around trying to look at the closet mirror and then fall on the pile of dirty clothes" method.