Unlock Your Hidden Power With Horse Stance 

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I'm 71 and I practice these every day. Leg strength is SO important as you get older. And... this is one of the best stances to improve prostate health.

I always begin my day with the horse stance in the morning. I don't set a timer i just do as long as I can without dropping down. It's kind of like a meditation where you overcome the external distraction of your body.

Just did my first horse stance: - Set 1 - 1 minute & 55 seconds. - Set 2 - 1 minute & 40 seconds. - Set 3 - 1 minute & 49 seconds. It really starts to hurt my hip socket. 5 minutes feels far away... But I like having it as a goal to aim for. Love this channel, Daniel; thank you.

After following you for more than 2 years, this is by far your best video productionwise! Awesome lecture as always, Daniel!

I’ve been doing the horse stance for the last 3 months or so. I can now touch my toes and I’m 64 years old. It’s an amazing exercise for the body and the mind. I have so much more flexibility without injury and I’m SO much stronger! Amazing thanks!

Isometric exercises are under rated. They are challenging and transform your body fast. I also like how strong you become mentally with how long you hold each position.

One of the funniest memories I have of teaching karate is the collective suffering of my students in a horse stance. For some reason I never found it hard but I could sit in it peacefully while they were shaking and quivering and hanging on for dear life. They knew I loved their suffering. ( in the kindest way of course 🙂)

There are some differences between this horse stance that Daniel is demonstrating and a Kung Fu horse stance. Main differences are 1) Feet MUST be parallel while maintaining knees rotated outwards; 2) Pelvis must NOT be tilted. Quite the contrary. Tuck your bum inwards as much as you can; 3) Back must be completely upright; 4) Thighs should be as close to parallel to the floor as possible, BUT if the stability of the stance is compromised, a slight arch between the legs is ideal. The exercise Daniel is showing is very beneficial for leg strength and mobility, no doubt about it. It's not "wrong" or anything. But an actual proper Mah Bu has many other details to look out for, as it is much more than a mere leg strengthening/stretching exercise.

I started horsetance 5 weeks ago. In the beginning i could only do 1 minute of horsestance per day and the mental pressure it gives is just scary but in hindsight is a blessing because now, i can last for 3 minutes thanks to the mental conditioning it gives. Just know that to those who are starting horstance or deciding to, i urge you to follow this video, effiecient training is key, start small then gradually build your way up. If you do, i'm sure you'll surpass my current record in no time.

I started doing them 2 years ago but then stopped, recently I restarted doing them and build them up to like 50 seconds at max. Consistency is what I'm lacking. It's a great exercise and you reminded and motivated me to hang on to this exercise!

Horse: I look nothing like this 😑

Daaaaaamn Daniel. These videos keep getting better. Not too short. Not too long. Very informative. No irrelevant information to fluff video length. Keep doing what you’re doing.

Is it cheating if my belly is holding the stick?

I came across the Horse Stance recently and now integrated it in my morning routine - I am 58 and work out physically 4x a week - The stance i also integrated in my warm up phase - I noticed a rise in testosterone levels next to more stability and leg strength and as we know, testosterone is beneficial for burning fat and building muscle in males. Last but not least, the mental benefits this brings along - overcoming the burning sensation in the thighs through focussing on breath has meditative qualities - I think the Horse Stance is a perfect exercise for body & mind.

This exercise combines strength, flexibility and mental torture perfectly.

16 year old been doing it for 1.5 months regularly on morning. now able to hold it for 2.5 minutes daily but taking a rest day this week due to deadlifting a tree stump maybe 150 kg 3 reps one time 2 separate reps another time. None of my mates were able to do what I did so it surely works! Brazza

A personal inside from over ten years of martial arts: in martial arts it is important to keep the inside of your feet as parallel as possible to have maximum stability, it is like screwing yourself with your feet into the ground. 2nd: in some martial art school it is or was required to be able to hold the horse stance for at least 20min to start training. 3rd: a variation in martial arts is to hold the horse stance as long as possible and than rotating your one leg until it is straight and you twist your body sideways while keeping the other leg exactly like in a horse stance and if you can't hold this position you switch back, hold as long the horse stance as you can and afterwards switch to the other side & afterwards back to the horse stance again.

The editing in this one feels somewhat diffrent and more charming

Today i just searched how to do horse stance the correct way in the morning, but now you just posted a video, grateful 😊

I just did my first horse stance set First set: three months four days and seven hours Second set: three months six days and 15 hours Third set: three months 8 days and four hours

My mate Daniel with another great video. I remember doing boxing in high school I used to do the "wall sits". one set of 7 minutes was my top, you feel like the wall is crumbling but in fact is you. lol. Now doing this for the first time I was able to do 3 sets for a total of 1 minutes 48 seconds. It really humbles you. Thanks FitnessFAQs.

This is such a great exercise. It stretches really important muscles, strengthens your lower body and has a calming, centering effect.

As someone who used to practice Wushu and then Taichi in the past, I now incorporate Horse stance into my personal training routine whenever there is a leg/lower body day. I never recorded my Horse stance time, but each time I do it, I hold it for 64 slow and deep breaths (approximately 5 minutes). I do it for 3 sets, and from set 2 onwards, I incorporate basic Taichi hand movements while remaining in the Horse stance. After that, I go to do some other strength training before doing deep stretching. Stretching after a long training is really beneficial since your body is already warmed up, you can relax your muscles while slowly ease into the stretch, which doesn't feel as painful as stretching cold muscles, and it reduces the chances of injury too.

my karate teacher used to make us do these. feel the burn like nothing else!

This is an excellent move. I would recommend it in everyone's routine if possible. K boges talked about the horse stance in depth as well awhile back. More perspectives are always welcome. Love your stuff

Just started doing the horse stance recently...what a BEAST of an excercise. My legs would shake like a tuning fork. I'm currently at 75 seconds. I've already seen changes in my cycling. My goal is 180 seconds. Stay tuned! Love your channel by the way. Keep up the great work. Two thumbs up.

Man, your production quality has gone through the roof!! Loved this video! I just tried Horse Stance for the first time - not very wide yet, but far wider than I'd usually squat, and I managed to hold for 30 seconds - definitely gonna keep working on this! Thanks!

Started single set, 4-5Xwk. Started at 1min. Added 10 secs per week. Am up to 3 mins. Goal is for 5 mins but feeling stale I love your suggestions to widen stance, add wt and the 2minX3 sets. Did first one tonight. Male age 60. Most grateful for you sharing.

Definitely one of your best videos in terms of editing and recording.

I'm a Kung Fu teacher and this is the first, most important and foundation of all Chinese martial arts. In the old days they would make new students do only horse stance for a year before they were allowed to take lessons. Okay, a very bad business practice but that was before Kung fu was a business. A 2 to 5 minute horse stance is the foundation to basic health and our grandmaster says it's the No. 1 reason why he's so fit and healthy at 86 years of age. I believe him. I do about 3 minutes a day.

Awesome to see you putting this out there Fitness FAQ ‘s. I began my journey with HS 18 months ago. By las Christmas I was 4.45 seconds. My goal was 5 mins. I was feeling amazing. I’d got over some serious lower back and hip pain after years of trying so many things. Unfortunately I had a massive accident. Falling 30 meters through trees I shattered my talas brake my T9 60% compression and dislocated my right shoulder. Six months later with no surgeries I’m doing rings dips again 8 reps perfect form. Chin ups 10 reps. Horse stance 3.30 mins. I consider the horse stance one of my greatest assets for it’s ability to strength my whole body and help bring back the mental clarity I need to work through a great deal of pain. My flexibility has returned which is pretty amazing. My goal is to be back doing Bulgarian ring dips and finally make it to a five minute horse stance and begin to add weight. I’m 61. The Shaolin monks certain know what they are doing. Including other isomeric holds like frog pose crab pose and planking has been a game changer. Thanks Fittness FAQ’s

Two crucial things: controlled and rhythmic breathing, secondly if you have long legs then your thighs don't need to be parallel to the floor.

Having gotten into calisthenics again after long time (8+ years) due to depression and neglect of my own body after getting back into it for the past 4 months I've managed to gain major strength and control over my body (I weigh 100-105kg at 1.80cm) I can do a weighted horse stance (+21kg) for at least 60 seconds for 3 sets after just trying once today actually feels quite good to do.

Please do more strength stretching and mobility, Daniel. Thanks.

I am 69 i started doing horse stance squats sitting on my bed a few years ago and have progressed to these now with a 10kg kettle bell with my back against a wall there.

Motivation is what gets you started. Habit is what kept you going.

This guy made a video 8 years ago about this, and he looks even younger and fitter today. Insane on so many fronts. Well done.

Thank you Daniel, I have been a dancer in my young days when this was mandatory for most of the dance moves, I didn’t know it was so therapeutic, it raises spirituality for sure!

Horse Stance is so effective because going wide puts your whole hip area in an unstable position (vulnerable) so to speak.. So if you wanna get better at squats and do crazy weights, consider wide stance squats, it will transfer over to regular squats..

There's a branch of martial arts that I train alongside MMA called XMA (extreme martial arts), which mostly involves stunt work. A lot of the things we do derive from Chinese Wushu. It's not really good in a fight, but to put it concisely, it looks awesome. One of the first forms you learn in wushu is called wu bu quan, or the five stance form. The horse stance is the first among the stances, the others being the bow stance, drop stance, sitting stance, and empty stance. It's a form I think everyone in calisthenics should learn. I don't necessarily think all calisthenics athletes should rigorously do XMA, let alone wushu, but all martial artists MUST train in advanced calisthenics.

Bravo!! 👏👏👏😊 I'm really impressed by the amount of messages about doing H.S. I was only able to do it for around 60 seconds each session, but your vid and comments have motivated me to try again, especially JRR737. Thank you all.😊❤😊😊

Thank you for the content you create for us! This stance is great; I practiced fencing for many years and this stance was the only thing our instructor would allow if we needed to "rest" during our training if we got tired. I learned to find it comfortable after a while...

When i was little my dad took me to this guy he knew to train me on how to defend myself because of some stuff happening at school, he trained me for for a few months on how to punch and kick and exercise in general, he had me do this stand every session from what I remember being 30 minutes but it was probably more like a couple mins at a time and i thought it was such BS because he always went on about how good the stance is for my legs. Ive always had a strong lower body and had good flexibility and i now realize the horse stance might have been a contribution 😅 shout out Mr Brown!

Was tha kung fu shoes comment (3:00) sarcasm? I assume so but would like clarification 😅

As someone who is a little bit more active, not much, I could do 2 mins. Which surprised myself. Thanks bro. Finna do them everyday.

I had stage 3 colon cancer and weighed 110lbs, started doing 100 horse stances every morning along with 100 push ups, 100 situps and a 10K run and now cancer free, I'm 9x Mr. Olympia, can jump a mile and destroy alien spaceships with one punch. This shit works 👍

That was the 'punishment' we got when we were in grade school. Little did I know, my "bad behavior" in grade school helped me with flexibility for life!

As someone who’s been practicing this stance since 1999 in traditional Chinese Kung Fu, it’s an essential skill. However your technique isn’t quite there. The feet should be parallel. This locks the stance correctly. Feet out makes it weak and pressure to either side of the leg will easily collapse the stance.

Started doing this a few months ago and am very pleased at benefits. 63yr old lifelong gym and fitness guy.

i can hold it 24/7

you perfectly described the stages i went through whenever I do this exercise. You're mind and body and constantly begging you to stop.

Started adding dead hang and deep squat isometrics to my regular drills. Horse stance iso sounds great...reminds me of kalari. Will def add. Great video!

Fantastic, you did it beautifully. I am doing daily and slowly. Hope I can achived the Horse power eventually.❤❤❤from Malaysia.

5 minutes is as long as I have done this. Working on more at 54.

I held it for 2 minutes in a recent test at age 76. I don't practice it, but do regular weight training in the gym.

Hello Daniel! Could you put the videos with subtitles available? for those of us who do not speak English we can activate the translation function. Thank you so much!

I just started horse stancing 2 weeks ago. I love how I can do it at anytime during the day when I have 5 free minutes. Allows me to get in 3,4 times a day

After a cold shower I get my body temp back up with a horse stance. 10 minutes has been my longest. The key is visualize your butt as a seat. Squeezing the glutes gives my legs burning sensation a bit of a relief. Also the breathing helps extend the stance.

Guys, make sure you warm up before the deep horse stance. I once got my hip hurt by neglecting a warm up before doing this exercise, and it took me several months to recover. Just spend 1 minute doing hip rotations and or any other hip joint warm-up.

Another bonus: This gives a rush of adrenaline without the need to do any fast movements. So any of you that struggle with fatigue and brain fog in the afternoon: Do a set and you'll be surprised how effective it is in pushing you out of a rut.

Heck yeah! Trained horse stance so much while training in the martial arts when I was younger, but honestly haven't trained it enough lately. Going to add in some regular training again. Thanks for the video!

isnt this the sumo stance? horse stance have feet pointing forwards

I trained to 3 sets of 5 minute wallsits to mentally and physically prepare for the horsestance for 9 months. A few months ago I finally made the switch to horsestance and was able to hit 1m55s. That was totally acceptable to me for a first time. And the goal is 5 minutes. Sometimes I only manage 1 minute and sometimes longer again. It really shows how this is a mental battle. I put no pressure on myself to build up the time for this. Also I get funny looks in the gym when people see me collapse onto the floor. The thing with pushing yourself to the limit with the horsestance is that you absolutely cannot stand anymore at all for a good bit after lol

Day 1 - 1.10 Day 2 - 1.13 Day 3- 1.17 day 4 - 1.20 Day 5 - 1.25 Day 6 - 1.30 Day 7 - 1.40 So fricken hard, I found the second I look down at the stop watch, I think my brain starts psyching me out

I personally hold the horse stand for 1 mins & I'll try to increase my hold numbers.💯👊

One of the best Channel about Calisthenics on RU-vid and I think always will be,because your content quality is get better with every video.😁(and already the quality is on another level 🔥)

I’ve held horse stance since I watched this video 3 months ago. I can’t get back out of it. It’s changed my life forever.

I haven't watched your videos in a while and the overall production quality has skyrocketed. Good work!

Weighted stretches is THE way. Cossack squats, uni lateral RDLs and horse squats, pullovers etc, are legendary

Great explanations ! I’m doing this after my ice baths almost every day, but you gave me the best explanations on how to do it in the right way 🙏🏻👍🏻

Omg your integrating the spiritual side👌🏼👌🏼👌🏼 Finally someone who understands🥳

I did my first 3 sets of 60-second horse stances this morning! I'm glad I found your channel, brother!

Banger of a video. The production quality has improved so much since you started putting out videos.

Trained this for Kung Fu many years ago and kept it up along with the other stances - Bow, Cat, Crane & Cross, after a decent stretch out you can get to keep your flexibility gains, watch your foot position should be at 90 degrees to the stance not at 45 degrees gets more tension in the ankles. Forget about trying to chase times, just wear socks on a slippy floor and your legs will be burning real quick.

Perfect demo. The anterior pelvic tilt is spot on. Many kungfu practitioners make this mistake of posteriorly tilting the pelvis. It shuts off the glutes, Psoas/core muscles.

1st 1:17.77 2nd 1:53.29 3rd 2:01.48 Thank you for inspiring me to action. I’ll post again when i get to 5 minutes

As a shaolin kung fu practitioner ‘horse stance’ is amazing. We also use ‘horse stance’ to relax, so instead of seeing it as a strengthening exercise, we can think of it as a way to try and relax our muscles during it… BREATHE

Ive been training legs for a little while, I cant pump out 3x8 pistol squats, I can touch my toes and can deep squat easily and now i'm trying horse stance I shake like crazy after only like 20 seconds

Was the standard pain endurance back in the days for me (20 years ago, now 39yo) when I trained Gong Fu. Remember the monk here in Sweden had no problem sit in Ma Bo for 35 mins straight.

Best way to put it out. I couldn't agree more with the fact that this low wide squat is by far the most challenging there is

Love it, glad its gaining popularity again.

I never tried my max of this exercise, but I set the goao of watching this video on a horse stance and did it. I never practiced it but I can do the splits.

Wonderful and concise words, briskly coupled with enlivening images. Well done. Inspiring!

Hahaha loving the new way of deliver the info, funnier and dynamic but killing it as always💪🏻🔥

Adding this to my exercise regimen, starting with a personal best of 1 min 18 sec

Improving flexibility is a dance of strengthening at end ranges of motion and stretching. Doing some active stretching like horse stance or a wide leg hold to a passive like going as low into a middle split as possible for 30secs-1min can really do wonders. To progress, slowly add weights or increase time. Its only a matter of time before you see huge gains

I'm so glad to have access to content with this much quality and for free! Thank you very much, this was one of the best exercise tutorials I've ever seen :)

I found that the horse stance is the ultimate grounding exercise. Thanks for sharing

Bruv thanks from Turkiye you explained it so well especially the footwork to place your feet helped me tremedously,keep up the good job brother thank you.

Wow! Thank you, you've just got yourself a new subscriber👍🏽

very good ... thank you for the fantstic info

Little piece of advice, I see you point your feet outwards during mabu. In my martial arts (Shotokan karate and Choy Lee Fut kungfu) we learn to point our knees outwards and the toes forwards. Doing so you get the gains in the upper legs, but you also greatly increase the yield in the lower legs. Nice video, keep it up!

Bulletproof is a very bold claim, but i guess the benefits of this cannot be underestimated as well.

not seen your videos for a while. They were already great, the way you communicate and the style of your video is on another level now

Special mention to high production value and new presentation style

First time trying it. Got a minute and 4 seconds. Better than I thought

Holy shit. When he said he unlocked the split in 2 years from just doing this once a week that sold it for me. I have to start doing this.

😄Awsome charisma innovations) I like it. Thanks!

the editing in that video feals so much more dynamic and i really like that alot. but the change of the audio quality every few seconds really put me off. maybe consider recording the voice over with the same set up as ur free speaking infront of the camera