The handstand is the stone soup. You'll actually do a bunch of exercising with no magic handstand at all, and once you're good enough at all of that stuff, you'll get the hand-stand as a bonus. Just like the stone soup is only ready once a regular soup is made without the stone.
Most of your practice and progress is _not_ the hand-stand. It's all of the lead-up. It's like that story about "stone soup":
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stone_Soup
The handstand is the stone soup. You'll actually do a bunch of exercising with no magic handstand at all, and once you're good enough at all of that stuff, you'll get the hand-stand as a bonus. Just like the stone soup is only ready once a regular soup is made without the stone.