--- title: Get Your Sweatpants, Simone Biles Has a Handstand Challenge description: Simone Biles has started a handstand challenge on Twitter, asking people to take their pants off in the middle of doing a handstand. canonical: https://time.com/5819752/simone-biles-handstand-challenge/ author: Sanya Mansoor article:opinion: false article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2020-04-12T19:04:55.000Z article:modified_time: 2026-04-13T08:01:26.093Z og:title: Grab Your Sweatpants, Olympian Simone Biles Has an Amazing New Handstand Challenge og:description: Many happily tried it, but Chrissy Teigen and Ryan Reynolds politely declined og:url: https://time.com/5819752/simone-biles-handstand-challenge/ og:site_name: TIME og:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt675a3419f357a137/698a0cc6096a94f40c6a801c/simone-biles.jpg?branch=production&width=1024&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 og:image:width: 1024 og:image:height: 576 og:image:alt: simone-biles og:type: article twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:title: Grab Your Sweatpants, Olympian Simone Biles Has an Amazing New Handstand Challenge twitter:description: Many happily tried it, but Chrissy Teigen and Ryan Reynolds politely declined twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt675a3419f357a137/698a0cc6096a94f40c6a801c/simone-biles.jpg?branch=production&width=1024&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 ---  # Grab Your Sweatpants, Olympian Simone Biles Has an Amazing New Handstand Challenge > Sponsored content. 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Laurence Griffiths/Getty Images  by [Sanya Mansoor](https://time.com/author/sanya-mansoor/)  ## Sanya Mansoor Apr 12, 2020 7:04 PM UTC World gymnastics champion Simone Biles is challenging you. Yes, she’s challenging you there, sitting on your couch in your sweatpants while socially distancing like a responsible human being. She’s challenging you to do a handstand. The twist: you have to take off your pants with your feet at the same time. Biles, who is probably as bored as the rest of us, [posted her successful attempt to Twitter](https://t.co/D11uhLoG37) on Saturday evening. She seems to have pulled off the stunt with ease as it took her a few seconds, trudging back and forth on her hands, before she removed her sweatpants. > [](https://twitter.com/Simone%5FBiles/status/1249081262939287553) Biles is the most decorated U.S. women’s gymnast ever, with at least 30 World/Olympic medals, [according to USA Gymnastics](https://usagym.org/pages/athletes/athleteListDetail.html?id=164887). Last fall, Biles swept up five gold medals at the World Championships in Stuttgart, Germany, making her the most decorated gymnast [in the championships’ history.](https://www.nytimes.com/2019/10/13/sports/simone-biles-worlds.html) In her tweet, she called it a “handstand challenge,” and quickly found plenty of at-home gymnasts willing to take it up. Many responded with some impressive and successful attempts. > [](https://twitter.com/MakaylaSheahan/status/1249101702919106562) > [](https://twitter.com/Antonio%5FHijano/status/1249327823514480641) > [](https://twitter.com/jorfed/status/1249083276989304833) > [](https://twitter.com/boyd220/status/1249162790998343687) > [](https://twitter.com/kd9822/status/1249162592796454913) > [](https://twitter.com/gabrielleelaub/status/1249160306103902210) Don’t worry if the challenge seems too daunting for you. You’re definitely not the only one. > [](https://twitter.com/yahsiirr/status/1249163816665075715) Chrissy Teigen was not confident in her own abilities to perform the challenge. > [](https://twitter.com/chrissyteigen/status/1249121895510872065) Ryan Reynolds replied with a simple “no” — the same response he gave to fellow actor and Marvel superhero Tom Holland, who tagged him in a similar handstand challenge that entailed taking your shirt off in the middle of the move. > [](https://twitter.com/VancityReynolds/status/1249141408444841984) ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/5819752/simone-biles-handstand-challenge/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/5819752/simone-biles-handstand-challenge/"},"headline":"Grab Your Sweatpants, Olympian Simone Biles Has an Amazing New Handstand Challenge","datePublished":"2020-04-12T19:04:55.000Z","dateModified":"2026-04-13T08:01:26.093Z","description":"Many happily tried it, but Chrissy Teigen and Ryan Reynolds politely declined","url":"https://time.com/5819752/simone-biles-handstand-challenge/","keywords":["Newsfeed"],"thumbnailUrl":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt675a3419f357a137/698a0cc6096a94f40c6a801c/simone-biles.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"Sanya Mansoor","jobTitle":null,"url":"https://time.com/author/sanya-mansoor/"}],"articleSection":"","image":[{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt675a3419f357a137/698a0cc6096a94f40c6a801c/simone-biles.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","width":1200,"height":675,"headline":"simone-biles","caption":"simone-biles","creditText":"Laurence Griffiths/Getty Images","representativeOfPage":true}],"publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Time","url":"https://time.com/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://time.com/images/logo.png","width":528,"height":156},"foundingDate":"March 3, 1923","sameAs":["https://www.facebook.com/time","https://www.instagram.com/time/?hl=en","https://twitter.com/time","https://www.pinterest.com/timemagazine"]}},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"item":{"@id":"/tag/time-section-newsfeed/","name":"Newsfeed"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/5819752/simone-biles-handstand-challenge/","name":"Grab Your Sweatpants, Olympian Simone Biles Has an Amazing New Handstand Challenge"}}]}] ```