How can I become more flexible?
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I don't know why, but I'm just not flexible at all. I've been trying to become flexible for about two years now and I haven't seen much improvement. I'm a little bit discouraged. I wanted to join cheerleading freshman year (i'm in eighth grade) but now I'm not so sure. I'm not flexible at all, why is that? Am i just never going to become flexible? I also don't have a lot of arm strength so I feel I might not be able to do backhandsprings, etc. I just really want to be flexible but I feel like I'm hopeless. Any ideas?
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Answer:
Flexible is a hard thing to master. I've been taking ballet and yoga for 7 years and I still have to stretch and work hard. Dont get discouraged. Your muscles are like taffy, you know, the candy. You have to pull (stretch) slowly so it doesn't break. It will come. Try just sitting on the floor with you feet stretched out and reach your toes. Keep you knees straight. Stretching should NOT be comfortable :) You should fell a pull, but never a sharp pain. Sharp pains are bad. our muscles and ligaments are like rubber bands. the more you stretch and use them, the looser they get! Keep trying, dont ever ever ever give up. Either you do it or you dont! Its one of those all or nothing deals. Keep trying!
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Exercise. Do yoga every morning and night... Thats what I do everyday and now I can do splits and touch my head with my feet.. etc.
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Workout and do yoga
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Here are some stretches to help you work on your splits/flexibility. For the straddle--lay on your back with your butt against the wall. Extend your legs up the wall and then let the fall into the straddle stretch, gravity will help pull your legs down. Hold as long as you can. Repeat a few times. Also when you are doing your normal stretching in the straddle position, right before you are done stretching, lean forward into the middle and then try to pull through the stretch. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-MhiIL6Aojo&playnext=1&list=PL796002DA6BCB9B15 (watch around the 15 sec mark for what I’m referring to) For the other splits--lay on your back, bring a leg into your chest, hold a few seconds, then extend it. Grab your leg and try to pull it as close to you as you can and hold it, repeat a couple of times bending the knee and extending it. On the last extend, while holding your leg, roll over into the splits. Repeat on the other leg. These 2 will need another person to help you---stand against a wall, lift your leg, have your friend lift it as high as they can. And hold it as long as you can. Both knees should be straight. The goal is to touch the wall with your foot (I could do it 20 years ago and now I'm back to with a foot of the wall after 3 years of dance and I'm 33) Repeat with other leg. Next lay on the ground and have your friend push your extended leg towards the ground. Same idea as the stretch above, but it works the muscles in a slightly different way since you are in a different position. One last stretch which will help your splits (and your arabesque penchee). You will need to find a blank spot on a wall and grab a chair. Now facing away from the wall and holding onto the chair for support, take a leg and slide it up the wall like you are going into splits. Hold it for as long as possible then switch legs. Try to keep your legs straight. As you work the stretch move the chair closer to the wall until you are touching the wall in a vertical split. One note—you can also try to do some of the two person stretches solo, by moving into a doorway and working one leg up the frame or down the frame depending on what you are trying to stretch. I just tried a few doorway stretches for the first time and I was able to put my foot against the door frame and got a completely vertical split in the needle position. This link is so you can see what position I’m talking about. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C8yJ4NeuT4k As long as you don’t rush and push yourself too fast, you can really make progress fast. Make sure that you really work both sides as evenly as you can. I never really worked the left leg and it's no where near as flexible as my right. I have had my right split for about 20 years, even when I wasn't exercising I could still do it. I never had my left, at my best when I was young, they were about a foot over the ground, now at 33, I can get all the way down, I just need to get myself square and straight so a little more pushing myself and I’ll have them. Keep working and you'll get them.
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