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Split
If you really aren't flexible at all, and you strech every day for 10-30 minutes, how long, approximately will it take for you to be able to do a split? I do straddle streches, lunges, pike streches and hurdler streches daily before and after exercise. If there are any streches that will help me get it faster it would help. I'm 14/f if it helps. Thanks!
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Really the only stretch that helped me to get my splits was simply sitting in them. I sat in each split right and left for 4 minutes each a day and my middle for 5 minutes a day (my middle was much worse, haha).
And it took me about 2 weeks to get my right and left down all the way and about a month and a half to get my middle all the way down.
It's going to hurt at first but to pass the time I always just listened to my ipod full blast and if I was alone I would sing along. It just makes you forget about the pain.
And to elaborate on the previous answer, it's going to do a lot more good doing wall sits if you get ankle weights. The fabric ones with changable weights that velcro onto your ankles.
Then the added weight will help you go down further. I wouldn't do more than 10lbs on each ankle though, that may damage your muscles.
I hope I was helpful and good luck getting your splits.
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10-30 minutes isn't going to take you far quickly. I am a ballet dancer; I take five two hour classes a week, and a lot of what we do involves flexibility. It took me probably one to two months to be able to do as split. Do exercises to work your hamstrings.
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Another thing to do is your straddle stretch against a wall so your feet touch the wall and you can lean against the wall to work those muscles. Another stretch like that is to lay on the ground, as if you were going to sit on the wall, so your butt is right against the wall. Open your legs into a straddle and the weight of your legs will stretch you.
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