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Hello, I am Paul Zaichik, Founder of ElasticSteel Method of Athletic Conditioning.
Today I will Show You One Stretching Technique That May Bring You Closer To Your Side Split.
This is a stretching reciprocal inhibition technique that a lot of you have been asking about.
The Side Split With Toes Up.
Is sitting with you feet in front of you as in stretching sit and reach flexibility test
And Horizontal extending into the stretch or horizontally Abducting your legs
To 180 degree split ok
So having the strength in horizontal abductors
Will Help to relax the horizontal flexors or adductors
For Horizontal Split Straddle
Which are primarily inner thigh muscles
So how do we do it
There are number of ways to facilitate stretching and I will show you two.
Start by squatting down
With your legs stretched as wide as possible And contract the outer thigh muscles.
If you don’t know what to contract, Place your hands here. Press forward in direction of adductors.
Which ever muscles contract back.
Those are the muscles you are supposed to contract.
For these stretching exercise.
Second one is a wide horse stance.
Toes are out 180 degrees, not everyone can Do this splits exercise.
if you do something like this and you knees are falling in
Trying the stretch by rotating the toes out And knees are falling in.
Don’t do it.
It’s not a stretching technique for you
It’s a more advanced side split stretching technique.
Never place your hands here, you are just helping the Muscles you want to train or stretch.
You want to place your hands here And press forward
Or release.
Once the muscles here that you want to stretch, release
Bam, Straddle or Side Split
Ok
What I am going to do now is do stretching
Splits and flexibility that are long
And make them in shorter format
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