streching

[gojuchad]

hey everyone I am 25 and have been traing for about 12 years I have never got a split yet but I am about to go to Japan to train and really want a split before I go or else it could be really painful ha ha. does anyone have any tips that might help I ahve really been hitting it hard for the last few months and am getting closer but I could use all the help i can get. Thanx.

[Musse]

This seems to be a good site, http://www.bath.ac.uk/~masrjb/Stretch/stretching_7.html#SEC73

 

- Musse

[gojuchad]

thanx musse that is some good stuff

[Musse]

Yup, no problem. Actually I could start doing those exercises as I've always been jealous of people who were able to do splits.

 

- Musse

[Logan]

By no means an I a stretching expert. I will just tell you what worked for me. I could get pretty far but eventually got to a sticking point where it seemed like I was going to go any farther. What I started doing was watching TV in the stretch. I would stretch as far as I could at the beginning of a sitcom. At each commercial I would go down to each knee and then to the middle. Then I would try to get my legs to go farther apart. I would not try to push any farther until the next commercial. It took a month of a couple times a week but I finally did it. One more thing. I found if I stretched in the morning even if it was just for five minutes I could make better gains in the afternoon than if I didn't stretch that morning.