box splits

daryldolittle · February 23, 2003

can any ones suggest a good stretching routine that will help my achieve the box splits (toes and kness pionting to celling) as this is the only thing stoping me cuz i never know where to start with my hams or my groin plz any stretching routine or tips would be very helpful

Looneyas · February 23, 2003

I have been doing this one for 6 weeks

Morning stretches Dynamic stretchs every morning

that involves 5 sets of leg raises to front and back side around 10 each.

If you search using a search engine on dynamic stretches u will get massive amounts of info.

At night i do Isometric stretches

300 Kicks to bag as a warm up (Thanks kickchick im so sore from that warm up works a sweet)

The i have a pully set up so i can do Isometric stretches for my side splits and it works i have good pressure, Then i do calf stretches then my hamstrings this is by a chair and chest on leg, Then u push leg down to get a good Isometric stretch.

Thighs and hips are left.

This is a very hard nightly stretch routine but with care and the correct warm up, It wont take long , My gains in 6 weeks are amazing. I am doing log of every day when i stretch on how i feel and progress.

Best advice is learn to look foward to stretching and enjoy it.

( search on Kickchick topic as she has a wealth of info, helped me out heaps and i know she will help when asked. )