How To Do The Splits Quick

How To Do The Splits Quick


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In this VideoJug film, professional dance teacher Melanie Kay from City Academy, London, gives you her expert tips on how to prepare your body to do the splits. Melanie demonstrates some useful stretching exercises that will help warm up your muscles so that you can quickly do the splits. Enlarge In this VideoJug film, professional dance teacher Melanie Kay from City Academy, London, gives you her expert tips on how to prepare your body to do the splits. Melanie demonstrates some useful stretching exercises that will help warm up your muscles so that you can quickly do the splits.

I'm here to show you how to do the splits quick. So, what we need to do is lots of stretching. You need to make sure that your body's really warm, maybe after you've done a bit of aerobic work or you've been in a nice warm bath or at the end of the day and you've been moving around a lot.

Your muscles have gone nice and warm and supple and then you need to start with some stretching. Okay, so now that we're on the floor, we can begin our stretches. Okay, so first things that we're going to need to do is simple nice flowing elastic movements, so just stretching down the legs, keeping it moving and soft as you stretch down towards the knees and you want your nose to get closer to your knees with each one.

You stretch away and stretch away, and you can do this with pointed feet or with flexed feet. You can reverse the arms as you go down and again throw the hands over the legs and try to get the nose on the knees. Other stretches that you can do is then to take hold of the legs or as close and as low down as the legs can get and hold it there for maybe 3 to 5 minutes, all the way down, and then we can stretch each leg individually.

So, we need to again go further down onto the floor. So, take it onto your back here, you can keep one leg straight for the time being, extend the other one up to the air, grab hold of the calf or the thigh or both and you pull the leg back towards you and you want to draw that leg in and pull in the leg. Again, you can flex and point the foot and circle the leg around because that helps just ease off the stretch a little bit and pull the leg closer and closer.

Again, a few minutes on each leg, and then pull that leg in, flex and point, circle the foot around. If you can, straighten the other leg and extend and pull the leg back. And then from there, we take it into the split.

So, we come up onto our knees, extend one leg forward, hands by the foot, then from there, slide the leg backward and extend the leg forward. Hold it as far as you can and slowly drop down into your split as you go. And that's how to do the splits.

With a lot of practice and perseverance, we can get ourselves there. But there's no quick solution. .