How I Stretch

I usually stretch every day if I can so I don't lose my middle and right splits. I'll be honest, that currently I'm working towards my right splits again because I lost them after not stretching for the two days after getting them.

I've realised that I haven't been warming up before stretching so I'll be adding sit ups and planks to my rhythmic gymnastics stretching and strength daily routine.

Keep in mind I have no idea what the actual names are for most stretches.

What I've been doing currently however starts off with sitting down, bending my right leg into a triangle position and bending forward so my torso is parallel with left leg.

Then I change the position of my torso so I'm on my side. Then I do those two things with my right leg with my left leg bent.

Afterwards I do butterfly and do it as far as I can (which is as far you can in butterfly). Then (I know I really shouldn't because I pull a muscle) I go into middle splits as far as I can and count in a very unique way.

I tend to count a lot faster than a second a number when I'm in "pain" so I now count differently:

2001, 2002, 2003, 2004 ... 2017, 2018, 2019, 2020.

I count that way so I'm only doing each stretch for approximately 20 seconds.

After doing twenty seconds of the middle splits, I do a forward lunge for my right splits. Then I go as far as I can and count from 2001 to 2020.

After doing my splits stretches, I work on back flexibility. I lie down on the ground on my stomach than I push myself off and back as far as possible while keeping my legs and lower torso to the ground.

Then after twenty seconds, I do a bridge as a long as I can before I get tired and exhausted.

After doing my back flexibility, I return back to splits stretches and go as far as I can into each splits.

With my middle splits however, I work on over-splits by placing my left foot on the edge of the couch and go down as far as I'm comfortable with.

And that's how I stretch every day!

I will definitely start warming up before I stretch now though!

- Colour Fluff