#exercise references

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How to Work up to the Splits

These are stretches for helping to work up to do the splits. The following stretching routine is tailored specifically to the purpose of achieving the ability to perform both front splits and side splits. It consists of the following...

even if Irish dancers don't need their splits, these exercises should prove extremely useful for the flexibilty we do need for those high kicks. and it would just be fun to have splits. so.

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8 Stretches Your Tight Hips Are Begging For

Tight hips seem to be a common problem for almost everybody — from runners to cyclists, from deskbound bloggers to dancers. Give this area a little extra love with this sequence of eight hip-opening stretches to increase your flexibility, reduce

These are the hip stretches I have been doing to work on hip flexibility and hopefully improve my turnout! I really like the pigeon one and the very last one, where you sit cross legged but with your legs stacked on top of each other.