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Hamstring Flexibility Tips – How to break through a flexibility plateau

Hamstring flexibility is, without a doubt, one of the most sought after goals in dance, circus, gymnastics, yoga, many areas of the fitness world, and even martial arts. While traditional, static stretching will improve hamstring flexibility to begin with, most people will hit a plateau. If you’ve been stretching for awhile, but not getting the […]

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Pancake mobility and straddle splits

Flexibility training / Robin Holland

Are you struggling to progress your straddle splits training? (Or middles splits or whatever you want to call them…) Adding active mobility drills is the best way to push through a flexibility plateau. Active flexibility drills involve using the strength in your muscles to move through your range of motion. This builds strength in what

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Middle splits training – Part 2

Flexibility training / Robin Holland

Middle splits – or centre splits or straddle splits, whatever you want to call them – can be notoriously hard to achieve. If you google middle splits training, you will come up with a long list of techniques to try. Some of these methods can be useful, but most are pretty ineffective. Unfortunately, there are

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Middle splits training

Flexibility training / Robin Holland

DON’T DO THIS !! Trying to force yourself into the middle splits is not only painful, but puts you on a fast track to injury. Adductor muscle strains and hip pain are problems I commonly see as a result of some risky middle splits drills. In fact, middle splits training is notorious for all sorts

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Eccentric training for strength and flexibility

Flexibility training, Training Tips / Robin Holland

Eccentric strengthening exercises can be an extremely effective way to improve both strength and flexibility – at the same time. Unfortunately, it is a tool that is very often overlooked, so much so that most dancers don’t even know what it is. What is eccentric training? Eccentric exercises are the activation of a muscle during

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Overstretching

Flexibility training / Robin Holland

Do a quick internet search about dance, flexibility, and stretching, and sure enough you’ll get countless hits showing pictures of dancers in amazingly bendy poses and articles about how you can achieve this incredible flexibility. However, many of these articles suggest using some pretty extreme – and very unsafe – methods to get you there.

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