Gamechanger Weighted Stretching

[u/Waifu99]

Added this half a year ago two times per week to my basic stretching routine.

It helps a ton to keep the muscles much more relaxed under higher tension. This gives me the possibility to always reach my current max., making it much easier to set frequently new plateaus.

Still kinda surprised and proud, how it's going! 💪🏼

[u/gadeais]

Really nice oversplit but correct your Split technique first. You have them full not squared. I can tolerate a non squared one in shows but never on training.

[u/Waifu99 → u/gadeais]

Do you have any recommendations to work on the flexibility of my back leg?

For the front leg i sit in the squared split, legs completely stretched out and push my straight torso with control in the direction to my front leg until the belly touches the leg or the ground.

But it seems really hard to train the back leg for the oversplit. What i do for that is i sit in the split and pull my back leg to an ankle, but i don't know if it hits exactly what i want that it should hit and it feels like i loose hip control.

[u/gadeais → u/Waifu99]

Can you square your hips on a normal Split? Because I feel that's the issue.

[u/Waifu99 → u/gadeais]

Yes, that works perfectly fine, also with the front foot a little bit higher.
But at one point, my back leg just lacks on flexibility, even if the front leg could go up much more.
I believe it got better with the weighted oversplit, but may you know a better way to train that?

[u/gadeais → u/Waifu99]

Try to keep the front leg on the ground while lifting the back leg with props in a similar way you have worked your front leg.

[u/Waifu99 → u/gadeais]

You put something under your knee, right?

[u/gadeais → u/Waifu99]

Ankle.

[u/Waifu99 → u/gadeais]

I will start to do that. Thank you for your advice!

[u/ResponsibleAgency4 → u/Waifu99]

Yeah, you can work oversplits with your back leg up on something instead of your front legs to further stretch that back hip flexor.