i do alot of exercise but find im very tight do u recommend anything for stretching?
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Focus your stretching on muscle groups the same way you target muscle groups in your workout.\nAlso, spend more time on cool down than warm up stretches.  They are more important.
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Practicing every day is one of the best things you can do. Soon you will be a lot closer to the ground. At first, it will hurt really bad and you won't go very far, but in a few weeks you will see improvement. \n\nDon't force yourself to go down, you will hurt you muscles really bad.\n\nPractice stretching in a pike stretch (feet together in front of you, put your nose to your knee). Also a good stretch is to have your legs spread apart like a triangle and touch your toes. One more stretch that helps is the butterfly stretch. Put the bottoms of your feet together with your legs bent. Put your hands on your feet and bend forward. \n\nAt first, you will feel a tremendous amount of pain! But in about a month, you should have your splits!\n\nGood luck!
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Are you  doing any stretches?   Stretch only to comfort, not pain.\nFace a wall.  Put your hands on the wall.  Bend your right knee,keeping that foot flat on the floor, and stretch your left leg backwards, also keeping foot flat on the floor.  Hold for 20 seconds.  Repeat on other side.\nSit on the floor.  Spread your legs out in a V.  Lean over your right leg.  Hold for 20 .Lean over your left leg. Hold for 20.  Lean to middle.  Hold for 20.
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sounds like you need to stretch more, you are pulling ligaments inside of your nana, it's not bad, but if you strecth alot, and it still doesn't help, you could be pulling the ligaments/tendons from their connection points on the pelvis
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hi, u must be siiting too long, do some stretching...
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Why, is your weight too tight??\n\nLoose is the opposite of tight.\nLEARN TO SPELL.\nThe word you want is spelled L-O-S-E.\n\nExercise more, eat less.  Spot reducing does not work.\nAnd learn to spell!
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to get tight "body" the only exercise seems logical is a combination of sit up and push ups...try suiting yourself to the number of times you can do..if you can do 50,make it 50...if you can do 100, make it 100..don't cut down on your food...eat like a human..do not OVEREAT...try doing as many session as possible in a day..then you'll have a tight body
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Just keep practicing your touches often during the day and they should eventually get better the more you practice. If you have a trampoline or access to one than practice on there.-Don't forget to stretch beforehand-it helps.
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In time,  the Ligaments and Muscles will adapt to the stretching exercises.  Allow 24 yours for the  Muscles and Ligament to adjust to the stress of stretching. In reality, the Muscles are Torn and and require time to repair. A normal affect of Exercising.\n\nPlease do Pre-stretching exercises prior to the split exercise.\n\nYou should do a complete stretching prior to focusing on the demands of a Split.\n\nThe fact that your Inner Thighs are experiencing discomfort is a good sign, They are being worked.\n\nMany of us can suffer sprains and strains doing work outs.\n\nIf you go slow and gradual, I am sure that you will accomplish the Split that you desire.\n\nGood Luck......and Stretch to the Stars....smiles.\n\nChow, Billy
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If you are not used to exercising, you have to be careful not to hurt muscles, tendons or ligaments.  Start out with stretches, isometric, range of motion.  One really good start is to hold your hands out straight as if you were going to fly, like the wings of an airplane.  Lean back as far as you can without pain.  That helps stretch.  If you have an office chair, lean backwards on it, put your hands behind your head as you do.  Yoga is excellent like the other responder said but please warm up before you do anything.  I don't know if you are male or female but for women they have posture bras that help pull your shoulders back, for men they have just strap type supports.  Try to start sitting straighter like in the car, press your back against the seat and try to sit up straight for when you drive.  If you practice sitting up straighter a few minutes each day and increase it, pretty soon you will be sitting up most all the time.  Same with standing.  Try standing against a wall, shoulders touching the wall.  Another good stretch is to sit on the floor and lean forward to touch your toes with your body pressed as close to your legs as possible.  You need to tone up the rhomboids I'm betting along with trapezius, and levator scaps.  You need to start out with the stretches though to stretch the erectors (muscles close to the spine) to relax them.
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Start with little stretches each day. 30min a day It's not nessacarily easy to just become flexible in a short amount of time your body has to become trained
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you need 2 stretch alot. Everyday in the morning stretch for a good 20 minutes, and at night for 20 minutes.  No cheating!!!Hold each stretch for at least 20 seconds.
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Do lots of stretch exercises at least twice a day and drink lots of water.  8 glass per day.
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Stretching- streching is important to have a good flexibility, try streching programs like yoga \n\nexercise- exercise lets your muscle breath oxygen, which in turn help the streching cuz the muscles will work efficientsly!\n\nget out- don't crawl on the desk and watch tv and computer all day, it will make your muscles stiff and small, and again the best solution is to exercise,A LOT!
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try using soft wrist braces..during yoga and after try to put ice on them for no longer than 15 Min's that should make ur muscles get used to that type of binding
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It's good that you are remembering to stretch! Many people don't which results in pulls muscles and more.\n\nA little run or jog, lunges, and toe-touches on the ground (reaching for your toes while legs are stretched like a triangle, or pike stretch, reaching for your toes, legs together) are great to warm up your legs.
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warm up with more stretches...