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hree turnout position pictures

Dancers! Is your uneven turnout causing you pain, injuries, and decreased performance?

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Uneven turnout in ballet or in various styles of dance, means that one hip is able to rotate outward more than the other.

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A woman overwhelmed by different full body stretching techniques

Full-body stretching routine for flexibility

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How to stretch all the muscles in your body in one training session. Is this even possible? Full-body stretching routine for flexibility. How to stretch all the muscles in your body in one training session. Is this even possible? There...

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One young woman doing a frog split and another young woman doing a side split

Frog Splits: Do Frog Splits Help with Middle Splits?

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Frog splits. Do these splits help with the middle split? The short answer is that the frog splits will help you with a middle split, but doing a frog split does not guarantee that you can do a middle split...

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a woman lying in bed stretching before sleep

Stretching before sleep. Yes, or no?

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Stretching before sleep. Yes, or no? It is important to understand what this question is asking. This is not a question about whether stretching before sleep is beneficial to your flexibility. This is a question about if stretching is beneficial...

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two muscle animation pictures doing a side split

Flexibility Training Program: Is it most beneficial standalone or with other fitness activities? [Case Study]

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When I do my EasyFlexibility programs can I also do other fitness programs in one training session, at the same time? The question that often comes up is “When I do my EasyFlexibility programs can I also do other fitness...

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A compilation of standing side splits

Standing split. What is it and how to do it?

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Standing split. What is it and how to do it? A standing split refers to any position where the legs are in a 180-degree line from each other or the hips are opened 280 degrees and the person is standing.A...

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Side Split Muscle Animation

Side Split: 9 Flexibility Training Mistakes. What Is Preventing You From Getting Your Full 180 Degree Side Split.

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Flexibility training mistakes you are currently making that are preventing you from doing a 180-degree side split. What is preventing you from getting your full split? Is it the training frequency? Improper warmup? Random flexibility training? Or is it something...

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A figure Skater doing a layback spin on ice

Layback spin in figure skating: Technical Breakdown.

Posted by Paul Zaichik on

Layback Spin in Figure Skating: Technical Breakdown. Layback Spin, is a Figure Skating technique that closely resembles an Arabesque or a Back Attitude in Dance. Let's take a look at biomechanical and kinesiological breakdown of this technique. By bending backward,...

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