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How can you learn to do the splits and backbend?

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splits
you cannot just do splits straight away you have to practise. you will be able to go further when you have warmed up. i learnt the splits by doing a lunge before i did it and then going down as far as i could, to get better you must go far down enough so that you can feel quite a lot or a stretch (and pain) you must then stay in that place for 1 minute (anyless and you will go through the pain but have no gain) you should do this regularly or as often as possible. eventually you will find that you are able to go lower down and after maybe 2 months you will be down :)
back bend
again as with splits it helps if you warm up first, a good stretch to warm your back up is to lye on your front and put each hand either side of your stomach and push your self up so that your legs are on the floor but your hands are holding the weight of your body up so that your back is in a curve. a way to get down into a bridge using a wall. once you are more confident using the wall use it less and less till you are going back into a bridge by yourself
hope this helps

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