WARMUP: I usually jog for around 5 minutes, then do 40 jumping jacks, 30 high knees, and 20 high skips... wierd routine haha but it works for me :) In between each of those sets, I try to go as far as I can to touch my toes.
Then I do each of these, for 30 seconds each, usually only 2 reps. I do them in this order but it might not really matter:
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| Toes my toes! I do a lot of reps of this in between the other stretches. |
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| I also do this one, holding 30 seconds to the right, left, and middle. |
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| Butterfly stretch! I usually do my standing touch-toes again before the sitting stretches. |
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| I sit in a straddle position and hold each toe for 30 seconds. |
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| Sit in a straddle and reach for the middle, hold for 30 seconds |
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| Sit with legs together and reach for toes- OWWW! |
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| Not sure what this is called, but I call it the Caterpillar! It's for back flexibility. |
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| This was shared with me by someone on skating forums- it's also for back flexibility. :) |
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| Lunges- in both directions to stretch hip flexors :) |
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| Jazz splits- although I do these with my hips squared, so the front of my back thigh is touching the ground. I think this stretches hip flexors and back. |
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| And then, of course, the splits!! I obviously can't get this far, but I go down as far as I can and hold it. |
And that's all the stretches I do every night!! I hope some of y'all found this helpful... I'll be putting it in a post as well as a tab :)
