How to do Middle Splits - Stretching and Flexibility Program
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INTRODUCTION
Welcome to the EasyFlexibility Strength & Flexibility Splits Training Program!
We are going to start this book off with a question that is most likely the first question you have. Why are there different levels? Why are there different programs, beginner, intermediate and advanced programs? Shouldnt there be one program for all splits or for all hamstrings or for all hip flexors? Why are there separate programs?
To answer that question, EasyFlexibility programs are completely different from everything you have tried before. These are programs that have been practiced, put together and changed many times to get the perfect programs. Thousands upon thousands of people got their results fast and safe with our programs. So, our programs are tested.
What we found after teaching our programs to people of different levels and ages, and different ability levels, is that there are different challenges in terms of which muscles prevent the increased range of motion at different angles.
So, a beginner for side split whose angle is under 135 degrees will have different challenges than someone who is intermediate or advanced. -Because, Easy Flexibility programs use proprietary Zaichik Stretching Techniques, each muscle is isolated and each muscle is stretched fast and easy using the Zaichik Stretching method.
Isolating each muscle allows us to focus specifically on the need of the person at that level. Doing stretches that do not benefit that person at that level only wastes time, energy and recovered resources. Recovered resources means the following: Once the body has to adjust to an exercise whether it is stretching or strengthening, it takes some resources to adjust and to heal. The more muscles that are trained, the slower the progress because there is more adjustment.
In other words, if you are working on a bench press or pushups, you can also do dips and you can also do shoulder presses. However, this will put effort and take away energy from the muscles. This is not optimal for a specific goal. Lets say that your specific goal is to increase the number of pushups or to increase the amount of weight you can bench press. And to do that you decide that you will also do dips and shoulder presses while training for your ultimate goal. While, in theory, dips and shoulder presses would help you, in practice they would actually slow down your progress!
So, in practice it is best to focus on the specific goal, and this is exactly what we do with our programs. The reason they work so fast and get you the results that youre looking for, is because we focus on a specific goal and once achieved, move on to the next goal. This is the reason that thousands upon thousands of people worldwide achieve their flexibility goals fast, safe and easy. Again, it is because of doing many things at the same time and seeing no progress, we focus on one thing at a time and get you the results.
The next logical question you may have is, what is this Easy Flexibility system and what are Zaichik Stretching Techniques?
In short, Zaichik Stretching Techniques are muscle isolation techniques, where one muscle is stretched at a time. Because, remember, if youre working on any skill, whether it is a split, forward bend or back bend, one muscle can prevent your whole body from doing that skill.
So, besides isolating one muscle at a time, Zaichik Stretching Techniques use a principle of target and leverage. In short to understand this, any muscle has more than one movement that it does. For example, your Hamstring extends the hip, it also flexes the knee. It also assists in rotation of both hip and knee depending on the position. So, you can see the muscle does more than one action.
Zaichik Stretching Technique utilizes the fact that when the muscle moves and gets elongated as one of its actions, and then comes back to normal range, there is a little bit of space to stretch the muscle easily and without pain.This is what allows the practitioner of the method to see instant flexibility results!
Each Zaichik Stretching Techniques, ZST for short, has a special name such as ~Integrity~, ~Peace~, ~Content~, ~Equilibrium~, ~Balance~ and so on. The EasyFlexibility system is a well-developed system that been shaped over many years of practice and observation and through primary and secondary research.