What are good stretches to become flexible? for like splits and high kicks and stuff.?

Question

I'm really tight and stuff. i can just barely touch my toes

Answer 1

ok. Lay on your back with  your feet facing the wall. Scoot towards it till your butt is touching the wall and put your feet up and apart letting gravity pull down. If you do this everyday gravity will pull as far as you should go until you can do the middle splits =)

Answer 2

Practice touching your toes. Each time, try to go father. Then sit in the butterfly position and take the heel of your foot and stretch it. So it's like a heel stretch only you're sitting down. Then put the foot while holding it infront of you then with your other hand (the one not holding the foot) take the foot so it crosses your body.

Answer 3

to practice splits go down as far as you can go and just work on it every night.  also try putting your feet infront of you and bend over and try to get your nose to touch your knees.

Answer 4

basically you can do the gravity stretch where your butt is up against the wall and you spread your legs out so gravity is the one pushing them down, you can do the stretch where you open your legs as far as you can and just keep pushing yourself into the wall, or the best way is to just sit in them every day. for high kicks do a lot of kicks whenever you can

Answer 5

have someone pull your legs hard enough to pull your legs out of your hip sockets.  Then you'll be able to move them any d**n way you wish!  

Answer 6

For getting side splits, sit down on the floor with your legs in a V. Choose one leg (for example, we'll just our left), and fold it behind you. You should basically be in a position that is similar to a split, only with one leg folded behind you (if you are a dancer, you'll know this as a 'jazz split'). Now, you should lean forward on your front leg, reaching for your toes. You can hold that, and then lean forward to the front, and afterwards, hold leaning backwards on your elbows. Each of these positions stretches different muscles necessary for your splits. Once you have your splits, high kicks will be simple. Once you have held each of these positons, you can try going into your splits and holding it as far as you can go -- just don't go farther than you can handle or bounce in your split position, you can pull a muscle.