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How to Start Stretching: Tips for Beginner Flexibility

How to Start Stretching: Tips for Beginner Flexibility

6 tips you can use if you want to become more flexible but don't know where to start

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How to do the Wheel Pose Backbend

How to do the Wheel Pose Backbend

How to find the muscles in your legs, hips, back, and shoulders that make wheel pose comfortable

Kristina Canizares
Kristina Canizares
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Want Better Backbends and More Flexible Hips? Square Your Splits! Here’s How and Why…

Want Better Backbends and More Flexible Hips? Square Your Splits! Here’s How and Why…

Square splits are an essential building block for more advanced contortion poses

Kristina Canizares
Kristina Canizares
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You Can Be a Bendy Badass with Any Body Type

You Can Be a Bendy Badass with Any Body Type

Flexibility training does not require you to be skinny

Kristina Canizares
Kristina Canizares
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Gratitude as a Training Tool: Praise over Punishment

Gratitude as a Training Tool: Praise over Punishment

Flexibility training requires vulnerability. Shame is a terrible tool for coaches and students of stretching

Kristina Canizares
Kristina Canizares
Butt Muscles! What Are All the Different Butt Muscles and How to Build Them

Butt Muscles! What Are All the Different Butt Muscles and How to Build Them

The butt has 13 different muscles and they all need their own strengthening exercises

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How to do a Standing Backbend with Maximum Control and Grace

How to do a Standing Backbend with Maximum Control and Grace

This backbend technique builds core strength and protects your lower back while building maximum back flexibility

Kristina Canizares
Kristina Canizares
The Curse of the Bendy Lower Back

The Curse of the Bendy Lower Back

Why lower back flexibility can lead to back pain, tight hip flexors, and other chronic tightness

How to Get More Flexible from an Injury

How to Get More Flexible from an Injury

Injury recovery is an opportunity to build more strength and flexibility in the long term

Dare I Hope? Can Anyone Become More Flexible?

Dare I Hope? Can Anyone Become More Flexible?

How to get more flexible even if you aren't flexible now

6 Tips to Make the Dreaded Middle Split more Bearable

6 Tips to Make the Dreaded Middle Split more Bearable

How to do a full middle split without pain through targeted strengthening and mobility

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Tight Hips? Alternatives to Rolling out Your IT Band

Tight Hips? Alternatives to Rolling out Your IT Band

Rolling out the iliotibial tract is painful but not necessarily helpful. Other techniques can better improve hip flexibility

Kristina Canizares
Kristina Canizares
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