Straddle-Up vs Side Split: What You Must Know The straddle-up is a great exercise to build strength for your side split. But remember this: a suspended side split is extremely intense. You are stretching and contracting at the same time, which means you need a lot of strength and active control 💪. When you train your deepest range, passive work often feels better. Relaxing into the stretch allows your muscles to lengthen fully, because a muscle cannot lengthen at its maximum if it is contracted

👉Today's Pose : Samakonasana / Straddle Splits 👉Beginner’s Tips: It's an advanced pose so we get better at it with consistency only. Warming up your hips and lower body be super important Coz you wouldn't want injuring your hip joints or knees Coz it'd take fair amount of time to heal, trust me. ✔️So warm up for 15-20 min at least with the poses we've shares in this challenge, along with Frog Pose if you could (I can't show you Coz it's not in my practice with this big babybump, but Google can

Something a bit fun for any of you guys who can comfortably sit in a straddle, or working towards middle splits! This is a great flow to move through the 90/90 position, and challenge your flexibility. Always great to have exercises to flow between to build strength through your ranges. Throw it into your warm ups or 5 minute flows! // Filmed at Focus Strength ✅ Want to know how to start your journey with us to become strong and flexible?? 😉 Or Flong & Sexible as we like to say 🌎 Join 50,000 p