Flexibility stretches for beginners: Improve your flexibility with these stretches!!

[@sidpaulson1]

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[@renderwood]

I wrote text notes for myself because the video is difficult to follow when you are doing the moves. 1) Neck hold (10sec each side): back, front with hands, look left/right, sides with hand 2) Rotate around to both directions 3) Hold arm below chin to opposite side (lock with other hand) for 30sec 4) Same thing but tighter (grab behind your neck with the locking hand) 5) Move your wrist behind your head fingers pointing down (hold elbow with other hand) 30sec 6) Same thing but extend the movement (hold from biceps with the other hand) 30sec 7) Rotate both hands full circle of movement at the same time, 10x forward & backwards 8) "Table"-stance, hands and legs on the ground extended, belly up straight, 30sec or 10x up&down 9) Knees on the ground, butt upwards, face&hands on the ground, 30sec or 10x up&down 10) On all fours, fingers pointing sideways, move torso sideways 5x each side and hold there for 2-3s 11) Legs and pelvis on the ground, held your head up & watch the sky, having hands extended in front of you, hold 1min 12) On all fours, arch you belly&chest up & down, 5x 13) Sit, knees in 90-angle, hold your feet with your hands, your body between your knees, hold 30sec 14) Sit in shape of L, legs connected on the ground, grab your hands as far from your legs you can, hold 1min 15) Squat as deeps as you can, legs wide apart, shoulders between your knees, hold 1min 16) Stand legs wide apart, bend your fingers/hands/elbows down to the ground, play with different variations 1min 17) Swivel Hips, sit on ground legs on 90-degree angle, swing knees to the ground on both side, 10x reps 18) Pike progression, stand legs together, told hands on the ground, extend/flex knees one at time & together, 1min 19) On your knees, stretch your hands on the ground in all 4 directions, 20sec/each

[@jediknight77]

Cannot wait to try this and become more flexible over the next few weeks! This is exactly what I was looking for.

[@sidpaulson1]

I'm glad that you found this helpful. Good luck with your flexibility training :)

[@sidpaulson1]

Hello, may I ask how your flexibility training has been going?

[@joseh2791]

This is great! I needed a good stretch video and I'm going to practice these more often! Thanks again!

[@sidpaulson1]

+Takun Hernandez Thanks Takun! Hope you will find the routine of use, good luck with your training 👍

[@happysharkable]

thank you ! will try to perform this routine every morning.

[@sidpaulson1]

That's a great idea!:)

[@cgastonmorales]

Really good!! Thanks a lot for your work Sid!!

[@sidpaulson1]

Your welcome :D

[@gaussandres1988]

Brilliant! I really need to improve my flexibility and likely I will use this workout

[@sidpaulson1]

Awesome. Hope it works well for you!😄

[@Thebusysuperhuman]

Thank you ! Great channel

[@sidpaulson1]

Thank you busy Super Human!!

[@Marco-dj9zf]

I really like the video, will you keep on making this kind of tutorials? that'd be very cool. greetings from Spain 😁

[@sidpaulson1]

Thanks, glad you enjoyed it. Yes I will make more videos like this one. Thanks for tuning in :)

[@sidpaulson1]

I was a bit inactive for a while, back with videos now though!:)

[@compops]

Nice routine and good presentation! I will try to incorporate some of the stretches in my own routine. Good work and keep it up! :) If you have the possibility, tutorials/routines for handstands and compression work for L-sits would be awesome :) Cheers och tack!

[@sidpaulson1]

+Johan Dahlin Thanks Johan, glad you enjoyed the video. That sounds great! L-sit och så vidare kommer också snart, jobbar så mycket jag kan :)

[@compops]

Suveränt :) Det ser jag fram emot!

[@sidpaulson1]

Compression video will be coming soon!:)

[@keylanogueira9084]

oi meu nome é Davi eu vejo tds os seus vídeos e prático seus exercícios e sou apaixonado por vc

[@sidpaulson1]

Sorry, no english?

[@MegaMusical10]

Fantastic video, thanks!

[@sidpaulson1]

Thanks my friend!

[@chichogavela9078]

I Love your work and your videos. I follow you in IG and learn a lot from you. Thank you so much, you are one of my heroes ; )

[@sidpaulson1]

+Ramon Romero thanks for the support man. I am glad to be of service :)

[@cjs83172]

I recently stumbled onto your channel and did the stretches in this routine, and I can say that it's a workout onto itself. One of the problems I had with the ones where my feet were on the ground in a sitting position is that my feet always slip, so trying to keep my feet from slipping when I tried those was even more of a challenge. I probably like the shoulder and hamstring stretches the best. I've always had a problem with tight hamstrings, especially the right hamstring, so I figure these will help that quite a bit. I also know that when my shoulders are fully stretched out, I can bring my arms over my head from one side to the other without letting go of my hands, and find that fun to do.

[@sidpaulson1]

Yes that can sometimes be a problem, just need to find an anchor for the feet or a better surface to do them on. Happy you enjoyed the routine, please check out some of my newer flexibility videos too! :)

[@cjs83172]

I've seen them, and your flexibility is top notch, which it has to be for someone in your line of work.

[@stevenmadrid8965]

Great video!!!

[@sidpaulson1]

Thank you very much :D

[@parkourfreerun6931]

Year man cool please more and more for hamstrings

[@sidpaulson1]

+Parkour Freerun Sure thing. I will do more specific videos on different muscle groups soon! 👍

[@oabominavelsiridasneves1924]

HEEY man, Nice, really useful and i'll defenitely be doing it on my off days from bsketball to keep my mobility I was very used to gymnastics and stretching thing, so I can do over splits And v-sits... This is really interesting to me, and your routine was pretty developed. Short, simple and effective I suggest to you, that you keep doing this tutorials... They will help me a Lot like begginner, intermidiate and advanced for flexibility, strength, rings, bars, paralettes, skills, presses and so on I already subbed to our channel. You have an amazing potential Thank you

[@sidpaulson1]

+b boy Hey buddy. Awesome, glad that you liked it. I will definitely keep going with the tutorial/progression videos since that is the most requested subject :) glad to have you as an subscriber, look out for new video coming this Friday 👍

[@oabominavelsiridasneves1924]

SidFitness thank you for answearing, I will keep tuned

[@ChArLiNi94]

Nice routine, will start working on my flexibility with this tomorrow. Could you make routine(workout) videos in the future or some tutorials about V-Sit and Press to handstand(straight arms)? Thank you

[@sidpaulson1]

+Charlie Thank you, glad you enjoyed the video. The exercises varies in difficulty, but focus on the exercises that suits your level of flexibility! Yes I plan on doing that, will probably be in a couple of weeks! 👍

[@ChArLiNi94]

Thanks man, keep the work up! I will let you my thoughts on the routine after I get some time training it.

[@happysharkable]

Charlie i

[@lautaromalmierca1719]

Algo tarde, pero voy a realizar la rutina de ahora en adelante a ver qué tal😁

[@sidpaulson1]

Thanks for watching!

[@arthurjaunatre1713]

This routine is awesome, thank you so much. Can we do it in the morning, just after waking up ?

[@sidpaulson1]

Thanks Arthur, yes that's perfectly fine :)

[@madssrensen9883]

Really good movie

[@sidpaulson1]

Thank you :)

[@frangiew9076]

Thank you Sid.....but can you change that music to something easy on the ears and concentration

[@sidpaulson1]

This is a plenty old video haha.

[@rb345-q1s]

Love this but sad you didn't include any hip flexor or gluteal stretches.

[@MrAlimtc1005]

Amazing video, keep it up! And a question, how many times do you repeat that drill? I often hear that each stretch exercise should be repeated twice for Max effectiveness.

[@sidpaulson1]

Thank you very much :) I like to do 2-3 sets per exercise, depending on which exercise and how poor my flexibility is in that particular skill!

[@MrAlimtc1005]

Thank you for the answer! :D

[@FrancescoMarchioni]

Thanks for this great video Sid. Pardon a question: for those who are still far from reaching the pike (chest to leg), is it better to touch chest with 1 leg bent (and work on straightening the leg), or work on pushing the chest to straight legs (maybe with a weight that forces you extend more) ?

[@sidpaulson1]

Thanks for watching Francesco! It would depend on how flexible you are. Just make sure the leg/legs (one or both legs) are completely straight when you work on your pike. It’s a bad habit to bend the legs, and reduces the effectiveness of the stretch! :) Using weighted stretches are very good!!

[@maor260]

NEED WARM UP FIRST?

[@sidpaulson1]

Yes, it's always a good idea to warm up first!!

[@tomggabin5838]

This video of this man is a classic example of how appearances can be deceiving. If you saw this man in public, you'd swear he'd never exercised in his life. There is little apparent muscle development and tone, but clearly he's got the stuff. I'm not sure if this illustrates something rotten about youtube and life or not, but I suspect...rotten.

[@sidpaulson1]

Performance has 0% to do with appearance.